02-12 Feb: The End of a Year-Long Study

02 FEB -- 37:34 -- 4.56 miles -- 355 elevation gain
03 FEB -- upper body weightlifting -- stationary bike 5 miles
04 FEB -- off
05 FEB -- 41:02 -- 5.14 miles -- 443 elevation gain
             -- upper body weightlifting (afternoon)
06 FEB -- 48:39 -- 4.71 miles -- 758 elevation gain
07 FEB -- 40:00 -- 3.15 miles -- 217 elevation gain
08 FEB -- 1:22:13 -- 10.53 miles -- 578 elevation gain

TOTAL -- 4:09:28 -- 28.09 miles -- 2351 elevation gain

The 3.15-mile run on 07 Feb was our first family run together.  We ran through our neighborhood with the stroller and one of those $5 portable speakers hooked up to some tunes.  It was 60 degrees so Little Man enjoyed it just as much as my photographer and I.




09 FEB -- 34:31 -- 3.58 miles -- 420 elevation gain
             -- upper body weightlifting -- stationary bike 4 miles (afternoon)
10 FEB -- stationary bike 5 miles (morning)
             -- stationary bike 5 miles (afternoon)
11 FEB -- 37:25 -- 4.70 miles -- 451 elevation gain
12 FEB -- stationary bike 5 miles (morning)
             -- 20:00 -- 2.00 miles -- 0 elevation gain (treadmill, afternoon)

TOTAL -- 1:31:56 -- 10.28 miles -- 969 elevation gain

This week, I started a push-up/pull-up program for the next 8 weeks.  This was my end of the bargain to get a friend to run the JFK 50 Mile last November, which he did and, so, now I am...I'll be doing 3 max sets of push-ups every morning, Monday through Friday, as well as a scripted pull-up routine each night that cycles on a weekly basis.  Goal: do 30 straight pull-ups come April.

Also, on 12 Feb, I finished my year-long study about Malcolm Gladwell's idea that spending 10,000 hours practicing something makes you an expert in that field.  I'll post more about this later once I compile all the data and ponder over it for a bit.  It should be interesting and I am excited to compare it to Gladwell's theory in Outliers.  At first glance, I'm estimating that I spent less than 400 hours running last year.  Therefore, by the time I'm an "expert" according to Gladwell I will likely be on my third set of knees with one foot in the coffin.  There is much more to it and I intend to get into the weeds later on.  Right now, my focus is on finishing out the final 3-weeks of my Corporate Finance MBA class and writing my 2,000-word paper for Expeditionary Warfare School.