Training Log Archive: barb

Went with Mom, Dave & David to Izzy's soccer game. Starting at halftime, David and I went for a jog.

With David, to Jack's.

Fail: decided to "spend" the $25 on wine with dinner. Regretted it afterward, as I ended up quite sleepy, and dozed off during "The Triplets of Belleville", a movie I recommend.

Spent a while gardening over several days. 6 sun gold cherry tomatoes have been transplanted into their final pots. Planted 3 blueberry plants (different varieties). Transplanted ancho and other chiles from small to medium sized containers. Planted rosemary, tarragon and mint from local gardening store into final pots. Transplanted oregano and thyme I grew from seed. Also impatiens. Dave did a bunch of dirt processing, and the result was 2 garbage cans full of compost and 1 of dirt. He also planted potatoes.

OK - let's see where we are:

bishop22 4/15-4/21. Owes $30. I owe another $25 for 4/16.
4/22-4/28 cmorse.
4/28-5/3 gpingree.
after that: need to scare up some more sponsors. As lame as my "training" is, it would be nonexistent without this little scheme, and I lost 5 lb (ish)! So there is some measurable result!

I am happy to report that I have a partner for the Dakota rogaine: Barb Campbell.

And: something to worry about in Oregon: cryptococcus gattii (via NPR this morning). Apparently it is everywhere, on trees, in soil, floating around in the air. The strain VGIIc has killed 5 of 21 known human cases. Treatment sometimes involves cutting out the infecting part of the lung or brain. Great.

C • Cryptococcus gattii 6

C • Sponsor 2

Fail: it got to 10pm and I had forgotten to mix up the waffles for tomorrow morning. So I was up late. Still, happy about running with David. More running would be good.
Went to see several 5-minute science talks with Mom, Dad & Dave while David & Izzy went with Steph to the Iron Pour at Mass Art. Good stuff.

Ran with David, bridge circuit. He talked about the ROM hacking he's been doing on Super Mario World with the level editor Lunar Magic. He'd had some frustration recently with some bug in his program or the editor. His goal is to create a whole new (modified) game and invite his friends over to play it.
References: From Rule-Breaking to ROM-Hacking: Theorizing the Computer Game-as-Commodity by Will Jordan, UCI, 2007. Apparently David is the proletariat of the information age, engaged in an epic class struggle.
Legality of ROM Hacking. I think there are lots of parallels here to the posting-of-maps flap.
I find one source (WikiAnswers) saying ROM hacks are illegal to redistribute as they are a "derivative work".
Wikipedia says that hacks are released as a patch that can be applied to the unmodified ROM, which is supposed to get around the legal issue. "The use of patches does not eliminate copyright issues because the patches may be considered derivative works; however, corporations generally ignore them as long as they are not distributed with the ROMs."
White paper on video game emulation, 2004.
I think it's cool David figured out how to do this. Apparently his self-training included watching youtube videos.

Comfortably sub-G. I presume G peaks during tax season.

As we're heading into rogaine season (= a couple of them in May), here is an offering (via DK, and from 2006) of what happens to the mind of one serious endurance racer. Perhaps this insanity is one of the things we should build into the training regime for our envisioned US Rogaining (Rogaine?) Team.

‘‘During race, I am going crazy, definitely."

And this is typical for a good effort in a rogaine, is it not?:

Around Day 2 of a typical weeklong race, his speech goes staccato. By Day 3, he is belligerent and sometimes paranoid. His short-term memory vanishes, and he weeps uncontrollably. The last days are marked by hallucinations: bears, wolves and aliens prowl the roadside; asphalt cracks rearrange themselves into coded messages. Occasionally, Robic leaps from his bike to square off with shadowy figures that turn out to be mailboxes. In a 2004 race, he turned to see himself pursued by a howling band of black-bearded men on horseback. ‘‘Mujahedeen, shooting at me,’’ he explains. ‘‘So I ride faster.’’

He trains a lot --
Yet Robic does not excel on physical talent alone. He is not always the fastest competitor (he often makes up ground by sleeping 90 minutes or less a day), nor does he possess any towering physiological gift. On rare occasions when he permits himself to be tested in a laboratory, his ability to produce power and transport oxygen ranks on a par with those of many other ultra-endurance athletes. He wins for the most fundamental of reasons: he refuses to stop.

Ah, and this suggests a selection criterion we might consider for our teams - perhaps this is a way to get some advantage for Team USA?

In the late 1800’s, the pioneering French doctor Philippe Tissié observed that phobias and epilepsy could be beneficial for athletic training.

C • I'm up right? 1

To work.
To lunch with BJ.
To Science Museum for a showing of "Arabia". Having watched the first part of "Laurence of Arabia" last night (David's homework for Arabic class), this was pretty nice timing.

Have had a few arguments with David about sleep schedule, so for the record I'm putting a link to a NYTimes article about it here.

Shadowed David around the Boojum map. Mom and Dad went for a walk at the same time. Nice weather.

Rode with Izzy to her soccer practice and back.

I'm going by NM time for bedtime tonight, b/c the plane doesn't get into Boston until late.

To a Dunkin Donuts on San Mateo where I picked up food for Dave & the kids.

Along path of old route 66. Checked out some petroglyphs.