Training Log Archive: barb

Looking into camping for the Team Trials; found that one convenient campground is clothing optional. The kids will *not* be into that.

C • Hickory Run 4

Blue course. Took it very slowly. No ankle twists. Drank lots of water and so had about half a dozen pit stops. Very much enjoyed this course. Tried to go fairly straight for the most part, since I was going so slowly.

Isabel was very reluctant to run a course because she feels very out of practice. But she did white F12 on day 2 and did fine - came in 2nd in her age group I think although for some reason her result is not listed on the website. I found it amusing when we were discussing her big error that she was so disappointed about, and it cost her all of 2 minutes.

Event: West Point A-Meet
 

Around Cambridge. Breakfast at Toscanini's with Mike, Mike, Khing, Ning and Cindy. So nice to see my college friends!

To Arlington and back. Lots of traffic because Harvard Square was closed due to underground explosions. Flames shot up through manholes. Quote of the day: "We weren't trying to extinguish it because we weren't sure what kind of electrical volts were running through there." (There are different kinds?)

I had water instead of alcohol at the bar yesterday afternoon, and no coffee this morning. I feel groggy. Ate a lot at dinner, but not sugar or wheat.

C • volts 2

Brookline, Boston, Cambridge. Afternoon & evening. Suspended my (no) caffeine and sugar diet due to needing to have some brainpower at a Very Important Meeting. One transgression led to another and before long I found myself chatting up a State Department analyst and watching three women lovingly mud-wrestle while slabs of steer studded with butter knives roasted slowly over the coal pit behind me.

C • transgressions 4

Saw a car pull over toward a bike ahead of me - he was OK - but pissed.
Weight is with clothes & shoes on the way out the door this morning.

Today I decided to start eating/drinking more healthfully. Not only am I heavier than I'd like, but my heart arrhythmia is beginning to creep back into my life. And I'm feeling kind of depressed. But maybe that's the fact that I (a) have a job and (b) have too many things hanging over my head that I have to get done.

So today I did not get my usual coffee & muffin at DD. Instead I had eggs, fruit, cottage cheese and OJ. By lunchtime I was really sleepy from the lack of caffeine. I nodded off during a seminar and decided that I needed to bike home and take a quick nap before my next meeting an hour later, or else I would embarrass myself by falling asleep during the statistician's presentation. Unfortunately, my watch alarm no longer seems to wake me up (important to know for rogaines, not that we tend to sleep during rogaines any more). So I was embarrassingly late for the meeting. I still feel groggy. I am proud that I also avoided the free peanut butter cookies. Next task is to decide whether I'm going to avoid having a beer at a little celebration this afternoon with my colleagues.

C • Coffee 3

Do people ever get injured by these traps?

Oft-heard non-grammatical phrase of the day: "Can I help who's next?"

Lots of interaction with traffic in the 4-minute commute, and I wasn't always in the right.

C • Traps 2

Work commute

To the Fells for a CSU sprint. Then to MIT where I caught the very tail end of the science trivia contest, but at least I got to see Ira Flatow. He looks kind of nerdy. The one question (youth division tie-breaker) that I got to see was: name the 20 SI units derived from the 7 basic SI units, many of them named after scientists. (E.g., Volt, Newton, Henry...). The basic SI units are things like mole, meter, second.

Time is approximate.
Lots of trails which is pleasant.

Photos from walking around in Paris on 4/21:

Trampolines in the Tuileries gardens:





From the Eiffel tower staircase:



Looking down to where Grandma & Grandpa are waiting:



Looking across the river to Sacre Coeur:



Grandpa on the Batobus:



Notre Dame:



Feeding the birds:

C • Paris 2