After I got up, I decided to go for a ride instead of a swim, to test out my new Coospo ANT+ heartrate monitor I got from AliExpress. Down by the park and up Pomerado Rd to RB Rd, turning left there and riding up by the high school (a lot of traffic), then down to Twin Peaks Rd, where I turned right and ran into another block of traffic by the middle school. I stayed on this road through its transition to Camino del Norte, following it to Camino del Sur and then turning right on Four Gee Rd. Then I did the reverse of the extended route through the 4S Ranch neighborhood to get back to RB Rd. Home via W Bernardo Dr. I had a pretty good elapsed time, and the heartrate monitor seemed to work fine. For a while, I will post both HR data from the Coospo and my FitBit to see how the averages compare.
Avg speed = 17.3 mph. Total mileage = 22.7 mi
Avg power = 152 W. Weighted avg power = 179 W
Total elevation gain = 1440'
Avg heartrate = 122 bpm (Fitbit) and 127 bpm (Coospo)
After I got home and showered, Ann and I drove down to Balboa Park, intending to visit the Fleet Science Center on free admission Tuesday. But when we got there, we saw a ton of schoolkids waiting to get in and decided to skip it and plan for another day when we could avoid that rush. So we walked down to the Art Museum instead. It was a nice diversion, not super great in its collection but containing several interesting pieces. We drove home afterward and stopped at Krispy Kreme in CMR to get our two free donuts for voting on Super Tuesday. Lunch and a short rest afterward, then I went downstairs to have a snack. I made a little dish of ice cream and started unloading the dishwasher. While putting a couple of plastic containers in the cupboard, they fell out and knocked a bottle of soy sauce onto the floor, shattering it and creating a colossal mess. So, instead of doing some computer stuff I spent the next 45 minutes cleaning up this mess. Ugh!!! I was really frustrated. Got it all pretty much cleaned up, then I drove over to Carmel Mountain Dentistry for my initial visit and a dental cleaning. It all went well, they were extremely thorough in documenting the current state of my teeth. I met Dr Patel, and she didn't have any major concerns about and dental work needed. The actual cleaning went pretty quickly, MaryAnne, the dental hygienist, said I was doing a good job of keeping my teeth and gums in decent shape. Home after that, and getting caught up on my blog posts.
I finally finished Termination Shock. Stephenson brought many of the main characters together at the ranch in Texas where they were firing off sulfur rockets into the high atmosphere to create SO2 clouds up there and help reverse the greenhouse effect. The Sikh character, Laks Singh, ends up dying while trying to disable the rocket launcher. It was occasionally interesting, but in the end I didn't really relate to the characters all that much.
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