Turkey weekend at the beach.
Dog Mountain
( fun)
November 25th, 2011
November 25th, 2011
I went up Dog Mountain to work off Thanksgiving food. I think last year Ingrid and I did it in 1:20, today I made it up in 1:00:10, just missing under an hour. My average heart rate was 158, just about my anaerobic threshold, for the whole time. It was nice and snowy and cold up top, sometimes bad weather makes it more exciting.
Turkey Day
( fun)
November 24th, 2011
November 24th, 2011
Thanksgiving with Ingrid’s mom and brother, no turkeys were harmed but some pumpkins were taken out.
Books
( geek)
November 13th, 2011
November 13th, 2011
I have been working on various incarnations of a page for listing my books for a few years now. It started off as a way for me to see what books I had so I wouldn’t buy double, so it was a .wml page as my first phones were old. It eventually got to be a page that was only usable by me as a result of horrible design. One weekend I even spent both days scanning the covers for each of my books so I could show the covers. (That set of photos is lost in the ether.)
I just revamped the books page to be searchable by author or title. The author page has two views of the books, the traditional list and a coverflow view, with a icon to switch between the two. Hopefully it’s intuitive enough.
I used a few web services to cobble together images; books.google.com for book covers, and wikipedia for author photos (which sometimes is the wrong person.)
Plus now the books link is up top next to photos link
VO2 max test
( babble)
November 10th, 2011
November 10th, 2011
Last February I took a EKG stress test to get a baseline of my heart for future. It used the Bruce Protocol as part of the assesment, which extrapolated to a VO2 max number of 48.5.
Yesterday I went and took a proper VO2 max test at Bridgetown PT. The test consisted of running on treadmill with a mask and hose strapped to your face and a heart rate monitor. The test itself took ~15 minutes, starting at 4mph ramping up to 10mph. I ended up with a peak VO2 of 52.6 ml/kg/min.
Besides the VO2 number, I also got my Aerobic and Anaerobic numbers. My Anaerobic Threshold is only 157, so there is more work to be done.
| Zone | Low | Moderate | High | Peak |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR | 104-146 | 146-157 | 157-168 | 168-172 |
| C/hr | 245-943 | 943-1113 | 1113-1384 | 1384-1474 |
Updated photos
( geek)
November 6th, 2011
November 6th, 2011
I updated the photos to use a new javascript viewier – galleria. I think it looks a little cleaner and is really customizable. It still uses left & right arrows to move around; in addition the space bar will bring up a bigger version of the photo.
For development I finally got around using MAMP to mirror the website, which makes it much easier to see what’s what. I’ve also ditched FTP and am using rsync to mirror my mac and the website.
New fon photo site
( geek)
November 4th, 2011
November 4th, 2011
I am trying out tumblr over posterous as I like their theme more. So I updated the phone picture page to give it a whirl.
Opal Creek
( fun)
October 2nd, 2011
October 2nd, 2011
Ingrid, Sara, my parents and I went to Opal Creek for a long weekend. We had one good day of sunshine and another good day of rain.
Timelapse
Enchantments hike
( fun)
September 2nd, 2011
September 2nd, 2011
Sara and I hiked through the Enchantments in Washington. We were told to get to the top of Asgard Pass by noon, otherwise it’d be a long hike out in the dark. So we camped at Snow Lake trailhead and got a 4:30am shuttle to the Stuart Lake trailhead, getting us a 5am start. This got us to Colchuck Lake by the time the sun was hitting the peaks around us. We started the hike up the infamous Asgard Pass at 8:30 and topped out at 10, taking our time to enjoy the views as the hike up was actually pleasant.
We ate and drank near the top of the pass and enjoyed all of the views. The scenary is seriously underrated, even with all the hype. As we had all day and it was all downhill from here, we went slow and kept taking in the views and taking photos of the lakes and peaks. As we made it further down the trail we saw more campers and goats (one goat followed us until we screamed at it for a long while). It just got prettier and prettier.
We stopped a few times to eat our modern day lembas and filter water. At one lake crossing we soaked our feet in the 33 degree water and took a quick nap before heading on. We continued on following the myriad cairns and made it back down to the car an hour before sunset and in time to chow down on chinese pork and sandwiches.
Next time a camping trip would be in order, it would be great to stay a few nights and have more time to enjoy the lakes and not hassle with hiking it all in one day.
