Training Log Archive: CleverSky

Rested intently, but then went in to work for a little bit to finish up one thing that will allow something to get shipped out next week.

It's a cold.

Leaving for a week of vacation, I tried to wrap some things up and leave notes as to how things can get done in my absence. I'm pretty sure it won't happen; either no prototypes will get produced or tested, or else it will be done wrong. I have managed to make myself indispensable in something that I didn't even particularly have expertise. But then again, maybe I'm wrong and everything will be fine.

50 situps, 25 squats.

Is this a cold coming on, or allergies? I'm guessing it's the former, but not certain. Great timing, with vacation about to start...

Mystery Blazes LSwamp. Haven't been out for a run in a while, but I left work early enough to get to FedEx in plenty of time to ship some stuff out, after the lab equipment stopped working and I couldn't calibrate any more parts anyway. And I realized that it was early enough that I could probably get outside if I did it as soon as I got home. So I changed and headed out the door at probably 6:15 PM. I brought a small headlamp just in case, but never quite needed to pull it out. In the fading light, I made a few wrong turns (or missed turns) on the faint trails, but never got more than a few steps before correcting. I would have been content with anything under 50 minutes, so this was fine. Cloudy evening, but the temperature was nice. I tried to spend my time thinking about what I would post about the run, since it was about the only way I could keep my mind off of work.

Meant to keep up the exercising, but the evening slipped away.

50 situps, 25 squats. After a solid week of no gratuitous exercise, at least I did something.

Mom's surprise 85th birthday party and the Lund family reunion, at Nancy's house. A few long shots who we were hoping to see didn't make it, but the turnout that we did get was wonderful:

Back row: J-J (known as Jean at this gathering), and my first cousins Jeff and Craig
Next row: Mom, her cousin Dick, Barbara (Dick's wife), Susan (Jeff and Craig's mother), and Karen (Dick and Barbara's daughter)
Kneeling: Alan (my brother), Meghan (Alan's wife), Elizabeth (Craig's wife)
Kids in front: Celia and Geneva (Alan's daughters), Alison and Nick (Jeff's kids).
Also in attendance were my mother's friend Mary, Stephen (who was behind the camera), and Nancy (who wasn't home from work yet).