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Saturday Mar 31, 2007 #
Friday Mar 30, 2007 #
Running 28:03 [4] 3.0 mi (9:21 / mi)
6 am. 35F. Some asthma. Back fine, knee fine, achilles tendon fine. Some tightness in right scapula area.
Bicycling 16:00 [1]
work, MIT, work, home.
Bicycling 6:00 [1]
Grocery store run.
Running 27:00 [1]
9:15 pm. After dinner. Very full tummy. Slow.
Thursday Mar 29, 2007 #
Running 30:00 [3] 3.0 mi (10:00 / mi)
bridge circuit. tried to go fast. Some asthma. Lower back chronically hurts a bit.
Bicycling 29:00 [1]
To school to meet with a couple teachers, about getting their kids orienteering. It looks like I'll get some 1st & 2nd graders to orienteer on a harbor island in May, and some 4th graders, including the English immersion class, to go to the Fells. I'm also hoping to get some 6th graders, and maybe some 3rd graders. I was thinking the other day that I've helped get over 200 kids to orienteer in the Fells in the last couple of years. That's a lot of kids!
Then to work, past DD. Lots of lights. Right knee hurts under the kneecap, where I injured it a couple years ago falling on it with Dave on my back, wrestling in Gretchen's kitchen. It tends to hurt when I bike, and when I do squats and squat-like manoeuvres. I bet I spelled that wrong. Maneuvers?
After work: to the soccer field to pick up the girls.
Then to work, past DD. Lots of lights. Right knee hurts under the kneecap, where I injured it a couple years ago falling on it with Dave on my back, wrestling in Gretchen's kitchen. It tends to hurt when I bike, and when I do squats and squat-like manoeuvres. I bet I spelled that wrong. Maneuvers?
After work: to the soccer field to pick up the girls.
Walking 10:00 [1]
Home from soccer
Note
DDDEE
Wednesday Mar 28, 2007 #
Running 8:00 [1]
5:20 am. to work
Bicycling 25:00 [2]
Decided to try a stationary bike, since people seem to be so productive on them. I brought a couple papers to read, and got halfway through one of them, which was good, and worked up a sweat, which is also good. I forget how many calories the machine said I'd burned, but I'm sure it was less than my caloric intake this morning.
Strength 45:00 [1]
Pilates class
Note
abcdef. A man in a chef's hat handed me 4 Lindt chocolates at a stoplight in Porter Square as I was driving (!) the kids to school for an evening session on being healthy. I gave all the chocolates to the kids. They said they were really good.
Tuesday Mar 27, 2007 #
Running 37:00 [1]
felt very slow and tired
Running 23:00 [2] 2.1 mi (10:57 / mi)
Work to school. Then the kids and I walked home. We stopped half-way at Dunkin Donuts, where I saw an advertisement for new direct Boston-Scotland airfares starting at $199 each way (flyglobespan). Don't get too excited though - I think the particular days for the Scottish 6-day are more expensive. And don't forget to check out the Edinburgh Fringe Festival afterwards...
Bicycling 4:00 [1]
Note
abcdef. Refused to eat any of the kids' DD chocolate chunk cookie when it was offered.
Monday Mar 26, 2007 #
Bicycling 12:00 [1]
work, then groceries
Running 49:00 [2]
Didn't mind running.
Note
weight:134lbs
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Sunday Mar 25, 2007 #
Running 34:00 [3] 3.7 mi (9:11 / mi)
To Marion St to drop off the DDR dance pad, finally. In a rush to get back to leave for our performance.
Note
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Saturday Mar 24, 2007 #
Running 10:00 [1]
Had to abort.
Strength 55:00 [2]
New teacher. Good stuff.
DDR 1:00 [3]
weight:135lbs
Took the kids to MIT after our World Premier opera performance. We played in the arcade for a while, including a round of DDR. I got to watch some people who are really really good at DDR - wow! It was definitely inspiring. After dinner at Anna's Taqueria, we went to the Shakespeare Ensemble's performance of Henry V, which started at 8:00 (= bedtime). We were pretty sleepy and the first half is very talky; the fighting we'd been promised doesn't take place until after intermission - in other words, after we'd bailed. We walked home in falling snow.
abcdef.
abcdef.
Bicycling 16:00 [1]
to the gym, then on to shop
Friday Mar 23, 2007 #
Running 34:00 [2]
slept:6.75 weight:133lbs
6 am. OK, so I decided I would try running fast for a couple of minutes. Two 1/8-miles at about 47 seconds. Yet another "baseline." I didn't really mind going fast (I mean "fast") for just 47 seconds, but I did proceed to ponder the fact that I prefer being Comfortable when I'm out moving around, even when competing, not Speedy. Which brings us back to rogaines and their nice Comfortable pacing (as seen from this vantage point, i.e., not actually doing a rogaine at the moment). Which in turn reminds me that I have a bunch of Committee work hanging over my head now, and I really must get to it.
Things have been slipping the last couple of weeks. I've been eating a lot and not getting in the exercise, perhaps in hamstring sympathy. I think the G has been pulling my weight upwards (to compensate, today I weighed myself at the diurnal nadir, pre-breakfast, post-exercise). On the positive side, I'm getting caught up with some of my non-exercise duties. For example, most of my tax-related documents, generally still in their unopened envelopes, are now in a single pile. And the papers I have to review I've now only been avoiding for a couple of days, not many weeks.
Another good thing: I made soup yesterday, and it was really good, and even the kids liked it (= not only did they *say* they liked it, but they actually ate some though not all of their portions), so I'm thinking maybe I can start to build my diet around home-made soup and salad! The soup had onions, garlic, mushrooms, broccoli, squash, a potato, carrots - all in a chicken broth base with a little cream and a touch of chili, curry and basil, and I put it through the blender, resulting in a baby-food-like texture that was really quite fine for soup.
Things have been slipping the last couple of weeks. I've been eating a lot and not getting in the exercise, perhaps in hamstring sympathy. I think the G has been pulling my weight upwards (to compensate, today I weighed myself at the diurnal nadir, pre-breakfast, post-exercise). On the positive side, I'm getting caught up with some of my non-exercise duties. For example, most of my tax-related documents, generally still in their unopened envelopes, are now in a single pile. And the papers I have to review I've now only been avoiding for a couple of days, not many weeks.
Another good thing: I made soup yesterday, and it was really good, and even the kids liked it (= not only did they *say* they liked it, but they actually ate some though not all of their portions), so I'm thinking maybe I can start to build my diet around home-made soup and salad! The soup had onions, garlic, mushrooms, broccoli, squash, a potato, carrots - all in a chicken broth base with a little cream and a touch of chili, curry and basil, and I put it through the blender, resulting in a baby-food-like texture that was really quite fine for soup.
Yoga 1:00:00 [1]
Yay
Bicycling 8:00 [1]
Thursday Mar 22, 2007 #
Running 38:00 [1]
6 am
Bicycling 8:00 [1]
commute
Yoga 16:00 [1]
abcDef Strawberry shortcake. DDDDEE
Wednesday Mar 21, 2007 #
Bicycling 8:00 [1]
Work commute
I had planned to go running early this morning, but I woke up at 1:00 a.m. and couldn't get back to sleep until 5. Got a few things taken care of in my backlog, though...
I had planned to go running early this morning, but I woke up at 1:00 a.m. and couldn't get back to sleep until 5. Got a few things taken care of in my backlog, though...
Running 36:00 [1]
9 pm. No way would I have done this if it weren't for fear of the E!
Yoga 18:00 [1]
weight:134lbs
abcdef - Running total is DDDEE beyond what's allowed.
Tuesday Mar 20, 2007 #
Running 57:00 [1]
5:51 am. bridge circuit plus milk run.
Bicycling 8:00 [1]
Monday Mar 19, 2007 #
Running 9:00 [1]
To work
Bicycling 4:00 [1]
Home from work.
Well, sugar and caffeine really are bad for me. Stayed up late last night reviewing/editing a paper; rewarded myself on my progress by eating a big ice cream sundae. Had to leave meetings suddenly twice at work today. And I had some caffeine today to make up for being up so late; but it just gave me that anxious, heart-fluttery feeling without the nice brain perk-up. My body chemistry has changed in the last few years.
Well, sugar and caffeine really are bad for me. Stayed up late last night reviewing/editing a paper; rewarded myself on my progress by eating a big ice cream sundae. Had to leave meetings suddenly twice at work today. And I had some caffeine today to make up for being up so late; but it just gave me that anxious, heart-fluttery feeling without the nice brain perk-up. My body chemistry has changed in the last few years.
Running 22:00 [1]
Yoga 25:00 [1]
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Sunday Mar 18, 2007 #
Note
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Saturday Mar 17, 2007 #
Event: Boojum Rock Sprint
Shoveling 30:00 [1]
Slush. Worked on making a clear path for the water to the drain around the corner. Our snowman did not survive the night. My new winter tights worked really great - as did the one new never-before-seen glove I found in my hat&glove bin. Wonder how it got there. Wonder whose it is. Wonder where its partner is.
Orienteering 48:44 [3]
So I was less than a minute behind Jeff Saeger. I was certainly not moving quickly, and in fact spent a few minutes just looking at control 3 before deciding to get my feet wet - so I wonder what happened: is his time wrong? ... Ah, just read his log. No compass, and no magnifiers.
Boojum sprints. Sparsely attended due to the weather - we probably should have tried postponing this NEOC junior-run fundraiser, as they made maybe $24 total. But I did have competition (Samantha), and 4 guys went out on the sprint. We nabbed a party of newcomers who were passing by to try the White course. They started off in the wrong direction, but Ceire set them straight.
It was just about freezing. Trees had ice on them; marshes were slushy. The snow was crusty and a bit painful on the shins. Ben Parson set a very nice course - but control 3 was completely surrounded by slush+water. My feet did OK thanks to some good socks and keeping moving. First time out in my gorgeous new red & black Ice Bugs.
Boojum sprints. Sparsely attended due to the weather - we probably should have tried postponing this NEOC junior-run fundraiser, as they made maybe $24 total. But I did have competition (Samantha), and 4 guys went out on the sprint. We nabbed a party of newcomers who were passing by to try the White course. They started off in the wrong direction, but Ceire set them straight.
It was just about freezing. Trees had ice on them; marshes were slushy. The snow was crusty and a bit painful on the shins. Ben Parson set a very nice course - but control 3 was completely surrounded by slush+water. My feet did OK thanks to some good socks and keeping moving. First time out in my gorgeous new red & black Ice Bugs.
Note
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I was about to head for bed, but Isabel rose from the couch and stretched her arms out toward me, inviting me to snuggle there too and watch the rest of "Wrath of Khan" with her & Dave & David, so I did.
I was about to head for bed, but Isabel rose from the couch and stretched her arms out toward me, inviting me to snuggle there too and watch the rest of "Wrath of Khan" with her & Dave & David, so I did.
Friday Mar 16, 2007 #
Hiking 40:00 [1]
Took the kids to the Blue Hills before work. David's friend Kenny came along too.
Note
Last night Katia gave me a rent check and asked where she was supposed to sign it. Apparently they don't have checks in Europe. She vaguely remembers her parents using checks when she was a little girl, back in the old days. She finds us rather quaint that way.
Shoveling 30:00 [1]
Note
aBcdef Cum: DDDEE - starting to slip
Stayed up late shoveling and playing in the snow after watching "Mirror, Mirror" and "City on the Edge of Time" or whatever it's called when Spock & Kirk have to go to 1930 to rescue McCoy from his drug-induced paranoia and the resultant unfortunate peace-mongering.
Stayed up late shoveling and playing in the snow after watching "Mirror, Mirror" and "City on the Edge of Time" or whatever it's called when Spock & Kirk have to go to 1930 to rescue McCoy from his drug-induced paranoia and the resultant unfortunate peace-mongering.
Thursday Mar 15, 2007 #
Running 36:00 [1] 3.0 mi (12:00 / mi)
6:20 am. Felt some tightness in the chest, more cardiac than pulmonary. Still have a cold.
Running 37:00 [1]
6:40 pm. Rainy, getting colder. Ran in my work dress, listening to the opera rehearsal tracks.
Strength 23:00 [2]
Wednesday Mar 14, 2007 #
Bicycling 8:00 [3]
work commute
Running 16:00 [1]
Early morning work commute - back to get the kids up and through breakfast to the bus stop.
Note
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Bleah.
Bleah.
Tuesday Mar 13, 2007 #
Bicycling 8:00 [1]
Monday Mar 12, 2007 #
Bicycling 8:00 [1]
(sick)
Work commute.
Caught another cold. I had figured I was done with being sick for the winter. Guess it's spring now, and the counter resets or something.
Bleah.
abcDEf
Caught another cold. I had figured I was done with being sick for the winter. Guess it's spring now, and the counter resets or something.
Bleah.
abcDEf
Sunday Mar 11, 2007 #
Running 27:00 [2]
weight:132lbs
7:15 am. Ran to the grocery store and home. Total weight coming back: 154 lb. Unfortunately, at the grocery store I came upon some dark chocolate McVitie's digestive biscuits, which means I will be getting a D sometime soon.
Running 18:30 [3] 1.98 mi (9:21 / mi)
7:15 pm. Home from rehearsal
Walking in the woods 20:00 [1]
OK, desperate to get my hour in so I'll log this. Taught the kids how to use OCAD to set a course, then walked around on the white course David designed at Boojum for next Sunday's event.
Note
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Saturday Mar 10, 2007 #
Running 40:00 [1]
5:12 am. Bridge circuit plus. Wore backpack in case I was inspired to go to the store for groceries. I wasn't.
Swimming 20:00 [2]
Izzy coached me.
Running 2:11 [3]
quarter mile 1:53
Isabel quarter mile 1:54
100 m 18.75
Isabel 100 m 21
Isabel quarter mile 1:54
100 m 18.75
Isabel 100 m 21
Bicycling 23:00 [2]
To Mary Chung's, then rehearsal (made a wrong turn for a few extra minutes), then home.
Friday Mar 9, 2007 #
Bicycling 1:04:00 [3]
Out to appointment in Arlington, work, home.
Felt hard to pedal. Need to lube the chain. Good workout though. Toes got cold. Apparently it's the last cold day; up to 50 tomorrow.
Felt hard to pedal. Need to lube the chain. Good workout though. Toes got cold. Apparently it's the last cold day; up to 50 tomorrow.
Note
So I had inflammation in my forearm, ever since last July. I felt it from the outside of my elbow down to the top of the back of my hand, and in fact when I tried to push up with the back of my hand against resistance it really hurt. Eventually visited a doc, who gave me exercises but also said that the inflammation would just feed on itself unless I knocked it thoroughly down. So I cranked up the ibuprofen for a couple months (& not too happily b/c I know it's got some side effects), and I think I might be beating it. Also quit being shy about usin the arm in yoga & other workouts, and am trying to avoid klutzily bumping it into things, which I think i might have been doing a lot. Anyway, the point is about getting the inflammation down; apparently another thing that can be done is a shot of steroids (?) delivered right to the site - just to get out of that cycle of inflammation.
Note
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Thursday Mar 8, 2007 #
Running 34:00 [3] 3.0 mi (11:20 / mi)
slept:7.0
5:21 am. Cold. Opera. Bridge circuit.
Yoga 55:00 [1]
Bicycling 15:00 [1]
Work and reception for the Center for Excellence in Education, which provides training and competitions for high-achieving math & science students. It was held at Akamai's headquarters, and I got a tour from Tom Leighton, who I know from MIT (though I don't think he remembers me, same old story). When I was at MIT, there was no Akamai, there were just a bunch of graduate students writing esoteric theses about network traffic problems.
Note
weight:132lbs
abcdef
Wednesday Mar 7, 2007 #
Running 36:00 [3] 3.0 mi (12:00 / mi)
5:25 am. 12F without wind chill. Bridge circuit.
DDR 20:00 [2]
Pretty good workout for the calves. With Dave, Isabel, Keegan, David, at the neighbors', while babysitting.
Strength 30:00 [1]
Parts of Hard Core DVD, with David.
"This is ridiculous. I bet Samantha Saeger doesn't do this. This is stupid."
and
"You are nothing like your brother."
(me: My brother? What are you talking about Uncle Doug for?)
"Your brother is way more civilized." He makes a straining sound, imitating me.
"This is ridiculous. I bet Samantha Saeger doesn't do this. This is stupid."
and
"You are nothing like your brother."
(me: My brother? What are you talking about Uncle Doug for?)
"Your brother is way more civilized." He makes a straining sound, imitating me.
Bicycling 8:00 [1]
Work commute.
Tuesday Mar 6, 2007 #
Bicycling 16:00 [1]
Brrr.
Work, lunch with Keith Robison, work, home.
Work, lunch with Keith Robison, work, home.
Note
weight:130lbs
(Weight is a low aberration from lots of O this weekend)
Goals for the next 6 weeks:
Run a lot more.
Start swimming with Isabel coaching me.
Maintain the abc's at one transgression a week:
Alcohol (not)
Bed by 10
Caffeine (not)
Dextrose (sugar) (not)
Exercise (1 hr)
Flossing
Deliverables:
A meets late April -
better than 12 min/km in green
better than 2X winner, & < 15 min/km, in blue
abcdEf
Goals for the next 6 weeks:
Run a lot more.
Start swimming with Isabel coaching me.
Maintain the abc's at one transgression a week:
Alcohol (not)
Bed by 10
Caffeine (not)
Dextrose (sugar) (not)
Exercise (1 hr)
Flossing
Deliverables:
A meets late April -
better than 12 min/km in green
better than 2X winner, & < 15 min/km, in blue
abcdEf
Monday Mar 5, 2007 #
Yoga 55:00 [1]
Stair climbing 2:00 [3]
Running 18:00 [2]
Note
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Sunday Mar 4, 2007 #
Orienteering race (Green F45) 1:20:51 [3] 6.4 km (12:38 / km)
Had trouble finding #3 (195), shallow reentrant, and hidden behind one of the downed trees. Lost a few minutes. Lost more minutes 11-12 when I decided I would try to cross the stream in the little place where the black lines stopped, but I couldn't see the bottom so I wimped out and went around.
Orienteering race (Blue M21) 3:27:06 [3] 13.78 km (15:02 / km)
Same problem at #13 (226) - shallow reentrant and control hidden behind a downed tree. Had to relocate from the road. I should not have discounted the downed-tree symbols so much. I should have read the contours better. I should have spent less time afterward imagining Vlad setting the controls there, cackling with evil Rasputin-like laughter. Because in fact, I'm very grateful to Vlad for making this weekend happen, and the course was so fine.
11-12: spent a bunch of time before this leg deciding what to do here (straight, road or river). The short climb to 11 was enough to convince me to take the path along the river, which turned out to be lovely to run on and quite scenic. After all, I figured, I'm not in this to win, and I've got the time. And I thought it would be pretty safe navigationally, come in along the creek, and it was.
Didn't meet my goal of twice the winner's time, but I'm happy about maintaining 15 min/km.
11-12: spent a bunch of time before this leg deciding what to do here (straight, road or river). The short climb to 11 was enough to convince me to take the path along the river, which turned out to be lovely to run on and quite scenic. After all, I figured, I'm not in this to win, and I've got the time. And I thought it would be pretty safe navigationally, come in along the creek, and it was.
Didn't meet my goal of twice the winner's time, but I'm happy about maintaining 15 min/km.
Note
Abcdef. Decided against counting the two - what are they called - shot bloks? shock blobs? - as transgressive sugar. Because I was eating them while navigating on the first three controls, so I used them for good, not evil. Would not do this again though, two at once; kind of awkward to talk to the starting guy.
And the A is for a glass of cabernet sauvignon, accompanying a remarkably tasty linguini with veggies & salad ordered from room service, all of which I decided I "deserved" after the weekend's orienteering.
Today I learned from Kurt Vonnegut that Abraham Lincoln had this to say about James Polk (who, as president, waged war on Mexico, which had never attacked us):
Trusting to escape scrutiny, by fixing the public gaze upon the exceeding brightness of military glory -- that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood -- that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy -- he plunged into war.
Funny how stuff from the "old days" sometimes seems to so be relevant now. And boy, that Lincoln liked his em dashes, eh? Vonnegut says not to use semicolons, because they are "transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing"; however, he apparently has no problem with em dashes.
Eric, are you out there? What's the name of the AP person whose blog you recommended?
And the A is for a glass of cabernet sauvignon, accompanying a remarkably tasty linguini with veggies & salad ordered from room service, all of which I decided I "deserved" after the weekend's orienteering.
Today I learned from Kurt Vonnegut that Abraham Lincoln had this to say about James Polk (who, as president, waged war on Mexico, which had never attacked us):
Trusting to escape scrutiny, by fixing the public gaze upon the exceeding brightness of military glory -- that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood -- that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy -- he plunged into war.
Funny how stuff from the "old days" sometimes seems to so be relevant now. And boy, that Lincoln liked his em dashes, eh? Vonnegut says not to use semicolons, because they are "transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing"; however, he apparently has no problem with em dashes.
Eric, are you out there? What's the name of the AP person whose blog you recommended?
Saturday Mar 3, 2007 #
Walking 1:00:00 [1]
Walked to the event site from the hotel. Nice warm-up. Took it easy. Stuck to the woods except a couple stretches on the side of the highway.
Orienteering race (Green F45) 58:21 [3] 4.63 km (12:36 / km)
BOK Umstead A meet.
Lovely terrain, gorgeous day, fun courses.
2nd column is time for the same leg on the second run. Slowed down significantly.
4:36
5:20
4:32
1:52
4:41
10:05
2:25 2:38
3:59 4:00
6:41 7:43
6:51
4:03
2:45 2:55
0:31 0:37
Lovely terrain, gorgeous day, fun courses.
2nd column is time for the same leg on the second run. Slowed down significantly.
4:36
5:20
4:32
1:52
4:41
10:05
2:25 2:38
3:59 4:00
6:41 7:43
6:51
4:03
2:45 2:55
0:31 0:37
Orienteering race (Red M45) 1:57:38 [3] 7.5 km (15:41 / km)
Wore the Sarvas, thinking I'd try them out for use in longer events, but they're a no go. They're fine for running on frozen stuff, but too loose for hills. I wonder if I could get a tighter-fitting Sarva. Need the length in the toes though.
2:06
6:15
7:18
6:58
10:27
6:54
3:47
1:15
5:52
17:06
11:01
2:38
4:00
7:43
3:30
6:40
2:11
2:44
5:41
2:55
0:37
2:06
6:15
7:18
6:58
10:27
6:54
3:47
1:15
5:52
17:06
11:01
2:38
4:00
7:43
3:30
6:40
2:11
2:44
5:41
2:55
0:37
Friday Mar 2, 2007 #
Event: BOK/US Team Umstead 007
Bicycling 1:00:00 [2]
Work - Arlington - Harvard Square - work - home.
I looked at this as an opportunity to test the gear. It's wild outside, lots of rain and wind, and cold.
New panier with built-in fluorescent yellow raincover: aces!
Winter pants over long undies got soaked but I'm warm.
Merrells went about 20 min before getting completely soaked.
Couldn't find my 2nd water-resistant mitten so went with the black fleece gloves, which got soaked but were better than nothing.
Raincoat passed the test.
Bike gears seem to get slightly loose, reminiscent of how your joints behave when you're pregnant.
Brakes were fine.
I looked at this as an opportunity to test the gear. It's wild outside, lots of rain and wind, and cold.
New panier with built-in fluorescent yellow raincover: aces!
Winter pants over long undies got soaked but I'm warm.
Merrells went about 20 min before getting completely soaked.
Couldn't find my 2nd water-resistant mitten so went with the black fleece gloves, which got soaked but were better than nothing.
Raincoat passed the test.
Bike gears seem to get slightly loose, reminiscent of how your joints behave when you're pregnant.
Brakes were fine.
Yoga 10:00 [3]
Airport yoga.
aBcdef. Plane was late.
My airplane reading was interesting.
There was another surprising name-sighting of someone whom I know personally, and who I'd never imagine would show up in the pages of in Runner's World. Last month it was singer-songwriter Josh Ritter. This time it is Christof Koch, the Caltech professor from whom I took a course on neural modeling in Wood's Hole. The end-of-course party was very wild; I remember stopping by the lighthouse on the way back from the liquor store to admire the moon and drink some Jack Daniels (not the running coach) with the other course professor, and everyone heading to the beach and skinny dipping - the water glowed green fluorescent when you moved through it - and Christof himself behaving, well, I won't get into that, and, well, you get the idea. That was a very very long time ago.
And then I opened the New Yorker, and there was a hugely long and luscious article all about Greta, a.k.a. Spider Woman (both the name of the article and my own nickname for her), ex-girlfriend of my Tucson evolutionary structural biologist friend Matt!!! She's famous! It talked about her going into L.A. basements in search of brown recluse spiders, which she milks for their venom. Then she analyzes the constituents of the venom, and figures out the evolutionary history of the proteins, and develops antidotes, and generally qualifies as one of my scientific heroines. The article got a little bit into her life (raised by creationist parents, married & was the good conservative christian housewife until she went on a three-month spider-behavior-logging trip into the jungle and when she came home her husband told her he was in love with another woman, and she's grateful because that ultimately allowed her to go off and become, well, Spider Woman), and I began to wonder if I was going to see mention of Matt himself, but no. It's a really interesting article; I recommend it, although it doesn't seem to be available online (yet?).
aBcdef. Plane was late.
My airplane reading was interesting.
There was another surprising name-sighting of someone whom I know personally, and who I'd never imagine would show up in the pages of in Runner's World. Last month it was singer-songwriter Josh Ritter. This time it is Christof Koch, the Caltech professor from whom I took a course on neural modeling in Wood's Hole. The end-of-course party was very wild; I remember stopping by the lighthouse on the way back from the liquor store to admire the moon and drink some Jack Daniels (not the running coach) with the other course professor, and everyone heading to the beach and skinny dipping - the water glowed green fluorescent when you moved through it - and Christof himself behaving, well, I won't get into that, and, well, you get the idea. That was a very very long time ago.
And then I opened the New Yorker, and there was a hugely long and luscious article all about Greta, a.k.a. Spider Woman (both the name of the article and my own nickname for her), ex-girlfriend of my Tucson evolutionary structural biologist friend Matt!!! She's famous! It talked about her going into L.A. basements in search of brown recluse spiders, which she milks for their venom. Then she analyzes the constituents of the venom, and figures out the evolutionary history of the proteins, and develops antidotes, and generally qualifies as one of my scientific heroines. The article got a little bit into her life (raised by creationist parents, married & was the good conservative christian housewife until she went on a three-month spider-behavior-logging trip into the jungle and when she came home her husband told her he was in love with another woman, and she's grateful because that ultimately allowed her to go off and become, well, Spider Woman), and I began to wonder if I was going to see mention of Matt himself, but no. It's a really interesting article; I recommend it, although it doesn't seem to be available online (yet?).
Thursday Mar 1, 2007 #
Yoga 50:00 [1]
Bicycling 8:00 [1]
work commute
Stair climbing 2:00 [3]
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