Week 8: Strength and Distance

It was a crazy day today. In fact, the entire week has been hectic. Shell spent the week in Baton Rouge, I spent the week finishing up demos of 2 projects, submitting content for 3 papers, writing a demo from scratch for a Friday SC09 deadline, and still trying to find time to work out. It was insane to say the least. The good news is I got everything but the SC paper done. We decided to push that to a poster submission to give us more time for results and some interesting research. I think the only thing I didn't do this week was sleep. I'm going to enjoy that sometime very, very soon.

Tuesday's run was uneventful: 40 minutes around tacc. Fun, but nothing notable except for the sore hammies.

Wednesday's run was cancelled due to insane weather and me tunneling in on my deadlines for the week.

Thursday's run was great. It was supposed to be 3 miles easy. I wound up running with Michael G and John after work. I started out on my own, met up with Michael, ran with him for 15 minutes until he had to leave, then caught up with John as Michael was turning away and ran with him during his workout. Total duration was 54 minutes. I felt great afterwards and my hammies finally started to loosen up. Once the run was over, I headed to the Y to do some strength training. Everything went smoothly. I ran through the same workout as always. Bench went up to 165, Front standing raises went up to 20's. Tri pressdowns were with the ropes. Met a guy from South Carolina at the gym. Pretty cool guy. He kept telling me he wants to find something else to do in the medial field because he thinks he's not getting paid what he's worth. I had to bite, so I asked what he thought he was worth. He said $25/hr. Maybe it's me, but even I know he's worth more than that. Who sets their own personal value at 50k/yr. Depressing, but common.