Training Archive: barbIn the 7 days ending 2006-12-30:
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Saturday Dec 30 | ||
| Running 1:44:00 [2]8.75 mi (11:52 / mi) | |
| From Spouting Horn to Wonderland. Then from Central Square home. | ||
| C • nice run 10 | ||
| Running 1:10:00 [3]5.4 mi (12:57 / mi) | |
| Ran at "energy conservation" speed to the Bicycle Exchange, where I was able to talk knowledgeably about the bottom bracket and convince them to fix it... But that meant I had to jog back home again too.
The problem with the bike the other day was that a spoke broke. | ||
Friday Dec 29 | ||
| Running 20:00 [1] | |
| to the point before the commute in to town. | ||
Thursday Dec 28 | ||
| Note | |
| Dear Diary,
Mom and Dad invited 4 of their friends over for dinner on Christmas. Over appetizers there was some discussion about whether Arthur Miller had actually served any jail time, or how he got out of it, when he was indicted on contempt of Congress charges. At dinner the conversation turned immediately to politics, and we sized up a dozen Democratic presidential and vp candidates, and their wives. I liked how the women at the table were keenly aware of what political/intellectual talents each spouse would bring to the office. Then, they mentioned Laura Bush. Great hair was all they had to say. Plus some speculation on what could possibly bring her to stay with that guy... It turns out someone wants to interview Aaron on film about his interview on his MLK Jr experience, which I guess I should find out more about sometime... Dave went through a bunch of my dad's killer scrapbooks and pulled out all sorts of information about family traits, history & so on. Well, I guess I should log my "training." | ||
| Bicycling 15:00 [1] | |
| I set out on my first bike ride ever from Cambridge to Nahant, which I think would have been about 18 miles on the route I was to take. There was lots of traffic and I hit many lights. The bike was still making those clunking noises in the bottom bracket. After I went under 93, there was a big clunk and the bike did this weird braking thing like anti-lock brakes on-off-on-off. I dismounted and decided that the bike was unridable. I thought about how cell phones are occasionally useful. But I don't have one. I soon realized I was two blocks from the Sullivan Square T station, and took the train to Wonderland, leaving the bike behind.
Did a few desultory leg lifts later, in Nahant. Wrote it off as a rest day. | ||
| C • Women & their men 3 | ||
| Note | |
| Much as I think it would be hip to find sappy stuff vomitous, I am really a sucker for romance as a genre. When I was a kid, I really liked the LIW series book in which Laura and the Wilder boy go for sleigh rides and there are a lot of big blizzards. So you can imagine my delight at the Little Romantic House on the Big Snowbound Prairie story we have developing on the sf/kissy logs. Blizzard's comin'... When they run out of pizza, will they have to start eating the seed grain? When they run out of fuel, will they have to burn the furniture to heat the water for those hot showers? | ||
| C • And will they be featured in t... 5 | ||
Wednesday Dec 27 | ||
| Running 38:00 [1]3.0 mi (12:39 / mi) | |
| (sick) | ||
| Bridge circuit.
My back, at the base of my neck, hurts when I run, maybe from the pounding of my recent jogging. I tried to run carefully without jostling. Sometimes I worry that I have a disk slipping or something. Still have that sore throat. Hoping the bug doesn't travel down into my chest. | ||
| Note | |
| "Rogaine Mind" training: Mom and Dad had a copy of Mother Jones lying around and I perused the article about a guy who drives in such a way that he gets way better mileage. The results are striking - twice the mileage, or better. | ||
Tuesday Dec 26 | ||
| Running 24:00 [1]2.1 mi (11:25 / mi) | |
| early, before heading to O'Hare. | ||
| Running 59:00 [1]5.1 mi (11:33 / mi) | |
| Ran with Dave to the Museum of Science, but Body Works was sold out. So we ran to Kendall Cinema, but the next movie was Mel Gibson's Apocalypto, and I wasn't up for that. So we ran home.
On the way home from T F Green airport, we read excerpts from a book Dave got from my brother Doug for xmas, called "Off the Map", about all sorts of explorers. Amundsen, Scott, Whymper, Lewis & Clark, Magellan, Shackleton, etc. I considered logging it as "Rogaine Mind" training. I like reading about the few explorers who did what they did with grace and little or no loss of life. Like Amundsen, and Lewis & Clark. And I guess I also find fascinating the gruesome stories resulting poor planning, stupid decisions and bad luck. Or good luck. Shackleton's story is a good one, with all its chapters. I hadn't before realized he set out at the beginning of the first world war. The occasional news of his adventures was a welcome break from war news in the papers. But when he got back, his lecture circuit didn't draw the crowds that it would have pre-war - people now had their own stories of suffering and sacrifice and didn't need to experience it vicariously. | ||
| C • Off the Map 8 | ||
Monday Dec 25 | ||
| Running 1:13:00 [1]6.5 mi (11:14 / mi) | |
| (sick) | ||
| Ran in the Sauk Trail forest preserve alone this time, so slower. Saw two deer, a cardinal, and a dead raccoon. Stopped to stretch a couple times - lower back is a bit sore.
I can remember when returning home for Christmas meant temperatures in the teens, a keen wind, and snow. No longer. | ||
| Running 59:56 [3]6.5 mi (9:13 / mi) | |
| (sick) | ||
| Same route, with Dave. Saw no deer, only a dead kitty and lots of live squirrels.
Hey, I ran half a marathon today! Slower than molasses, and in two chunks, but still. AP helps get me going - notice the sudden uptick in activity once I got a little feedback. | ||
| C • Nice 1 | ||
Sunday Dec 24 | ||
| Running 1:15:00 [3]7.1 mi (10:34 / mi) | |
| (sick) | ||
| To the forest preserve from Mom & Dad's house. The woods seemed eminently orienteerable, especially at this time of year. Dave ran with me, and slipped on some black ice and fell. | ||
| Walking 30:00 [1] | |
| To church and back, past Blackhawk Elementary school and the Tower Plaza. | ||