Training Log Archive: barb

Had to abort.

New teacher. Good stuff.

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.
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to the gym, then on to shop

C • That's all? 3

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.

C • Committee work--yum! 2

Yay

6 am

commute

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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...

C • thats happened to me. I wonde... 3

9 pm. No way would I have done this if it weren't for fear of the E!

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5:51 am. bridge circuit plus milk run.

To work

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.

C • caffeine 3

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