Training Archive: barbIn the 7 days ending 2007-06-09:
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Saturday Jun 9 | ||
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| Woke up awfully late (7 am) from a rogaine nightmare. Nothing was going right. Inefficiencies, lost maps, sitting around not doing anything, forgetting to bring the right backpack, Peter having tachycardia, helicopters overhead dropping firebombs... There were hundreds and hundreds of controls. We found just one during the whole dream. I do remember that in the dream I looked at his head to see just how it was misshapen. It wasn't. | ||
| C • :-) And I thought I had anxie... 1 | ||
| Bicycling 40:00 [2] | |
| to grocery store, then school where izzy is having a sleepover, then home. Heard an accident on the way home and turned around to make sure someone called 911 and that everyone was OK (they seemed to be). Saw the emergency vehicles a few minutes later, heading toward the scene. Otherwise, a very nice morning. Hazy but cool. | ||
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Last soccer game of the season. Awesome game - unbelievably fun to watch. The girls have come a long way from the days when they'd all bunch up on the ball. The team has excellent footwork and passing and goal-tending (all of which is why they're so fun to watch); what we missed this season were regular power shots on goal.
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Friday Jun 8 | ||
| Running 20:00 [3] | |
| It's a nice day for a white wedding | ||
| C • I'll bite 6 | ||
| Yoga 45:00 [1] | |
| Nice to get back to this. | ||
| Bicycling 5:00 [1] | |
| Work to City Hall for the ceremony, followed by coffee at 1369. I'll post photos after the parties have had a chance to notify families etc. Unless they object.
And to add a little extra spice to the day, I saw Rosstopher on a corner, looking vaguely around for a good coffee shop! I pointed him at Mariposa. Apparently he's doing some experiment in a building near my work today. | ||
| C • Ross standing on the corner lo... 1 | ||
Thursday Jun 7 | ||
| Bicycling 20:00 [1] | |
| home school work. Gorgeous cool sunny breezy day. Rode through H Sq where parents and grads and cops were amassing for today's ceremonies.
Met with Judy Richards, Isabel's teacher, in preparation for Monday's trip to the woods with 35 4th-graders. This is the trip where we'll be ostensibly studying erosion as well as orienteering. | ||
| C • onstensibly 4 | ||
| Bicycling 20:00 [2] | |
| To school to talk to the kids about Monday's field trip, then back to work. Izzy and I did a little skit to illustrate what the teams will do in the woods. I made up a 5-step sequence of questions, kind of on the spot, so they're probably not ideal - but the class took them pretty seriously and memorized them:
1. Is the map oriented? 2. Where are we now? 3. Where are we going? 4. How are we going to get there? 5. What will we see along the way? Went through H Sq again. Earlier the grads were separate from their families; now they were intermingled in small groups containing one graduate and several family members, and the graduates were looking proud and happy. | ||
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| New treatment for poison ivy is in the works. | ||
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| Giovanni told us about a map he had made near Trento, Italy. It sounds like a great map; they're putting on a big meet on it late in September. It's on a slope, and if you get to the top of the slope (just off the map), you come to a 1000-foot cliff on the other side that people base-jump off of. There are signs posted suggesting that you not jump off here if it is your first time, and also listing the names of the people who died doing it. | ||
Wednesday Jun 6 | ||
| Bicycling 36:00 [3]7.4 mi (4:51 / mi) | |
| To Bolton Engineering, somewhat uphill. This ride was possible due to the work of Giovanni, who showed me how to patch a tire last night when I got home from the airport. Thanks, Giovanni! | ||
| Hiking 50:00 [2] | |
| Setting out controls for David's 6th grade class trip.
I met the class at the Oak Grove T station. I gave them street maps to get to the nearest trailhead, and the Middlesex Fells trail map to get onto the O map. Then they did a white course to get to the lunch spot. After lunch, the four teams divvied up the off-trail control locations; each team of 3 or 4 kids got 5 controls. At each control was an envelope containing a puzzle piece. When we came back together, they put the puzzle together to figure out where to find the "treasure". I prepared and printed the maps this morning. So now I know that by waking up at 4:45 a.m., I can do everything starting from scratch to be ready by 9:30 to deal with a bunch of kids at a Boojum event. And that included a Dunkin Donuts run and a bike ride (and help setting out the controls). Their total time from subway station back to subway station was 9:50 - 1:10 = 3:20. Let me document this more carefully for future reference: 9:50 - meet at subway station. Divide into groups. Call the missing parent and try to help her find us. 10:00 - walk to woods 10:23 - arrive at start of Boojum map; find the missing parent 10:32 - first group out on the white course 10:42 - last group out on the white course 11:02 - first group arrives at white finish (lunch spot) 11:25 - last group arrives at white finish 11:31 - first group out on puzzle-O 11:41 - last group out on puzzle-O 12:00 - first group finishes puzzle-O 12:43 - last group finishes puzzle-O 12:46 - walk back to subway 12:59 - stop for a minute to find treasure 13:10 - enter subway station While setting out controls, I got a call from a parent who wanted to pick his kid up smack in the middle of the orienteering. Okaaay... So I told him where to park his car, and I left him a map under a rock so he could find us at our lunch spot. That worked fine. 
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| Bicycling 35:00 [2]6.5 mi (5:23 / mi) | |
| To work from Oak Grove T stop. A truly fine day to be playing hooky. Cool, breezy - great for biking in. | ||
Tuesday Jun 5 | ||
| Running 18:00 [1] | |
| Short run before the meeting started at 8... | ||
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| This was my last trip to DC as a FASEB board member. I went to Capitol Hill today. We traveled from the board meeting to downtown DC in a rented bus that was decked out for bachelor parties, with a bar and black leather and leopard skin, and a huge mirror on the ceiling. It was funny to see the staid important scientists in this decor.
On the way the bus passed the courthouse where Scooter Libby was being sentenced. Too bad all the people that should have been sentenced weren't even charged with anything... We first visited Republican representative Dan Barton from Texas to thank him for his support of the NIH and work on the NIH reauthorization bill. Then we met with the chief policy staffer for Democratic Maryland senator Ben Cardin. That was pretty interesting, with some energetic back and forth on an issue a colleague of mine was concerned with. | ||
| C • Too bad we're in Iraq too, whi... 3 | ||
Sunday Jun 3 | ||
| Event: NEOC - Nobscot | ||
| Note | |
| I'm going to DC for a meeting tomorrow (Mon) & Tue. | ||
| C • DC 2 | ||
| Orienteering race 1:24:00 [3]6.5 km (12:55 / km) | |
| Nobscot. | ||
Red - Splits | ||