Training Archive: barbIn the 31 days ending 2008-05-31:
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Saturday May 31 | ||
| Note | |
| 7/17 | ||
Friday May 30 | ||
| Bicycling 45:00 [2] | |
| Left from home at 5 am for the airport; I'm heading to Chicago for a conference and to visit my parents. I decided to try biking to the airport. I'd contacted MassBike and Logan and discovered that there are bike locks at terminal A, so I decided to give it a go. With the harbor and all the rivers, you have to go way around on a bike, and you get to go past a big power plant, lots of tanks, and a bunch of fruit and vegetable wholesalers. Very bumpy roads along there. Two of the bridges are metal grates. I didn't study the map well enough before starting and so got off track once. Here is the route without my mistake. But anyway, it worked! The bike locks are nice - they provide extra cables - but unfortunately they are exposed to the sky and I think we're expecting some rain during the 5 days I'll be away. My backpack was way too heavy due to me unnecessarily bringing my laptop. | ||
| C • Impressed 9 | ||
| Bicycling 58:00 [2] | |
| To Boston for a conference; to work in the middle of the day and back to the conference; and again to work in the evening. | ||
| Walking 1:15:00 [1] | |
| around chicago, with luggage. mccormick place is *big*.
7/17 | ||
Thursday May 29 | ||
| Running 30:00 [2] | |
| 5:30 am. Around the neighborhood, listening to science podcasts. | ||
Wednesday May 28 | ||
| Bicycling 38:00 [2] | |
| Work, Boston.
Eva Ruutupold says her sister-in-law runs a really nice B&B in Estonia. Unfortunately it's in the northeast corner (Voka); Tallinn where I'm likely to fly in to is in the northwest, and the hash house is in the south. Ah, but she says Estonia is the size of NJ and you can get from one end to another in a couple hours. | ||
Tuesday May 27 | ||
| Bicycling 40:00 [1] | |
| Work, then park-O through a downpour. Fun weather today. | ||
| Orienteering 30:00 [3] | |
| Fresh Pond CSU park-O
6/17 | ||
Monday May 26 | ||
| Note | |
| 6/17 | ||
Sunday May 25 | ||
| Note | |
| Spent much of the day visiting with my friend Moira whom I met when I lived in Scotland during high school. Her son is in a nearby soccer tournament this weekend; we watched a game. I gave them a tour of MIT, and brought along neighbor Rachael, who likes older kids, and spent the tour inciting the two other 4th/5th grade girls to tease the two high school sophomore boys. Laughter and high jinx; not sure how much of the information about MIT I had crammed ahead of time sunk in.
Random photo: Mom and our VW camper. We traveled around Europe and into the Soviet Union in the summers of 1968 & 1969, on either end of a school year spent in Montpelier France. Dad was on sabbatical from teaching high school. 
5/17 | ||
Saturday May 24 | ||
| Event: US Team Trials | ||
| Orienteering 50:00 [2] | |
| Alternating memory legs with Dave at Boojum while Isabel's birthday partygoers built little play spaces in the woods. | ||
| Yoga 20:00 [1] | |
| Bicycling 6:00 [1] | |
Friday May 23 | ||
| Note | |
| My mom will turn 75 on June 3rd. I'm collecting reminiscences. Here's one from my high school friend Mike, and some photos I pulled from our family album:
Dear Jan, Happy 75th birthday. As the subject of one of my earliest songs, People in Airports (See Stan, With Jan, Hand in hand, Waiting for the airplane to land [granted, its no Moore Christmas poem]), my first impression of you must have been as a traveler. The view was likely influenced by the photo I saw of young Barb riding a camel, with pyramids in the background. Though I was certain that it was somehow taken at the Park Forest Kresges with the desert backdrop, I was assured that it was a real camel and real pyramids. In 1981 you welcomed me on one of your family trips to the boundary waters. I remember wearing a bandana and not shaving for a week, carrying canoes, bears, setting up a tent every night, cooking food (or did I do the dishes?), and other activities that add up to a once in a lifetime experience. When I think of you I think of: lemonade on Oswego Street, math, seeing you at my wedding in Champaign, your teaching overseas, seeing you in Nahant, and the glue that holds the Moore Family together. Thank you for letting me be a part of your family experience. Love, Michael 
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| C • Did I know 3 | ||
| Bicycling 8:00 [3] | |
| Note | |
| 3/17 | ||
Thursday May 22 | ||
| Bicycling 8:00 [1] | |
| 5/17 | ||
Wednesday May 21 | ||
| Bicycling 1:00:00 [3] | |
| work, Franklin Park. Weather on the way to orienteering was fun - very dark and stormy in some places, and I rode out of it. Gusty winds and lashing raindrops. On the ride home I was zoomy: 4.5 miles in 20 minutes including lights and a slow start in the park. | ||
| Orienteering 42:17 [3]3.5 km (12:05 / km) | |
| Note | |
| 4/17 | ||
Tuesday May 20 | ||
| Bicycling 8:00 [1] | |
| 5/17 | ||
Monday May 19 | ||
| Bicycling 16:00 [1] | |
| weight:139lbs | ||
| Stair climbing 3:00 [3] | |
| 8/17 | ||
Sunday May 18 | ||
| Bicycling 2:30:00 [3] | |
| To the Blue Hills and back. Back was trickier because there was a parade on Blue Hill Ave so I got side tracked and a bit lost from time to time. | ||
| Orienteering 1:27:49 [3]5.8 km (15:08 / km) | |
| red course at Houghton's Pond. Nice course. Yay Saegers!
I tried to push it. Beat Dave, who had some errors. I got my "speed" points for today - I've done the speedwork if I can feel my pulse in my face, and my face stays red for hours. | ||
| Note | |
| 9/17
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| C • my... 4 | ||
Saturday May 17 | ||
| Bicycling 2:10:00 [2] | |
| weight:141lbs | ||
| 7/17 | ||
| C • Way to go! 14 | ||
Friday May 16 | ||
| Bicycling 8:00 [1] | |
| 1/17 | ||
Thursday May 15 | ||
| Running 40:00 [1] | |
| Bicycling 8:00 [1] | |
| Note | |
| 3/17
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Wednesday May 14 | ||
| Note | |
Mom and Doug | ||
| Note | |
| 5/17 | ||
| Bicycling 8:00 [1] | |
Tuesday May 13 | ||
| Bicycling 12:00 [1] | |
| So. I have been having a major problem with setting - no, with implementing - my goals. Several times now I've said, OK, that's it, I'm starting (going to be sore all the time, or lose weight, or whatever). It's not working. I may have been convinced that it would work because in the past I have been successful at sticking to a plan (remember the alphabet?). But now I'm having a really hard time with it. I thought about it a lot and I believe it's a combination of having a lot of stuff going on in my life, and trying to change too many things at once. So I came up with a new plan. An easier (at first) plan. I call it the boiling frog plan. Here it is.
There are 17 or 18 or so weeks until the rogaine in Estonia. So I made a list of 17 things I want to do, or to not do. (Like not eating sugar, and going to bed by 10, and exercising, or being a calm, fun and upbeat mother the ENTIRE day.) For this first week, each day I have to check off at least one of those things. It could be any of those things - a different one each day if I wanted. On the second week, I have to do at least 2 of the 17 things each day. By September, I would be doing all 17 things every day! But it's easy right now. Really easy. Deceptively easy. I can indulge a bit (a lot) but not feel at all guilty about it. And I should be able to stick to this plan at least until July!! Which is much longer than I've stuck to any other recent plan... | ||
| C • The Plan 12 | ||
| Orienteering 36:26 [2] | |
| CSU sprint at Hammond Pond.
I don't know where my compasses are, so went out with a cheap compass we have for the kids to use. I found it discombobulating. Isabel, David and Amisi did the beginner sprint. I was glad that they all came; they've not wanted to do orienteering lately, often. David started after the girls, caught up to them and passed them, which was extremely cool, since the last CSU sprint he did, he quit part way through and complained a lot before, during and after. | ||
| Note | |
| 0/17. Whoops. | ||
| C • Well, now you really have t... 4 | ||
Monday May 12 | ||
| Bicycling 8:00 [1] | |
| Note | |
Mom, Aunt Luray, Aunt Connie and Uncle Dave. | ||
| C • I see the resenblance... 1 | ||
| Note | |
| Join, or Die | ||
| C • Join, or Die 1 | ||
| Note | |
| 1/17 | ||
Sunday May 11 | ||
| Strength 15:00 [1] | |
| Shoveling dirt and lifting bags of gravel. I can feel it in my lower back, but I'm not incapacitated.
We put in a raised bed, and filled a bunch of containers, to grow food. The raised bed is in a relatively shady spot, so it will get perennial herbs and maybe some lettuce. The containers get the sun. | ||
Saturday May 10 | ||
| Bicycling 1:00:00 [2] | |
| through Boston to the ocean, and back. | ||
| Running 27:00 [5]5 km (5:24 / km) | |
| weight:139lbs | ||
| PR for a 5k race. (The only other one I ran was with Izzy & Rachael last year, and we clocked around 42 minutes.)
Mile splits: 9:02, 8:37, 8:37, then :42. Got to the start/finish 18 minutes late, as the first runners were finishing, because Isabel couldn't find her soccer cleats as I was trying to get out the door. I eventually caught up with the walkers, and weaved through them, which was a lot more fun than just running. My right knee hurt later in the day. So it's clear that running aggravates the knee, in contrast to biking - in the past week, I have biked 3 hours in a day without a problem. But when I went biking later in the day after running this race, it got to where I felt the knee twinge even when I wasn't using it to power the bike, just moving it along with the pedal. | ||
| Note | |
| Turning protein folding into a game. | ||
| C • Foldit 2 | ||
| C • 5k... 2 | ||
| Bicycling 25:00 [1] | |
| to work, then to school to make sure that Renato and Geoff found each other in the packed Willy Wonka audience, then home past the grocery store where I picked up some cucumbers (for yogurt-cucumber soup), and salmon (but with hesitation as I know that buying some or all salmon is ecologically incorrect but never remember the rules), and a Cook's Illustrated (with a yummy poached salmon recipe that turned out really well). | ||
Friday May 9 | ||
| Bicycling 30:00 [2] | |
| Boston, Cambridge | ||
Thursday May 8 | ||
| Note | |
| Watched Primer. Brain hurts. Dave found a great timeline graphic for the movie. | ||
Wednesday May 7 | ||
| Bicycling 8:00 [1] | |
| Wednesday afternoon club: gardener Daniel worked with the girls to make paper with seeds embedded in it for Mother's Day. He also talked with them about transplanting the seedlings we started 3 weeks ago.
Last week he taught us how to make yogurt, which he likes to make from raw milk: 1. Put about 2Tbs starter into each clean quart jar (starter is any plain yogurt with live cultures; for store-bought, I like Hawthorne Valley, but theoretically you only have to buy once, after that you just use a couple scoops of your previous batch of yogurt) 2. Heat up milk to boiling (the hotter, and longer you heat it, the thicker the resulting yogurt in general--though if you want it as thick as store-bought yogurt, you need to add some dry milk powder or gelatin at the same time you throw in the starter). 3. Let milk cool to ~110F (I don't measure, I just stick my finger in... if I can keep my finger in for 5-10 seconds without being burned, it is cool enough) 4. Pour milk into clean jar with starter, tighten lid and shake once or twice to mix 5. Incubate yogurt without disturbing for 6-10 hours (the longer it sets, the sourer it gets; the temperature should ideally be 90-100F, sitting in an oven with the pilot light is perfect; the yogurt will be really runny, like 'drinking yogurt' if it gets disturbed much during setting, I think the protein structure that develops is really fragile) 6. Put in fridge to halt fermentation, you can add any flavoring if you like at this point. He also makes his own biodegradable laundry detergent: 1 oz glycerin soap, grated 0.5 cup borax 0.25 cup washing soda 2 gal water heat soap in some water (~4 cups) until it melts without boiling. fill bucket with hot water from tap, mix in soapy water well. stir in washing soda until dissolved. add borax and stir until dissolved. optional: add a few drops (~5-10) of essential oil or a 2-3 Tbs Dr. Bronners liquid soap for a flavor sensation. let sit. use about 0.25-0.5 cups per load... | ||
| C • yogurt 5 | ||
Tuesday May 6 | ||
| Bicycling 2:45:00 [3] | |
| Early morning ride through Somerville, Medford, Melrose, and Stoneham to Wakefield and back. Perfect day - 45F when I started and sunny and lovely for the return trip. People were friendly. | ||
| Orienteering 25:00 [1] | |
| DNFed on a sprint.
Bit of a low point, really. Later, had to deal with an emotional phone call about kid visitation. May end up needing to pull out of the one pre-Estonia rogaine I'd arranged to do. That's OK - rogaines are hard. Feeling quite fat and generally lame. | ||
| Note | |
| Watched the movie "The Squid and the Whale" which I was afraid would be hard to take but wasn't, and was particularly a propos after the evening's conversation. | ||
Monday May 5 | ||
| Note | |
| Looking into camping for the Team Trials; found that one convenient campground is clothing optional. The kids will *not* be into that. | ||
| C • Hickory Run 4 | ||
Sunday May 4 | ||
| Orienteering 2:49:01 [3]10.4 km (16:15 / km) +360m 13:51 / km | |
| Blue course. Took it very slowly. No ankle twists. Drank lots of water and so had about half a dozen pit stops. Very much enjoyed this course. Tried to go fairly straight for the most part, since I was going so slowly.
Isabel was very reluctant to run a course because she feels very out of practice. But she did white F12 on day 2 and did fine - came in 2nd in her age group I think although for some reason her result is not listed on the website. I found it amusing when we were discussing her big error that she was so disappointed about, and it cost her all of 2 minutes. | ||
Saturday May 3 | ||
| Event: West Point A-Meet | ||
| Bicycling 35:00 [1] | |
| Around Cambridge. Breakfast at Toscanini's with Mike, Mike, Khing, Ning and Cindy. So nice to see my college friends! | ||
Friday May 2 | ||
| Bicycling 1:10:00 [2] | |
| To Arlington and back. Lots of traffic because Harvard Square was closed due to underground explosions. Flames shot up through manholes. Quote of the day: "We weren't trying to extinguish it because we weren't sure what kind of electrical volts were running through there." (There are different kinds?)
I had water instead of alcohol at the bar yesterday afternoon, and no coffee this morning. I feel groggy. Ate a lot at dinner, but not sugar or wheat. | ||
| C • volts 2 | ||
| Bicycling 50:00 [2] | |
| Brookline, Boston, Cambridge. Afternoon & evening. Suspended my (no) caffeine and sugar diet due to needing to have some brainpower at a Very Important Meeting. One transgression led to another and before long I found myself chatting up a State Department analyst and watching three women lovingly mud-wrestle while slabs of steer studded with butter knives roasted slowly over the coal pit behind me. | ||
| C • transgressions 4 | ||
Thursday May 1 | ||
| Bicycling 35:00 [2] | |
| weight:141lbs | ||
| Saw a car pull over toward a bike ahead of me - he was OK - but pissed.
Weight is with clothes & shoes on the way out the door this morning. | ||
| Note | |
| Today I decided to start eating/drinking more healthfully. Not only am I heavier than I'd like, but my heart arrhythmia is beginning to creep back into my life. And I'm feeling kind of depressed. But maybe that's the fact that I (a) have a job and (b) have too many things hanging over my head that I have to get done.
So today I did not get my usual coffee & muffin at DD. Instead I had eggs, fruit, cottage cheese and OJ. By lunchtime I was really sleepy from the lack of caffeine. I nodded off during a seminar and decided that I needed to bike home and take a quick nap before my next meeting an hour later, or else I would embarrass myself by falling asleep during the statistician's presentation. Unfortunately, my watch alarm no longer seems to wake me up (important to know for rogaines, not that we tend to sleep during rogaines any more). So I was embarrassingly late for the meeting. I still feel groggy. I am proud that I also avoided the free peanut butter cookies. Next task is to decide whether I'm going to avoid having a beer at a little celebration this afternoon with my colleagues. | ||
| C • Coffee 3 | ||
