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• Posted Hurdles! to Houristics
  2 sets plyos 5x single hurdle 5x double hurdle (lowest) 2 accelerations 3x300m at 58,56 and 57 seconds It felt really good to go over hurdles. My body remembers how to do it. The hurdles were so low it threw...
• Posted Yard work to Houristics
  None After a well-behaved trip to the dog park with Moxie and Keely, I spent a good part of the day working in the yard between thunderstorms....
• Posted Sweet Home Minnesota to Houristics
  1.5 hr tennis 300-200-100...
• Posted Latent class analysis vs. principle components analysis to Houristics
  And throw trees in here as well LCA PCA TREES Throw in a set of 'predictor' variables and an outcome variable. The software runs through each of the variables with different dichotomous cutpoints and chooses the variable and cutpoint...
• Posted D- to Houristics
  It is 7:40 PM and I am at WBOB with a partially finished paper. It is due tomorrow at 3. If it were not for the significance citations I would be in okay shape. I'm really disappointed with myself....
• Posted Blahg to Houristics
  3 x 400m 1 set dynamic stretches...
• Posted M'aidez! to Houristics
  3 miles 2 x plyometrics 1 x dynamic stretches 3 x arms [Mayday parade] Spring returned just in time for the Mayday parade. Every year it seems I decide it is a priority to go, but I have some Very...
• Posted Blahg to Houristics
  1 x plyometrics 3 x 200m 2 x leg isometrics I spent the morning in the dust and mold of the arrowhead collection, seem to have wasted time in the early afternoon, went to the Blue Door for the Longfellow...
• Posted Social networks to Houristics
  Seminar today was David Shoham (Loyola): Insights into childhood obesity using social network analysis and agent-based models Reasons for correlation within social networks Exogenous / Shared environment Correlation / Homophily Endogenous / Contagion Adjusting for baseline removes some degree...
• Posted Finding my religion to Houristics
  Skipped I took the new phone to the river this morning and was playing with it at the beach. Keely saw it in my hand and charged me. She figured I would throw the phone into the river for her....
• Posted Stretch to Houristics
  2 miles arm isometrics 40 minutes of stretching This was the first stretching session that felt good. Either I'm getting looser as I exercise more or the near 80 temperature did it....
• Posted Oh, bother to Houristics
  2 sets plyometrics 4 accelerations Leg isometrics In the morning I went down to take photos of Julie running the Get in Gear 10K. Seeing the top runners was a little inspiring. Keely was inspired to jump in the river....
• Posted Blahg to Houristics
  2 mile canicross to river 1 set plyometrics 3x300 2 sets isometrics(?) I finally signed up for the Zap bicycle commuter program todya. Just in time to seem like a fair-weather cyclist. I hope the tags work after being broken...
• Posted Diamond in the rough to Houristics
  This morning I was thinking of what to say in my performance evaluation (which was postponed) and came up with a new analogy about my critical side. I've thought of myself as being particularly good at spotting flaws and...
• Posted Now presenting part 1 to Houristics
  Unplanned rest day I presented at the Obesity Prevention Center work group today. I showed some information from Take Action and then talked about the grant proposal I'm working on for class. Not bad, but I felt like I didn't...
• Posted Old clothes to Houristics
  Ran home from work 1 set plyos 4 quarters (1 uphill) 1 set isometrics There was a patch of blue sky this morning to interrupt the snowy gray skies of mid-April. Swallow-sized birds were dipping down into the river this...
• Posted So much to do to Houristics
  Elliptical warmup Isometrics Sometimes - often during some periods of my life - I think about all of the things I want to do and feel great anxiety. Today this was brought on by reading the City Pages Best of...
• Posted Raiders of the Lost Basement to Houristics
  Rest I spent the morning with my mother digging through relics of my father's estate. We have between 600 and 1,000 pounds of arrowheads and other archaeological artifacts. The boxes along the back wall are entirely artifacts. Most of them...
• Posted Spring chickens to Houristics
  5 miles After 4 miles I got a pain in my calf, on the side of my achilles tendon. I'm going to spend more days resting than I planned, to ward off injuries....
• Posted An ill wind to Houristics
  2 miles canicross (to river) Plyometrics Found a gigantic plasma TV in the alley by Tony and Lisa's garage yesterday, with just a little hole in it and a crack all the way across the screen. Unfortunately it seems to...
• Posted Explosions to Houristics
  4 miles of canicross Joel Wegener was at the Boston Marathon. Fortunately he was done well before the explosions. But I'm talking about a different type of explosion. Jean wants to have the roof of Judith's house done right away,...
• Posted I'm a pro - at crastination to Houristics
  4 hill quarters at Franklin When it rains, it pours. Because I need to write my grant and create a presentation for class next Wednesday, create a separate presentation for the Obesity Research Group next Tuesday, and write up my...
• Posted ... to Houristics
  30 minutes on elliptical Stretching Waste of a day. Bicycle not finished, nothing accomplished....
• Posted Grade C to Houristics
  4 quarters plyometrics isometrics...
• Posted ICC - the Intra-class correlation coefficient to Houristics
  4 quarters with brief rests isometrics Intra-class correlation coefficient A measure of how similar members of groups are compared to how similar they are to others outside their groups. How much birds of a feather flock together. Think of a...
• Posted I spy with my eagle eye - Nice Fish! to Houristics
  2 miles - Ran to and from the river with Keely Today was beautiful - an inch of snow sticking to the branches and trunks of the trees. There's something different about a late snow. It was 30 degrees, but...
• Posted Loony Tunes to Houristics
  4 miles Ran home from WBOB along the river Today there are just a couple of ice patches left on the Winchell Trail. The air was wet and the sky cloudy, so much so that I thought it was foggy...
• Posted Retiring to Houristics
  4 miles with 6x1 minute faster runs 1&1/2 isometrics Tonight I hosted a great block club meeting. After 10 years of being the block club leader, I think I was stifling the block club. I did a lot, and people...
• Posted Roller derby to Houristics
  4 accelerations 1 400ish Went to the rollerderby, but left after the second first half. The second first half was pretty fun - more athleticism - but I was so tired....
• Posted It takes two to... cleanup to Houristics
  Rest - sort of Today was the Green Team cleanup. Right before it started I was stressed out because I didn't know if people had brought their things and it falls on me to remind everyone what they were to...