Training Log Archive: Nadim

Greenbelt Park, MD. Peggy and I returned to Greenbelt so she could run the annual Springburst race. Having never run that race yet myself (only helping with results and finish line efforts) I watched and played with Max. He and I did about 400m around the field. He started very well but after about 175m he asked me to carry him. Once I picked him up he told me to run--up the hill... then he ran downhill to the finish. PGRC had given Peggy and I free membership for this year--since we had moved we hadn't been going there much. After Peggy finished her race, I ran the old and mostly familiar Perimeter Trail starting and finishing from the Sweetgum parking lot. A lot of maintenance had been done on the trail include a few re-routings. Most of the re-routing was done to avoid erosion. It added a slight bit of distance to the original route.

With this being Friday the 13th, my bad luck was being too lazy after dinner to go out and run. I worked on the computer productively.

From the Friendship Heights Metro Station (Wisconsin Ave. and Western Ave.) to Dorset Ave. to Kennedy Dr. to Bradley Blvd. to Glenbrook Rd. to Battery Rd. to Rosedale Ave. I left work a bit late and ran with a backpack. I ran with the sprint map for PWF and read it the whole way imagining I was running the courses. Doing this on Wisconsin Ave. had the added difficulty of weaving through pedestrian traffic. The cherry blossoms were still going fairly well along Kennedy Dr.

Spinning in the basement watching the Daily Show and the Colbert Report mostly after 11pm. I felt like I was spinning fairly well with a good cadence. It was cold and raining outside.

New Orleans, LA. From Canal St. to Wolenburg Park, along the Mississippi River to Toulouse St. to Chartres St. to Canal St. I dragged myself out of bed early to get in a short run before my meeting. It was nice to see the city in person after all the stories read and watched about hurricane Katrina. The west side of town where the airport is seemed relatively good on the outside. In the downtown and inside the French Quarters the city looked somewhat better than before the hurricane. The Superdome had some discoloration from repairs. Fewer people were out on the streets than I remembered. Some storefronts were boarded up but Canal St. had gotten new sidewalks, new palm trees and was almost looking unscathed. Bourbon St. was the same. Music was in the streets. By looking around more carefully, I could see a big revolving restaurant on top of a building with heavy wind damage. It looked like someone bumped a flying saucer and it crash landed on the building corner. The view from my hotel toward Lake Ponchartrain revealed a big collapsed roof. I suspect worse ocurred inside buildings with mold damage. My meeting was on the east side of the city where the hurricane eye had turned as it missed the downtown. Destruction going that way was rampant with miles of boarded up apartment buildings visible along the interstate. Some had brick walls knocked down at the corners. The busiest place open seemed to be the Home Depot and only a few fast food places were open. Traveling this whole trip was slow. A lot of things moved at the pace of The Big Easy; including me.

45 situps in my hotel room in New Orleans, LA after a long day traveling and a fish platter at Acme's. I got to walk around just a bit with my boss.

45 situps after another busy day. Unlogged on this day was chasing/being chased by lots of Russian adoptees as well as towing them around in a wagon at a potluck.