11 August 09 pm

Workout notes AM: 4 mile walk (50′ish or about 12:30 mpm)
PM: public track meet; 2 mile warm up,
800 meters in 3:18 (1:36, 1:42). I had to force myself to try to speed up on lap 2.
some stuff to keep lose
5000 meters: 26:30 (8:07, 8:31, 8:43, 1:07).
I didn’t have a lot left but I should have finished stronger than I did.

It was somewhat warm (81 F, 54 percent humidity) and the track made it feel a bit warmer, but mostly it was the 800 that took it out of me. Three ladies got away from me; the one in shiny black spandex was doing a perfect pace (8 minutes) but I couldn’t stay with her and the other lady who I got away from a bit early got me in the last 100 m. One just stayed out of reach the entire time.

Mathematics notes My progress on the paper write up continues. I found that I was a bit too terse in one of my “bounded below” arguments though I was correct.

Town Halls
Yes, I wish that single payer were on the table but it isn’t. But watch Senator McCaskill handle hecklers:

More Republican stupidity
Have you heard about “union thugs” who got into a health care event ahead of Republican protesters? It is partially true; the SEIU sponsored an event and reserved seats for some of the members and those members were let in. Yes, that is what the Republicans were complaining about.

Elections: an essay which basically argues that President Obama won mostly because it was a Democratic year; outside of the heavily Appalachian states he outperformed Kerry by about 5 points across the board.

Science/Nature: yes, a new species of frog: the flying frog was discovered.

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