02-16-2026 Run

Slept fitfully, so did Ann. Too much coffee. I had some yogurt in the night, got up around 6:30 and got ready to meet Joe for breakfast at Pegah's Kitchen. Went out into the garage and found my scooter battery was dead because I didn't turn the lights off. Dammit! Ann was asleep, so I drove the car instead. Nice talk, mostly about Joe - retirement thoughts, Lindsay and family, the summer backpacking trip. I drove back and chilled for a while before going out for a run, hoping to get it in before the rain came. No such luck. It started as I was coming by the park on the way back, and it got pretty heavy. Got rather wet running back home without stopping. My pace on this run was intentionally slower, aiming for 8:30-9:00 miles. No pain in my right leg, although I could feel a little tightness there. Probably need to stretch before running.

Avg pace = 8:54.mi

Total distance = 3.31 mi

Elapsed moving time = 29:31

Avg heartrate = 127 bpm (Coospo)

Relative Effort = 9

https://www.strava.com/activities/17419540327

Dropped the medical forms over to Rob and Isabelle's house after I got back and changed into dry clothes. Chatted a little with Isabelle about retirement and some travel stuff. I had leftover Thai food for lunch, then Ann went off to play Mah-Jongg Ata neighbor's house. In the afternoon I worked with Arnold on getting a t-shirt designed and made for the Bisikleta century. I also took the scooter battery out by removing the seat and the under-seat well. Tried to trickle-charge that battery back to life but had no luck. So I used Emily's Amazon Prime account to order another battery for overnight delivery. Watched some TV in the late afternoon. Throughout the day I was playing around with the idea of automatically downloading my Wahoo Elemnt data, as a .FIT file, to Dropbox so I could pull the files out and save them for analysis by my cycling program. This file format is richer in data than the GPX files I've been downloading from Strava. Made incremental success in setting up the files to be uploaded to Dropbox once created, then in the evening I was successful in using Gemini to create Python code that finds the file in Dropbox and sends it to a Windows folder. It's pretty awesome. Need to implement a refresh token routine so I don't have to update the access token every time I want to run the program, that's the next step. Ann and I watched some TV in the evening.