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August 23rd, 2006
03:30 pm - Rest day
Life has been nearly overwhelming. After the last post:
- dinner w/ friends & their 2 kids
- trip to aquarium w/ other friends
- went to Sesame Place
- went to Crayola Factory
- cleaned & prepped house for visit
- visit from Aunt L and Aunt A
- during visit went to 6 Flags and Wild Safari
- during visit had an early b-day party for T
- during visit went to Atlantic City (I climbed a rock wall there at the amusement rides -- great fun but sore the next day)
- had friends over to celebrate wedding (great food, many bottles of wine)
- b-day party for T at preschool (he turned 4!)
- b-day party for T on weekend at Chuck E. Cheese
- 3 b-day parties for T's friends (everyone is turning 4)
- moved mulch
- dug up manhole cover of septic tank
- found week old green beans in back of Subaru - horrible smell - experiment gone terribly wrong -- cleaning up was fun
- chapter nearly done but then lost part of it due to saving error -- sadly have to reconstruct some of the work -- J has written 5 chapters in the time it has taken me to write one -- I suck
- worked
- kids are sick, waking up at night
- haven't slept more than 5 hours in a single night in over two weeks...3-4 hours last night
T wants to be a robotic engineer. He's becoming a good conversationalist on the phone.
R says "dis" all the time. He is very curious and has a strong will. He will not be denied.
There's much more but I can't remember it all.
Somewhere in there, I'm still running. I haven't lost as much weight as I had hoped but I'm holding steady on the negative side of the equation. I'm proud of a couple runs. A week and a half ago on a day when I had slept little and felt tired I managed to run a 6:15 mile and still had enough left to finish a 5K in less than 22:30. I didn't even think I was going to run that day. That gave me encouragement. On another day when I felt cramps b/c I was mildly sick I managed to run 8.1 miles including a sub-23 5K. Yesterday, I only managed a 6:30 mile. My times are going in the wrong direction! It's clear that I'll need everything to go just right, training, diet, weather, sleep, etc. to break the 6 minute barrier. It's a huge challenge, especially on my chosen route. The first .4 miles, being uphill, is a killer. I always feel blasted before the half mile mark. But I'm going to give it all I have (within currtent life constraints). We'll see. One and a half weeks left.
Classes about to start up.
On a positive note, research keeps finding that exercise and maintaining reasonable body weight prolongs life. You think?
I did some math.
If I exercised 4 hours a week for 35 years and it only gained me one year of life back then it would still be a good investment of my time. Why?
4*52*35=7280 hours invested
24*365*1=8760 returned
I will get a 20% return on every hour invested. In the meantime, I also feel happier and healthier. Plus I save money (lowered insurance rates, fewer medical bills, etc.).
The reality is probably even better. Assume I exercise 4 hours a week for 50 years (yes 50!). If that gained me a mere 4 additional years of longevity then for every hour invested I'd get more than 3 hours back. If only the stock market or bank accounts worked like that.
4*52*50=10,400 hours invested
24*365*4=35,040 returned
I think I'll keep exercising regardless of the math.
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