Walking to Safeway

(Cross-posted to healthy_fen.)

Today's walk takes us down scenic Sand Hill Road at the leisurely pace of about three mph. After an interlude in Rivendell Safeway, during which provisions in the form of yogurt and beef jerky were obtained, we return on the slightly more strenuous Sharon Park Drive. The return trip is mostly uphill.

Stats: time: 1:04; avg: 110; max: 139.

Walking on flat ground at my old pace of 3mph gets my heart somewhere in the 100-110 bpm range. I can walk for hours at that pace as long as I stop every hour or so to take my shoes off and let my feet cool down. Otherwise I get blisters. Which I'm close to, right now.

It's Wednesday

Saw the first rainbow of the season this morning; it was drizzling on my way to work. By noon, fortunately, it was cool and clear: just right for walking.

After my walk (see previous post) I spent the entire afternoon programming. This mostly consisted of taking the quick hack of a Perl program I wrote yesterday and adding some code for, basically, computing the weighted average of a list of vectors. The pre-existing code I was working from was an earlier hack written in Objective C by somebody else. Fun! No, really. I don't get in quite as much programming as I ought to for my sanity and self-respect.

Tomorrow I have to go back, figure out how I really ought to compute that weighted average instead of faking it, and then convert the guts of the code from an egregious hack into a reasonably well-documented Perl module. It will eventually be open source. Meanwhile, one of my coworkers is in Japan using the egregious hack for a demo.