Training Log Archive: barb

(Time is approximate.)
Bog Slog in Seattle WA. Nice weather: 40s with a bunch of wet snow and slush on the ground. Not raining. Both John and Dave beat me. Had trouble going into a reentrant too early; I think that was control 7. It was the one beyond. Saw Eric.
This evening we're dining with friends at Bill & Renee's house. My friend Daria from college is coming - haven't seen her for a while. And various friends of Dave & John and Bill & Renee...
5/21

Left the house with Mom and Dad in their car around 6 am to get a 9:55am flight from O'Hare. Driveway and roads were glass ice, thick. We got about a mile before deciding this wasn't going to work. Up ahead there was a dip in the road, and cars looked like they weren't moving. Lots of brake lights. We pulled off and Dave and I got our stuff out of the back. I put on my Sarvas and Dave put on his Falcons. Mom and Dad made it back home and sent us an email to confirm. Dave and I made it to the train station, another mile beyond. We had just under 3 hours, at that point, to the departure of our plane. Cold, low 20s. Train into Chicago takes just under an hour. Then there is a 3.5 block walk to the big Picasso and another 45-min train to O'Hare. Then subterranean passageways partly covered by long moving walkways. Lines to get tickets, line through security, line for coffee, line in the bathroom, line to board. Made it. After lines of cars, lines of train cars, lines on the escalators. Line-y.

The cleats were key. It was the dark side of dawn when we started from the car. Unwieldy luggage, kind of heavy. Rolled the suitcase wherever possible. All shapes of frozen surface - frozen walked-in foot of slush (rough); ploughed driveway (inch-thick sheer ice). Jogged on textured ice past two women clinging to the fence in the rough frozen stuff, inching along. "How is she doing it?" asked the one in front of the one behind, referring to my running. "Cleats," I said as I went by. "Oh, cleats," she said. They made it to the platform in time to catch the train that we did, maybe 8 minutes later. Light side of dawn by then.

Oh, and the most surreal part was the first half mile of our Park Forest walk along Sauk Trail. Cars by the dozen littered the skating pond road, down into a big dip and back up again, at all angles, a few of them still spinning their wheels with an angry whirr. Like nothing so much as a bunch of deer flies stuck on your hat, a few still on their feet and able to beat their wings, more symphony than noise.

On plane, read book about nun with epilepsy. Would make excellent book club fodder.

C • Cool Story... 3

3/21

With Dave around the forest preserve. Jogged through a herd of 17 deer.
7/21.

Wore the Sarvas for this run through the forest preserve here in Park Forest IL (home for the holidays). It snowed yesterday, and is 33 and raining - has been for hours. So it's fairly nasty out. Slush and ice. Shoes were great - good exercise in uneven moving footing. In the woods I saw no deer, only their tracks. The weather conditions revealed every place any dog had peed in the past few days.

9/21.

Travel day - made it to Park Forest IL. Just got my hair cut by Debbie, who I went to grade school with. She filled me in on the lives of a few of her friends: Patti, Beth... Her husband has just lost his job (of 14 years) - the job losses are mounting amongst my acquaintances.

First day of Boiling Frog II.
Target: do one thing on the list of 21 (which is approximately the number of weeks until the rogaine).
Actual: 4.
As usual, target number increases by one each week.
Current list:

aerobic 30 min 1
aerobic 30 min 2
aerobic 30 min 3
aerobic 30 min 4
run fast
strength or stretch 30 min
strength or stretch another 30 min
accomplish 5 goals set at beginning of day (delegation is OK!)
accomplish 5 more goals
organize/clean/file 30 min or PLoS CB
no AP, news, DailyKos, sudoku or excess gmail @ work (friend outreach weekends)
vitamins & minerals
early to bed (10 pm)
perfect Mom
floss teeth
meditation
no refined sugar
no caffeine
no alcohol
no white wheat flour based stuff
no meat

Jogging around Cambridge in my Sarvas. When I got these, which I think was pre-Icebug, and from Larry, I believe I was a little disappointed b/c they were slightly big in the heel and tight in the toes. Today they felt fine. Perfect to have the metal cleats on the frozen sidewalks. Powerful. I wore these and not Icebugs because, frankly, I do not know, in the clutter of home, where the Icebugs are.

Happy to be getting exercise.

I ran to near MIT for a breakfast meeting, then back to work. And to the T to go to Davis Sq for a lunch meeting. Then ran to H Sq for Xmas shopping and a salon appointment, then on to Central Sq for beers with an old work buddy, then to work, where I am. Soon, home.