Training Log Archive: barb

Hiked Lafayette again; last time this took us 6:30; this time 4:50. Powered up the hill; meandered along the narrow ridge; ran the very last bit. This was mostly training for the "approaches" at SOW. My theory, based on rogaine experience, is that I perform better after a warm-up hike of a few hours. :-) Maybe that will help me acclimate to the elevation too. So I'm dabbling with the idea of hiking to some of the starts from Zermatt.

Work commute. Crazy working like mad, with lots of small moments of procrastination...

Today I discovered google spreadsheets. Pretty darn cool. I started one with Swiss O Week start times for people I know and want to follow. So far I have my family, Gagarins, Flemings, Kotowskis.

Biked to work, and then to the Brazilian embassy, where I waited around for quite a while to apply for a visa. I wondered if there would have been a different ambiance if Brazil were still a contender in the World Cup.

Bridge loop. Muggy morning. Lots of boats on the Charles.

I want to move my schedule earlier each day in preparation for Switzerland. Woke at 5:35 this morning.

9... 8... 7... ... 1... booster ignition and liftoff of the space shuttle Discovery!...

Anyway, ... We hiked Chicorua.

Thunder...

Lafayette loop. I was incredibly slow. Like tai-chi hiking, we joked. I think my system had been weakened from several days of excess: caffeine, food, dessert, wine, staying up too late, websudoku, chocolate, Netflix, manicures, hard drugs, rock and roll, bondage, raw monkey brains, closetsful of shoes, you name it.

Muggy.

We did the Dicky-Welch trail.