Thursday, June 29th, 2006

Time	Event
1:11a	Late night training All the rain here has forced me indoors (read: away from beach volleyball) and given me the opportunity to focus on weight training. I've been going around midnight, when the gym in my building is usually empty save for a couple who seem to work out—and talk on their respective cell phones—around that time, too. I'm alternating between a night of machine work (5 minute stationary bike warmup, fly, chest press, pulldowns, row, and quads) and a night of cardio/free weights/flexibility (30 minute stationary bike, bicep curls, ab work). I'm also doing shoulder press every night to build up strength in my shoulder muscles—they've been somewhat creaky due to lots of volleyball and my shoulder injury a year and a half ago. I'm trying to keep this up for six days straight before I hit the sand courts again this weekend. I just finished up day four, and I'm still not that sore yet. (This is probably because I'm not going to failure every night, but I'm happy starting out at a moderate level and making sure I can still drag myself out of bed in the morning.) I'd still like to run a 5K this year, so I'll probably add some outdoor running into my routine soon. (At the very least I'm making an attempt to play doubles when I play volleyball, which makes me run a lot more than sixes.) I figure the stationary bike is at least helping me build up my stamina in the meanwhile. That and walking up the escalator at Rosslyn. (If I was a real hardass, I'd be sprinting up the Exorcist steps, too. But the humidity here has been disgusting.) Uh, okay. I'll have a more substantive (and less boring) post next time. Cheers! (Comment on this)
3:21p	Drinking milk (or not) Interesting tidbit via Wikipedia: "Since the majority of northern Europeans and some Mediterranean Europeans have the mutation rendering them lactose-tolerant, lactose intolerance is widely regarded as a medical condition in Europe and North America." "Since the first nations to industrialise and develop modern scientific medicine were dominated by people of Western and Northern European descent, adult dairy consumption was long taken for granted. Westerners for some time did not recognize that the majority of the human ethnogenetic groups could not consume dairy during adulthood." Also: "Approximately 70% of the global population cannot tolerate lactose in adulthood. Thus, some argue that the terminology should be reversed, lactose intolerance should be seen as the norm, and the minority Western European group should be labelled as having lactase persistence." I'm lactose intolerant, and I always just assumed that I was kind of weird for not being able to drink milk past childhood. (I had also surmised that this was an Asian thing, since a lot of the Asian people I knew were in the same boat.) But I had never considered just how prevalent my "condition" was. (Read the full Wikipedia article on lactose intolerance). (Comment on this)

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