Training Archive: barbIn the 7 days ending 2008-01-26:
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Friday Jan 25 | ||
| Bicycling 30:00 [1] | |
| I have to say, I find this DNA engineering stuff disturbing. I love the George Church quote though. | ||
| C • DNA 6 | ||
| Note | |
| Finished watching Hitler: Rise to Power, with David. (He's studying Hitler at school.) | ||
Thursday Jan 24 | ||
| Bicycling 8:00 [1] | |
| Today I'm definitely sore from falling off the bike.
Feeling kind of low. | ||
| Yoga 1:00:00 [1] | |
| Start of a new lunchtime series at work. Forgot to bring clothes, so did it in my jeans. For most people that would restrict their movement a lot. For me, not so much, because I'm so inflexible anyway.
It was really hard for me. I felt sick, and regretted having had wine at the work reception yesterday and caffeine from DD this morning, and not enough other liquids. I'm cautious about my right knee which continues to have that old twinge under the kneecap and has been quite noticeable of late. | ||
| Running 38:00 [2] | |
| Ran around Fresh Pond while Isabel was at gymnastics. Ran fast for a whole minute.
Later, I took David to Biogen for this cool program they have introducing kids & parents to lab biology. We did a pharmacogenomics experiment, which is particularly neat since pharmacogenomics is what I (supposedly) do for a living. Except I'm not in the lab, I just sit in front of the computer trying to avoid the AP/DK temptation. We ran restriction digested DNA on gels to (supposedly) distinguish between leukemia patients with working and faulty TPMT enzymes, which affects their ability to benefit from 6-MP treatment. Best moment: turning on the UV light and seeing the bands light up in the gel - so beautiful! The instructor was really good at explaining the biology behind it (DNA -> protein, for example). Biogen has been doing this for nearly a decade, and their goal is to expose all Cambridge kids to this biology lab, in 6th grade, 8th grade and high school. They're nearly there with the 8th grade. 
We got to wear lab coats and safety glasses, and use pipetters. | ||
Wednesday Jan 23 | ||
| Bicycling 30:00 [1] | |
| Commute, with trip to Boston.
My soreness factor is at risk today - just a bit from doing situps. Watching Letterman was fun. Zack found a way to get noticed. It was fun to see John Edwards, but my favorite guest was the screenwriter. 13 hits to go to 15000. Thanks for visiting! It's nice and odd to have this somewhat amorphous & generally friendly "listening" out there. | ||
| Note | |
| Hey - I'm mentioned in a DailyKos blog entry! Given that I'm an addicted lurker on DK, I find that pretty funny. | ||
| C • DK 3 | ||
Tuesday Jan 22 | ||
| Yoga 1:00:00 [1] | |
| With Isabel, Amisi & Marguerite. Yay!
Sore: check. Sub-G: probably OK. Just found out about the Nova Scotia rogaine, April 26-27. Bummer, since I recently purchased tix to return from Paris April 26. Should I try and change them? Maybe. Ann Marie may do the June rogaine with me since she's owed me for 5 years ever since she agreed to do a Laurentian rogaine and then got pregnant instead. It was cool to do it with Brad, her husband, instead, and it's very cool to have little Keegan running around, but I still lust for the chance to partner with AM. 
Ann Marie & Keegan, with Brad in the background. | ||
| C • Photo op 3 | ||
| Bicycling 30:00 [1] | |
| To work & back, then to school in the evening for a presentation by our amazing teachers on their project-based approach. Fell off the bike! Not sure exactly what happened, but I think my front toe clip caught the back of the front fender when I was trying to turn sharply. Fell onto my left side, with the knee & elbow taking most of the impact, then the hip & shoulder. Not sure if my helmet hit too. It hurt but I seem OK now. Falling off my bike is perhaps not the best way to try and get sore. | ||
| C • Replace your helmet 6 | ||
Monday Jan 21 | ||
| Bicycling 8:00 [1] | |
| commute.
New goals: (1) remain sub-G (2) feel sore every day | ||
| C • Wow 3 | ||
| Note | |
| I had a sudden conversion moment last night, when I realized that deep water running (not that I know exactly how it works or have ever done it or anything) is a really fine thing that I want to do. I guess the final straw was reading peggyd's log.
Except I don't know where to go to do it. Can't find it, exactly, on YMCA or MIT web sites. Made some progress on my sub-G goal last night by cutting off about 6 inches of hair. | ||
| C • Water running is like... 1 | ||
| C • Water running is like... 13 | ||
| Note | |
Our friend, and bass player, Zack Hickman will be on David Letterman with his friend Josh Ritter tomorrow night, 2/22/08. In the photo below, he's the one on the right. The guy on the left is bass builder Creston Lea. I told Dave to try and get Zack to have Josh do a gig in Tucson while we're there, but that's even less likely than getting Matt Cordes to do a gig then, or getting Matt to get Clare Burson to do a gig, both of which I've tried. Matt says it's a good idea but he's got to submit a grant renewal on March 5, so he'll be too busy.
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Sunday Jan 20 | ||
| Variegated 2:00 [1] | |
| Candlepin bowling with the neighbor girls. Elapsed time was 30 minutes. Logged as 6 seconds per frame. Just to take my question about frequent intervals vs solid training to an extreme. Let's see, if I bowled for 24 hours, that would give me 24 * 2 * 2 = 96 minutes, quite respectable for a day of training. Which is better rogaine training, that or a bridge circuit? Hm, wonder if I can still use that bowling coupon. | ||
| Note | |
| weight:137lbs | ||