Training Archive: barbIn the 7 days ending 2007-10-06:
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Friday Oct 5 | ||
| Bicycling 1:00:00 [3] | |
| Rough time estimate. Pushed really hard outbound, lazier inbound. To school, then Arlington. Then DD with Dave, then work. Later I'll bike home. Had fun Taking the Lane and playing chicken with the larger vehicles. (I usually win!) Saw David and his class on the way to the T to go to Alewife where they do fieldwork for science class.
Woke up real early to pull together materials so Isabel and her teacher could run a classroom training this afternoon in advance of Tuesday's orienteering field trip. I'm psyched because it's the first time we'll really pull off assigning roles on a team and doing some actual training in preparation. Today, Isabel will give a presentation (hopefully while wearing the Hat) about Tuesday's trip (2 parts: urban orienteering to get to the park, then a "team challenge" where there are some shared controls and other team controls with envelopes with puzzle pieces). Then the teams of 4 will get together and assign roles and pick a team name. Then all the kids with a given role will get together and train. The Planners (also the team leaders) will study the maps and decide which team will get which of the puzzle controls. Then they'll do a role-playing exercise to practice leading the team. The Feature Readers will go through a presentation about features and contours, and then make flash cards with the map symbols. The Distance Estimators will go outside and practice pace counting. The Direction Diviners will work with compasses and figure out how to orient the map with the sun. The training piece could have benefited from more than the 15 minutes I had left this morning to pull it together. Next time... The other thing that is really cool about this is that I won't be there for the indoor training piece. I'm hoping that by handing off some half-baked materials (powerpoint presentation, sloppy instructions, maps), and having Isabel there, everything will go smoothly. | ||
Thursday Oct 4 | ||
| Running 16:00 [1] | |
| Early morning trip to work and back | ||
| Bicycling 8:00 [2] | |
| Trying to avoid getting the cold that's going around... | ||
| Note | |
| weight:138lbs | ||
| Feeling an urge to make some cookies. | ||
| C • Summer memories 5 | ||
Wednesday Oct 3 | ||
| Bicycling 16:00 [2] | |
| 5:30 am to work, then immediately back home since I'd forgotten my badge, then to work, then (in the future, but it seems inevitable) back home.
Dreams last night: 1. I'm in some country where the women are supposed to be covered, and I don't have enough clothes on, particularly on my legs, and so I'm kind of staying in hiding. Then we're in a big nice car being driven around and the locals start stoning the car. Later we're in some tourist hotel but all packed together sleeping in one room with lots of other people... 2. Someone is critiquing some animated (but serious art) films saying they're always morphing into really dark scary stuff, and then in the dream I'm seeing the film do just that. 3. The devil is coming after my friend, it's inevitable. He makes his appearance through the television at first. The devil wants to make a deal with him, eternal life. Don't do it, I'm saying, everyone who does it regrets it. The friend does it. Next the devil goes after Isabel. Don't do it, I say, bad idea. Dream ends. | ||
Tuesday Oct 2 | ||
| Note | |
Kids from our First Lego League team holding a water-filled translucent brick used in the construction of MIT's solar house:
Here is the solar house itself. Below it on the left are huge water tanks they'll need at the exhibition in DC because there won't be water hook-ups. Below it on the right are the battery cases; these also would not be needed if you were feeding juice back into the grid. We found out that in Massachusetts the electric utility pays you WAY less for electricity that you generate than they charge for electricity that you pull from them. But in other places, they pay you the same amount. This could make a huge difference in people's decisions about whether to generate electricity, and how much. 
And here Eva & Izzy are examining a model of a green building at the Harvard Graduate School of Design: 
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| C • Solar Electricity Price 8 | ||
| Bicycling 33:00 [3] | |
| to work and back, then to school for 5th grade open house, and back.
Today I perused the results from a recent NEOC meet. There were 5 families or parts of families at the meet who know about orienteering through us, and 4 of the 5 came to the meet completely independently from us - we didn't even know they were coming. So that's pretty cool - people say that outreach in the schools doesn't help and people never come back to meets, but it is just not true! Dave was telling me Erin's story, how she first orienteered with a 4H club and liked it and kept coming back. I think it's a numbers game. You just have to introduce it to enough people, and some of them will come back. | ||
Monday Oct 1 | ||
| Bicycling 30:00 [3] | |
| Put the bike in the car. Drove David to Arlington for his appointment. Took the bike out of the car and biked to Fresh Pond to see 20 minutes of Isabel's soccer game. Apparently, before I got to the game, Isabel made a breakaway goal; her first shot bounced off the goalie but she persevered and got it in on the rebound. She also did great service in goal. Biked back (past LOTS of car traffic, ha ha) to Arlington. Put the bike back in the car. Went up to the waiting room and started reading an old New Yorker, comparing LBJ's Wise Men to, well, they weren't sure who exactly, of Bush's advisers. Didn't get too far before David came in and we left.
Yesterday Isabel went to her first synchronized swimming class. It was awesome (tough workout, great coaches, novices are all strong swimmers and good listeners). I did think a bit about how AP snobs might poo poo this sport too. No sequins as far as I know. Serious athleticism though. The night before we'd watched "Jump In" about competitive team double dutch. Which was poo poo'd in the movie by the serious boxer guys. They also made fun of the girl boxer. David started tennis lessons on Saturday. Turns out he might be good at it. Had a weird tough emotional moment in the morning after doing some business at the kids' school. Part of it was feeling snubbed by another parent. Part of it was feeling like maybe the Administration at the school finds me a pest. Later realized it might have all been exacerbated by pms. | ||
| C • traffic 7 | ||
| C • AP snobs? 4 | ||