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health
- Running in 2025
I started out the year with the goal to run 1,000 miles. No other rules or restrictions, just get the miles in. That meant keeping a steady pace throughout the whole year. It worked out to 2.74 miles/day, the hardest…
- Scans Update
Just this afternoon I finished up another round of scans at Mayo Clinic — my standard regimen of an hour-long MRI of the abdomen and a CT scan of the chest / lungs. Everything went routine and the worry level leading…
- Goal Progress: November
We had a hurricane blow up part of a week of productivity around here, but I still limped along with some middling progress on the year's goals. I'm behind the targets this year late in the game, but I'm still happy w…
- Goal Progress: October
October is over already? At this rate, it'll be New Years in no time flat. Anyway, let's check in on the 2020 goals: | Activity | Progress | Pace | Goal | Plus-Minus | |----------------|---------------|--------------|…
- Goal Progress: September 2020
For the month of September: | Activity | Progress | Pace | Goal | Plus-Minus | |----------------|---------------|--------------|--------------|----------------------------------| | Running | 484.26 miles | 488 miles |…
- Goal Progress: August 2020
Another month down of quarantine life. | Activity | Progress | Pace | Goal | Plus-Minus | |----------------|---------------|--------------|--------------|----------------------------------| | Running | 426.44 miles |…
- Goal Progress: July
A quick touch on progress for July. I can't believe it's already been 5 months since the beginning of the pandemic. | Activity | Progress | Pace | Goal | Plus-Minus | |----------------|---------------|--------------|-…
- Goal Progress: June
These updates during the quarantine are weird. In some ways time feels like it's standing still, in others it feels like it's flying by. Every day feels mostly the same. Even though some has opened up in our area, we'…
- Goal Progress: May 2020
Just a quick update this month. With the pandemic still going, lockdown in a state of unknown non-committal from any authority, and the madness going on around the nation the past week, all of this seems kinda trivial…
- Choosing Fitness
So many bits in this post from David Smith resonate with me. He committed to getting in shape 3 years ago, and this post is a summary of thoughts on what works and what doesn't. A key takeaway is one that should be ob…
- Goal Progress: April 2020
April was the first full calendar month of COVID lockdown. In the beginning of the month I started getting comfortable with the working-from-home setup. I have a decent desk setup and a large master bedroom-slash-offi…
- Goal Progress: March
So March has wrapped, probably the longest month we've had in many years. The shake-up in schedule, work-life patterns, and disruptions in everything from kids, to family, to day-to-day activities played absolute hell…
- LessWrong Coronavirus Links Database
A great resource for data, research, papers, articles, and more.
- Things That Will Change
This is a weird time. The COVID-19 pandemic is the biggest global event that's happened in my lifetime. It hasn't impacted me personally that much (yet), but the financial and public health implications are clearly al…
- Face Masks: More Than You Wanted to Know
There's been non-stop discussion lately on Twitter about protective equipment: efficacy, supply chains, costs, you name it. Scott Alexander has the definitive analysis of N95 face masks. The title says it all.
- Weekend Reading: Chess, COVID Tracking, and Note Types
♟ Chess Tom MacWright on chess. Reduce distraction, increase concentration Once you have concentration, you realize that there’s another layer: rigor. It’s checking the timer, checking for threats, checking for any of…
- The 5 Revolutions in Cancer Treatment
This talk from Jonathan Lim gives a good overview of how the newest treatments for cancer work — radiation/chemo, targeted therapies, immunotherapy, and ecDNA. I wrote about my experience with immunotherapy and how it…
- Goal Progress: February
A quick update for February. No big revelations or movements on goals, just slight progress. | Activity | Progress | Pace | Goal | Plus-Minus | |----------------|-------------|-------------|--------------|------------…
- The Coronavirus Would Be Worse Without the Web
Tyler Cowen's recent piece in Bloomberg makes the case that technology is helping, not hurting the cause of containing the pandemic. The openness of the web was certainly instrumental in forcing transparency on the pa…
- First Race of the Year
I just committed to my first race of the year, a 10K in the St. Pete Distance Classic. Sort of a seat-of-the-pants commitment, but should be able to do a competitive personal time (maybe a PR if I feel good enough). I…
- Goal Progress: January
The first month of 2020 is already in the books. 31 days blew by already? It’s been a rollercoaster of a first few weeks, with some vacation at New Years, shot out of a cannon with a reinvigorated team at work, a trip…
- 2020 Goals
Last year was my first serious attempt at setting goals at the outset with structure and plan to hold myself accountable to each one throughout the course of the year. "Goal orientation" is not my native approach to m…
- Goal Summary: Running Stats
Continuing my summaries from a couple weeks ago, this post covers some statistics on running throughout 2019. I track all of my runs with a Garmin fenix 5 watch synced to Strava, but also have been logging each one to…
- The Infinity Machine
This one is part book review and part reflection on some personal experience, a chance to write about some science related to a harrowing past experience. A couple of years ago I had a run in with genetics-gone-wrong,…
- 600 Miles
The goal at the start of 2019 was to hit 500 miles running this year. Tonight's run pushed me up to 602 miles for the year, with a couple of weeks left to go. Through the mid-summer time I was only averaging 42 to 45…
- Goal Progress: November
This was a busy one. Between the All Hands earlier in the month and the week off for the holidays, those are brutal to maintaining the routine (though great to get a break and spend time with both workmates and family…
- Goal Progress: October
The big achievement this month was the culmination of the half marathon training, ending October by finishing my first one. | Activity | Progress | Pace | Goal | Plus-Minus | |----------------|--------------|---------…
- 13.1
Today I finished my first half marathon. Felt great until about mile 10 when things got a lot harder. The final mile was painful, but I got it done and even ended up pushing it to under a 10 minute mile average pace (…
- Goal Progress: September
In September the training push continued for the half marathon. I did a personal record 88 miles in the 30 days, for an average of just about 3 miles per day the whole month. Somehow I'm not dead yet, but the aches an…
- A Quick Running Update
I'm almost at the two-month mark since upping my mileage at the beginning of August. I did about 72 miles in August, up from an average of less than 50 per month the prior months of the year. With 3 days left in Septe…
- Labor Day
The kids had a great holiday — a beach day with their cousins, lunch on the beach together, then an evening playtime slash barbecue over at a friend's house for dinner. It was the first beach trip here at home since p…
- Goal Progress: August
This month I made a concerted effort to kick it into a higher gear with the running. Mid-month was the start of the Strava training plan I'm going to try and follow for race preparation. | Activity | Progress | Pace |…
- Elevate for Strava
Jason turned me onto this Chrome extension for Strava data analysis called Elevate. It's a pretty amazing tool that adds deep analytics on top of the already-rich data Strava provides natively as part of their Summit…
- Group Training
Our SNI running club on Strava keeps expanding. We've got 12 members now and counting. Two people are committed to marathons in the fall, and two of us to half-marathons. Somewhere in reading about marathon training I…
- Long Runs
When I committed to the half marathon for October, I also enabled one of Strava's Summit training plans to keep me honest on the times and distances I should be ramping up with as I prep for that race. My personal goa…
- Team Rubicon Leverages Fulcrum in Cyclone Idai Response
This is the kind of stuff that gets you out of bed in the morning and really gets the motivators up to do things like Fulcrum Community to support disaster relief efforts. When Cyclones Idai and Kenneth steamrolled in…
- Watts vs. Speed
After a long ride today, I was looking at the stats on Strava and wondering how wattage calculations work to determine power. Strava has a built in estimate it uses for your power rating if you don't have a power mete…
- Half Marathon
I've committed myself to running my first half marathon, coming up in October. This sort of happened on a challenge from a couple folks at work. I didn't really intend to throw something like this into the schedule th…
- Goal Progress: July
I had surprisingly good results on goals this July given how much was going on all month. | Activity | Progress | Pace | Goal | Plus-Minus | |----------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|-------------…
- Interview with Keith Flaherty, MD
Dr. Keith Flaherty is an oncologist specializing in targeted therapy treatments, with a background in studying and treating varieties of melanoma. I listened to this extended interview with him on Peter Attia's The Dr…
- Cycling Commute
This week I tried out commuting on the bike, like I posted about earlier this week. It's a comfortable, nice ride with a dedicated bike lane the whole way from my house, a block away from the Island Loop through Shore…
- Garmin fenix 5
Wearables have become such a big market these days that there's a wide variety of options to pick from if you want to monitor activity metrics. From the basic Fitbit step counters to more ruggedized outdoor watches to…
- Biking Again
Last weekend I got the bike back up and running again. It’s been out of commission in the garage since the move a few months ago. Just had to clean it up a bit and put some air in the tires and it’s good to go. I’ve g…
- Weekend Reading: Rhythmic Breathing, Drowned Lands, and Fulcrum SSO
🏃🏻♂️ Everything You Need to Know About Rhythmic Breathing I tried this out the other night on a run. The technique makes some intiutive sense that it'd reduce impact (or level it out side to side anyway). Surely to…
- Goal Progress: June
So that's a wrap on the month of June. This was my best month so far in terms of a consistent plan and feeling more productive with staying on target. Even with an out-of-town trip to visit the Cape and Jacksonville f…
- 18 Months Down
I just got back from a trip up to the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville for the every-three-month scans cycle. MRI and CT scans clear with only a couple minor things to monitor. These weekends are always a bit of a mental "…
- Run Shore Acres: Complete
Earlier this week I finished up my personal challenge to run all of the street segments in my neighborhood, Shore Acres. Here's the breakdown of stats to get there: Total distance: 125 miles — by my rough calculation…
- Running Kit
This year's annual target for running (pinned at the 500 mile mark) has me trying to figure out my own personal flow — what it takes to get a consistent, comfortable process for building the habit. The number one fact…
- Goal Progress: May
For the second half of the month I got into a good rhythm with every-other-day running. I was even able to push almost 5 miles beyond the pace target to end the month. I started running with the kids again in the jogg…
- Neighborhood Run Progress
I'm making quick work of the streets of Shore Acres. Yesterday I set up a quick and dirty local database that I could load the tracks into. I'm just using the GPX export feature on each activity and the ogr2ogr comman…