Training Archive: barbIn the 7 days ending 2007-07-14:
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Saturday Jul 14 | ||
| Hiking 12:00:00 [3]17.0 mi (42:21 / mi) +2333m 18:27 / km | |
A leisurely Presidential Traverse. 6 am to 8 pm, with a couple hours of stopping along the way. Lots of up and down. Route. Wore light hikers, or trail running shoes. The scrambling over big sharp scree hurt the bottoms of my feet after a while, but I did not get any blisters. By the end, the soles of my feet were so exquisitely sensitive that there was a real difference in pain level between a nice flat rock (bad), and packed dirt (better). Good HTFeetU training, and some nice distance, 6 weeks out from the Laurentian. No FDFs, so the hat gear stayed in the pack. Really great weather for it: cool & partly sunny.
The six guys I hiked with, with sign for... 
...the Six Husbands Trail. Started with six guys. One got sick and peeled off at the Six Husbands trail sign. Another took a shortcut back from Mount Washington. Two ended up skirting some peaks. Dave and particularly Chuck were much stronger than me on the uphills, but I had a bit more oomph on the final long descent. After all, it would have been only halfway through a rogaine... | ||
| C • Good training, and good HTFeet... 9 | ||
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Mount Madison. 
Mount Adams. 
Mount Jefferson. 
Mount Clay. 
Mount Washington. 
Mount Monroe 
Mount Eisenhower 
Mount Pierce | ||
| C • stumped 3 | ||
Friday Jul 13 | ||
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| Great.
Just found out I'm speaking in 10-250 tonight. I don't like these speaking gigs. I'm trying to pull together a presentation right now. It's going to suck! | ||
| Running 35:00 [1] | |
| weight:136lbs | ||
| bridge circuit. weight has ballooned.
Just got back from my lecture. Audience was 60 really smart high school kids at MIT for a 6-week program where they learn about science and work in a lab. They wore dresses and suits and ties, a tradition in their program for the evening lectures. They were really polite and gave me a standing ovation (I think that's just another tradition) and asked me intelligent questions for half an hour after I finished talking. Not your typical spaced-out audience. The traditions were put in place by the naval secretary who founded the program, Admiral Rickover, the "father of the nuclear navy and of civilian uses of nuclear power." There is a military theme to the day, as earlier I read Bob Turbyfill's syllabus for jr training camp, and there's a certain style, including a dress code. Not my natural style, but I think I like it. | ||
Thursday Jul 12 | ||
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| http://swampfoxridesagain.blogspot.com/
Trying to hold myself back from gobbling it all up at once. | ||
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| I'm going to Vienna next Thursday, for a week. Suddenly realized I'd better learn some German, so I ordered a book. I'll be staying at an apartment about 20 km outside the city and hopefully biking in and out. So the big question is, do people wear bike helmets to ride on the streets of Vienna? Or will I look really foolish (like I did in Amsterdam) if I bring my helmet, as foolish as if I were wearing an upside-down blue plastic beer-drinking cup on my head? The bike helmet caused quite the ruckus in Amsterdam. Stupid teenagers.
I got the local O club to put on a score-O for the conference attendees at the Unterer Prater. That reminds me, I think I still have Joe's Prater map and should find it and give it back to him... | ||
| C • Running between trees 5 | ||
| C • Bike helmets in Vienna 4 | ||
Wednesday Jul 11 | ||
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| Planning a Presidential traverse for Sunday. Hope there's no thunderstorms. | ||
Tuesday Jul 10 | ||
| Hiking 2:30:00 [2] | |
| Mt Wachusett w/pg. ~40 FDFs on the hat. | ||
| Note | |
| Added some photos of the Italy trip. The full set of photos can be viewed here.
Day 1 Day 2 Rest day (Dolomites hike) Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 | ||
Monday Jul 9 | ||
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| Mom and Dad's itinerary in Sept:
Beijing, Dunhuang, Turpan, Kashgar, Urumqi, Xi'an, Lhasa, Xigatze, Chengdu, Shanghai, Suzhou | ||
Sunday Jul 8 | ||
| Note | |
| Reading The End of Faith (in transit backk home), quite disturbing and compelling, and sadly lacking in reasonable solutions... | ||