Friday, June 12, 2026

06-12-2026 Run/Swim

Woke up around 5:30, it was already pretty light outside. I love this part of the year for that reason. I had gotten up in the night and had a bowl of cereal and a banana, probably too much caffeine the previous day. Got ready for a run, and I started around 5:40 after stretching out my hamstrings in particular. Down by the park, beginning at a faster pace than usual. I did the 5k route and had significant negative splits throughout, including a 7:12 third mile, where I was working pretty hard. Finished the 5k and walked uphill the rest of the way home.

Avg pace = 7:34/mi
Total distance = 3.17 mi
Elapsed moving time = 23:59
Avg heartrate = 135 bpm
Relative Effort = 14

Had a little time after I got back, so I started cleaning up my cycling analysis program code, taking out some redundancies in the code and replacing them with a common function. Got that done successfully, and I packed up my stuff for a swim at the WWC. I met Avi there, didn't have a lot of time, so I ended up swimming four 250s at tempo, followed by a cool-down 100, with a pull buoy. My stroke got increasingly ragged as time passed, so I still need a lot more work to build my endurance at high pace. Here are the split times: 4:13, 4:10, 4:19, 4:16, 1:47. I did try mixing in breathing every three strokes, and at the end of the 250s I was breathing every two strokes and pushing hard in an effort to sprint. I didn't record the last 100 on my watch.

Avg pace = 1:43/100 yds (Video, not counting pauses)
Total distance = 1100 yds
Elapsed moving time = 18:54 (Video)
Avg heartrate = 144 bpm (just for the first 1000, perhaps)
Relative Effort = 27 (for the first 1000, perhaps)
SWOLF = 35 (for the first 1000)
Avg stroke rate = 23 bpm (for the first 1000, more strokes to go faster)
Avg pull distance = 2.35 yds (for the first 1000, see above)

Got done with the swim and took a shower in the locker room, then changed to ride over to the new HP San Diego site and meet Hongwei and Paula for a tour of the facilities. I saw a lot of folks I knew, which was cool. The space is definitely more compact but workable, I think, given the charter of the HPSD site. Had coffee in the break area and saw more folks stopping by or walking through. All in all it was a very nice little diversion, I'm thankful to Hongwei for volunteering to give us the tour. I rode home after that, did a little more packing and organizing of stuff for the Hawaii trip before riding my scooter down to Mom's Pizza in Sorrento Valley to meet some ex-LEP folks for lunch. At the lunch were: James, Rima, Kyle, Dan, Bor-Jiunn, Hongwei, Anna, Rachel, and her husband and baby daughter. I talked mostly to Dan, Anna, Rachel, and her husband. Food was good, so was the service. Anna and Dan are now working down in Sorrento Valley. Took 35-40 minutes to get there, stopped to get money from the CU on the way back. I was pretty weary when I got home but needed to finish packing and checking my travel list. Got it all done without much time to spare. Emily and Caleb showed up around 3:30, we packed the car, and then we drove down to the airport parking lot. A little traffic on the 163 near I-8 but not as much as feared. We got to the airport by 4:30, and of course my phone wouldn't connect. Had to restart it twice before it started working, but we got through security okay and to the gate with plenty of time. Caleb gate-checked his bag, so we got to board with an earlier group. The flight wasn't full, Ann and I had empty middle seats next to us. Got free high-speed Starlink internet, courtesy of T-Mobile, it worked great. Flight was long, I dozed a number of times. We arrived early, even though we left late, and I hustled over to the Thrifty rental car counter to make sure I got there before it closed. No issues there, I got the car and waited for the others to arrive on the tram after picking up their luggage. Drove to the Airbnb in Kihei with no issues and got into the place fine, then it was to sleep after a long day. 

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