swimming

2011-04-07 (Thursday)

Apr 072011

Morning Commute

This was the view as I approached downtown Houston this morning:

Apple Storage Order

I read here this morning that Apple just ordered 12 PB (Petabytes!) of storage from Isilon Systems, a division of EMC. Folks, a petabyte is a lot of storage. It is 10 ^ 15 bytes or 2 ^ 50 bytes, depending upon usage. The latter form is typically used in computer science circles, like when talking about RAM. To put it another way:

1 petabyte = 1000 terabytes
1 terabyte = 1000 gigabytes
1 gigabyte = 1000 megabytes
1 megabyte  = 1000 kilobytes
1 kilobyte = 1000 bytes

Untethered Jailbreak for IOS 4.3.1

Hooray! There is an untethered jailbreak for IOS 4.3.1. It works great!. I’m very happy to see this available now.

Cardio at Lunchtime

Got in a 1600 m swim workout over lunch at the LA Fitness near the office.

bulletproof node.js coding

Just ran across this excellent post from Stella Laurenzo’s blog.

Homeward Bound

Picked up some supper from Cafe Express on the way home.

Allen Parkway

Had to wait for a train in Humble

2011-04-05 (Tuesday)

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Apr 052011

Was a pretty slow day today. Did manage to get a 1600m swim working in during lunch over at the LA Fitness by Richmond and Weslayan.

The traffic was pretty heavy on the drive home. I ended up cutting through downtown Houston.

2010-10-05 (Tuesday)

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Oct 052010

Did a 2500 m swim workout this morning before work at the LA Fitness located at the intersection of Richmond an Cummins.

Happy Birthday!

A great big HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my sister, Christy Klokker!

2010-09-07 (Tuesday)

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Sep 072010

Swimming

Did a 2500 m swim workout this morning at the LA Fitness on Weslayan. I’ve started the Ironman workout schedule from Don Fink’s Be Iron Fit book. This was swim workout #1: 300 wu, 8x50 DR, 12x100 @20sec, 8x50 DR, 200 cd. Total time was about 56 minutes.

2010-08-03 (Monday)

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Aug 032010

Field Test

Split	Time	Moving Time	Distance	Elevation Gain	Elevation Loss	Avg Speed	Avg Moving Speed	Max Speed	Avg HR	Max HR	Avg Bike Cadence	Max Bike Cadence	Calories
Warm-Up	00:16:40	00:15:32	4.94	21	27	17.8	19.1	25.9	126	146	74	157	159
Test 1	00:06:52	00:06:51	3.01	6	0	26.3	26.4	30.0	158	163	84	95	91
Rest	00:10:06	00:09:21	2.49	35	19	14.7	15.9	22.1	127	158	62	79	76
Test 2	00:08:31	00:08:29	3.33	0	19	23.4	23.5	27.2	154	162	81	93	108
Cool-Down	00:18:31	00:18:04	4.97	27	24	16.1	16.5	24.7	128	145	70	96	114
Summary	01:00:41	00:58:17	18.73	89	89	18.5	19.3	30.0	134	163	72	157	548

Dangerous Driver of the Day

The driver of this vehicle almost caused an accident when he or she swooped across several lanes of traffic on HWY 59 S to get on the Weslayan exit. I had to brake hard to avoid hitting this person’s car which could have resulted in someone running into my car. For shame!

Brief lunchtime workout

Well I had intended to do some weight training during lunch today but got to the gym with no tennis shoes. As I was in no way going to dress out in gym clothes and dress shoes (shudder) I did some laps in the pool instead: Distance: 30 laps (1500 m) Duration: 00:30

2010-08-02 (Monday)

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Aug 022010

Swim, Endurance

After work today I stopped by the local LA Fitness and did a swim at a steady endurance pace. Distance: 2500 m Duration: 00:47

2010-07-12 (Monday)

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Jul 122010

Badwater

Folks today is the start of the 2010 Badwater ultra-marathon. For those not familiar with this event – It is a 135 mile run from Death Valley to Mount Whitney. Damn.

CrossFit

Made the 06:00 workout at UniversalCrossfit this morning. Today we did 5 circuits of:

clean & jerk x 5 (95)
deadlift x 5 (225)
pull-ups x 5
run 300 m

My time was 24:17 and I was a sweaty dog at the end of it.

Swimming

Took a short lunch break and swam for 30 minutes over at LA Fitness (which is about 2 blocks from the office). Total distance = 1600m (just under a mile).

2010-07-06 (Tuesday)

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Jul 062010

Universal CrossFit

Had my very first CrossFit workout. It was really intense. I went to Universal CrossFit, which is a cool place located at the intersection of Roy and Maxie Streets in what I think would be considered the Heights area of Houston. Our instructor was Jimmy. He went out of his way to make sure I understood all of the exercises and also the basic science and philosophy of CrossFit. I met Daniel, Victoria, and Jonathan. Our Workout Of the Day (WOD) was 5 sets of:

5 back squats
5 box jumps
5 wall ball
100m sprint
200m jog
jump rope x 2 min

Here is a (blurry) shot of the gym (box?): Right around the corner of the gym was a couple of very cool lots that had some metal art / art car action going on: