Week 17 Saturday

Activities/Actions:

• Tennis 8:30a with Seen Meng, P' Lek, Han, and Lingling
• Shopping with P' Lek

Stat:
Started 8:30a

Course condition:

How I felt:
(the 5-point scale)

• Physically 5
• Mentally 5
• About my nutrition 3
• About my sleep 3

How hard did I work? 6
(the 10-point scale)

Note and reflections:
Good games of tennis... a nice morning.. and a nice day ....

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Week 17 Friday

Activities/Actions:

• Dinner at Han's place
• Rest Day

Stat:

Course condition:

How I felt:
(the 5-point scale)

• Physicallyv5
• Mentally 4
• About my nutrition 5
• About my sleep 4

How hard did I work? n/a
(the 10-point scale)

Note and reflections:
Han and Stellar (Han's wife) invite Lingling and me to dine at his place. I bring Thai icetea with me. Han and Stellar cook4 dishes for us. They are all delicious. We have a nice dinner and conversation. After dinner, Han and I came back to lab and work. :)

Han says that he will run with me on Sunday to Air and Water Show at North Street Beach, though he has not been running for months.

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Week 17 Thursday

Activities/Actions:

• Ran 3 mile from home to 49th st. on lakefront path

Stat:
started 7:20p;

Course condition: good; nice, cool breez.

How I felt:
(the 5-point scale)

• Physically 5
• Mentally 3
• About my nutrition 3
• About my sleep 5

How hard did I work? 7
(the 10-point scale)

Note and reflections:
n/a

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Week 17 Wednesday

Activities/Actions:

• Squash; 2 games with P' Lek
• Ran 40 min tempo with P' Lek on Lab-to-Jackson Path (a 3 mile route)
  

Stat:
Started 7:10p; 40 mins

Course condition:

How I felt:
(the 5-point scale)

• Physically 5
• Mentally 3
• About my nutrition 4
• About my sleep 5

How hard did I work? 7
(the 10-point scale)

Note and reflections:
Good course temperature. I fanally can drake P' Lek for running with me. He is hard to be pursuaded.

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Week 17 Tuesday

Activities/Actions:

• 4 mile run on home to 47th St. (stopped at Siam Restaurant on 55th.)
  
• Droped Third off at Greyhound
• P' Noi came
  

Stat:
Started; 8p

Course condition:

How I felt:
(the 5-point scale)

• Physically 5
• Mentally 4
• About my nutrition 4
• About my sleep 3

How hard did I work? 6
(the 10-point scale)

Note and reflections:
P' Noi come to do experiment at the univesity today and will stay with me at least 4 nights. I run and come to meet her at Siam Restuarant.

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I bake cornbread, but use Baking Soda instead of baking power. This makes the bread not well. I found out that I cannot substitute baking power by baking soda. Actually, I thought they were the same.

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Week 17 Monday

Activities/Actions:

• Squash with P' Lek
• Stretched and Stengthened ~ 1 hour
• Picked Third up from airport
  

Stat:

Course condition:

How I felt:
(the 5-point scale)

• Physically 5
• Mentally 5
• About my nutrition 5
• About my sleep 2 (stayed up until 5a)

How hard did I work? 6
(the 10-point scale)

Note and reflections:
I went to pick Third (P' Oui's girlfriend) from O'hare with P' Lek. She flew from Thailand and transit here for a night before heading to Purdue University, where she will do her PhD. Only thing is that the information we had is Carthy Pacific flight number and terminal; however, Carthy does not fly to Chicago. So, we have to find out what is the co-share code flight. We ask a help lady, she does not know and advises us to ask the baggage clime airline rep. Yeahhhh.. long line so P' lek and I splits out: P'lek waits in line, while I go to make a phone call to airport service. Long wait both on line and in line.... finally, I win.. I got it... but at the moniter there is no such a flight, so we keep walking ask people at every belt where they came from... Finally at the last belt... and Third is waiting there... Get home around 11:30p!

I decided to bake banana and blueberry cake and in the morning I gave some to Third.

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Week 16 Sunday

Activities/Actions:

• 8 mile Run from home to and back from the 31st St. Beach

Stat:
Started 8:40; ~1 hour and 11 mins

Course condition: very good

How I felt:
(the 5-point scale)

• Physically 5
• Mentally 5
• About my nutrition 4
• About my sleep 3

How hard did I work? 7
(the 10-point scale)

Note and reflections:
Although the weather is suitable for running, there is an incident happenning at the 31st st. beach. There are a group of Chicago Rescuing team (Ambulances, Fire Trucks and Helicopters. I ask a guy in a emergency shirt for what is happening, he only says "we do't know yet." I leave him alone. The beach is close and it is pretty dark by then (9:15p). I ask a lady walking by; she says that a guy jumpped into the lake due to alcohol toxicity. I rest a bit before traversing my way back home. When I first saw the light at around 43 st, I thought something must happen near downtown.

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