I played my first game of either softball or baseball in nearly a year last night. It went well -- I was 4 for 4, caught a couple of fly balls, and our team won 25-7 (despite being outhomered 3 to 2 ( Read more... )

I played four innings of a practice baseball game today. Struck out swinging my first time up (after two foul tips and fouling off an offspeed pitch). Popped out to right field my second time up against a pitcher with more velocity. Caught one fly ball in the outfield, and had a chance to force a guy out at second, but I was too stiff and my ( Read more... )

We Tivo'd the premier episode of Marcel's Quantum Kitchen. Overall unpleasant, but some of the food itself was interesting.

Last night I noted that reality tv is like a fishing show where they didn't catch enough fish.

We went to see the Old '97s last night. As best as we can recall, our first indoor rock concert in over 20 years, and at that last show (B-52's Cosmic Thing tour in '89) we didn't see anyone older in the crowd. We did see Jonathan Richman in a bar 15+ years ago, and we've seen Cowboy Junkies and Squeeze outdoors in the past few years ( Read more... )

I had a dream earlier this week in which everyone had six eyes, arranged in 3 rows, each with a pair of eyes. For those who needed corrective lenses, the standard optometrist approach was to test just the middle pair of eyes, and then assume that the lower and upper pairs shared the same prescription. But I knew that this was an oversimpification ( Read more... )

For my training session today, my personal trainer Andrew had me try the 300 workout. The goal is to do -- as fast as you can -- 50 pullups, 50 135lb deadlifts, 50 pushups, 50 24" box jumps, 50 "wipers" (alternating-side leg raises) while holding 135lbs above your head, and 50 35lb clean and presses (25 with each arm). You can rest whenever you ( Read more... )

Great article on anti-oxidants and a related article on autophagy.

At this point, instead of fasting, I'm relying on Vitamin D (cited in the autophagy link) and iodine (see _Breast Cancer and Iodine_ by Dr. David M. Derry to promote healthy apoptosis (programmed cell death).

The UltimateTestLab visited on Tuesday ( Read more... )

I wasn't quite fully recovered from illness when I resumed training on Thursday. I did one round of sprints -- 15 yards in 2.90, 30 in 4.25 and 60 in 8.09. That suggests that my top speed suffered more than my early acceleration ( Read more... )

I've been feeling a bit ill for about a week. I cancelled my personal training session yesterday and took a short bike ride instead. Today I tried some jogging and that felt OK, so I did my dynamic warmup drills and tried a couple of 220 yard runs. I ran the first one in about 37 seconds and felt pretty comfortable, so after a 2 minute recovery ( Read more... )