Running Journal, Tuesday, 2007-01-09

Running Journal, Tuesday, 2007-01-09
Resting heart rate: 61 bpm (60 second test, evening)
BMI: 23.433
Weather: n/a
Temp: n/a
Time: 20:45-22:25
Terrain: flat
Comments: Dawn and I did a cross-training day at the California Family Fitness in Orangevale this evening. We both cycled for 45 minutes. She watched Animal Planet's Purrfect Predators while I silently watched bits of boxing, the January 2 Galt City Council meeting, the movie The Mummy Returns, what seemed to be an early season-two Veronica Mars episode on the CW, and Squirrel Boy (season one, episode 2, The Big Haggle Hassle) on the Cartoon Network. How different than being outdoors. x_x Afterward, Dawn and I relaxed in the hot tub for 15 minutes. I felt really good after getting off the cycling machine. I set the target heart rate to 135 and after 45 minutes my upper legs felt great. I felt dizzy after cycling and after getting out of the hot tub though. Ugh. This happens every time I use the treadmill or the cycling machine. I think my visual and tactile systems get messed up for 45 minutes since one reports I'm moving and the other reports I'm standing still. I'm enjoying positive experiences at the gym though, after negative experiences with forced weight training and exercise in high school. I'm on a different schedule now with cross-training instead of walks, in preparation for a 4:40 marathon time in April for the Big Sur Marathon.
Time: 45 minutes
Goal Time: n/a
Distance (cycling): 27.42 km (17 mi)
Total Running Distance For Year: 6.45 km (4 mi)
Weight (after run): 80.2 kg (176.8 lbs), 19% body fat
Any irregular feelings, aches, pains, heart rate, and so forth?: Kneecaps felt a bit loose when I began cycling but after a minute felt fine
Foods eaten today: crumpets with jam, orange juice, jasmine rice, lentil soup, A&W Root Beer

Running Journal, Monday, 2007-01-08

Running Journal, Monday, 2007-01-08
Resting heart rate: 62 bpm (60 second test)
BMI: 23.374
Weather: sunny, 2 m/s wind
Temp: 12 C (53.6 F)
Time: 15:00-15:45
Terrain: flat
Comments: Oh dear, while researching my BMI today I realized I'm 185 cm tall instead of 175 cm. x_x I dropped 6% body fat today without exercising anything but my mind. :) *stretches* Yep, enough work for today. ;) Also realized I haven't done one of these since Nov 22, 2006, though I've been working out. x_x Dawn and I went to the California Family Fitness gym this afternoon. We purchased a membership in December because Dawn's ankle has hurt a few times while running. She broke it during college and still has hardware that needs to be removed before she can run outdoors like she used to in high school. So low-impact gym training is what we decided to do. Today I watched Avatar: The Last Airbender (episode Lake Laogai) and Spongebob Squarepants.
Time: 45 minutes
Goal Time: n/a
Distance 6.45 km (4 mi)
Total Distance For Year: 6.45 km (4 mi)
Weight (after run): 80.0 kg (176.4 lbs), 20% body fat
Any irregular feelings, aches, pains, heart rate, and so forth?: None
Foods eaten today: blueberry yogurt, toaster waffles with maple syrup, cottage cheese, portabello mushroom burgers, brownie and ice cream, pecans, manzanilla olives, garlic mashed potatoes

Inventor of Ramen Noodle Dead at 97

Momofuku Ando.

Flotation Belt

Jeff Galloway recommends water running in combination with a flotation belt as an effective form of cross-training

Nixie Tube Clock

Nixie tube clocks :) :) :)

So expensive :( :( :(

I am a C programmer and I'm okay

I logged in this evening and found this fortune:

Oh, I am a C programmer and I'm okay
I muck with indices and structs all day
And when it works, I shout hoo-ray
Oh, I am a C programmer and I'm okay

Hoo-ray ;)

Hyphens Versus Underscores

The controversy. I'm a hyphen-man at the present.

Running of the Bulls

I found a video of the 2006 Running last night on Youtube while looking for bullroarers. A blogger's viewpoint from Pamplona:

The history is very simple: long ago, when the shepherds would bring the bulls from the countryside to Pamplona they would spend the night close to the city and on the day of the bullfights, before dawn, enter running under vigilance of people on horseback and on foot helping with sticks and yelling to enclose the bulls.

With the passing of time, which knows when, people began to run behind and eventually in front. And this, which began as an aid to the shepherds, has turned into a peculiar custom which has come to define San Fermin: el encierro (or the enclosing).

In the beginning, the first section of the run La Cuesta de Santo Domingo (the hill of Santo Domingo street) was reserved for butchers and the number of runners never was that great.

The runs last an average of three minutes and occur July 7-14 at 08:00. Map.

E Clampus Vitus

I saw a small Clamper bumper sticker on a van last week. ^_^ They seem even more hilarious than the Odd Fellows groups I saw on the way to Yosemite in December:

All members are officers and all officers, the organization professes, are of equal indignity.

Sacramento's New Helvetia Chapter meets the third Tuesday of each month at Round Table Pizza. What, not Mountain Mike's? ;)

The Sacramento Odd Fellows have a IOOF Hall at 1831 Howe Ave.

Tallis Scholars

Thanks for turning me on to this group so many years ago Jared Heuschele! :)

KYDS Songs

Some more songs I've heard these past weeks:

Calgary, Alberta-based Tegan and Sara's "Time Running" from their 2003 album, "If It Was You," on the Vapor/Sanctuary label. Video. I'm becoming a Tegan and Sara nut (at least from this album).

Philadelphia-based Zolof the Rock & Roll Destroyer's "Plays Pretty For Baby" from their 2002 album "Zolof the Rock & Roll Destroyer" on the Law of Inertia label. Video (soundtrack).

How to Read a Painting: Lessons from the Old Masters

Yet another book I will never find time to read but wish I could absorb somehow while asleep. ;) Dawn thinks I saw this the last time we visited the Crocker Art Museum and I think she's right.

Japanese Cherry Blossom

Speaking of Dawn's favorites, her favorite Bath & Body Works scent is Japanese Cherry Blossom. ^______^ <- representation of Dawn with Japanese Cherry-scented products.

America's Best Coffee

Dawn and I visited Apple Hill's Boa Vista Orchard recently and Dawn fell in love with America's Best Coffee. The weather was wet, chilly, perfect for a nice cup of joe.

Hungritarian

Dawn says I came up with the word hungritarian to describe my eating habits. I'm normally vegetarian but not strictly so. I felt some disappointment tonight when a Google search revealed that someone else seems to have come up with the term. Life goes on. ;)

Ashleigh Brilliant

I write down things sometimes in the hopes of remembering to look them up when I get to an internet-enabled device. Sometimes I forget why, as in the case of Ashleigh Brilliant. I love his wit! Most likely I wrote this down after experiencing yet another installment in the "Oh, you don't know about Ashleigh Brilliant?" generational-gap exercise. ;) He wrote a song about Haight-Ashbury. :)

Star Sonata

My local Safeway's public restroom had the words starsonata.com written on the toilet-paper dispenser. Figures it's a MMORPG. x_x

People to People Lending

Prosper.com enables people to lend money to each other directly regardless of geography. The business provides details about all the normal concerns like credit history so individuals can make their own decisions on how much to loan.

Our Daily Bread

"Our Daily Bread is a wide-screen tableau of a feast which isn’t always easy to digest - and in which we all take part. A pure, meticulous and high-end film experience that enables the audience to form their own ideas."

Bullroarers

I love the sound bullroarers produce. Like most Americans my first experience was Crocodile Dundee.