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Wednesday, August 8th, 2007
Two hot races
This week and last week I have done the Howard County Striders’ weekly race series races. Last week it was a 10k; this week it was a 5k. They were both hot.10k: 47:15.The course was through housing developments and through the grounds of a school. It w…
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Thursday, July 26th, 2007
9 by mile
It’s three weeks until the race I’ve been training for all summer, so today I did my longest run: 20 miles. For various reasons, I decided that instead of going out and doing a normal 20-mile run, a big loop or something, I would do it as a track worko…
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Tuesday, July 10th, 2007
It’s fun to run; it makes me smile; I think I’ll run another mile. And another.
This summer, I am training for an endurance event. One might call it an ultra-endurance event, since it’s longer than a marathon, except that the running is broken up into chunks. In mid-August, I will be running 33 miles in six roughly equal chunks, w…
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Saturday, May 12th, 2007
Updated running PRs
I have run so many races in the last nine days that I have updated my page of running PRs. Interested? See Diana’s running PRs. I have PRs for 15 distances from 400m to marathon. I have raced other distances — 4 miles, 5 miles, and “fun runs” — but I…
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Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
Six days, four PRs
Friday night: 10k at Div III New Englands at Springfield. I run the first 5k in 21:17, exactly half of the time I ran 10k in the previous week. With one mile to go, I’d have to run a 6:15 last mile to get under 42 minutes. Impossible, I think, and proc…
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Monday, April 30th, 2007
My first published article
I (and my coauthors) have now had a paper published in an academic journal, the Rose-Hulman Undergraduate Mathematics Journal. This is a paper we wrote during SMALL. Here is the journal, with ours the first article listed.Isoperimetric Regions in Gauss…
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Sunday, April 29th, 2007
My first 10k
I ran my first 10k race on Saturday, on the track at Union. My teammate and I wanted to be sure to run under 44:00 to qualify for Div IIIs, so we ran the first four miles at just under 7:00/mile pace (43:30 would be the total time). We traded off leadi…
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Sunday, February 11th, 2007
Mile in 5:30 => Div III New Englands
I ran at BU. I ran faster than 5:32.87, so I qualified for Div IIIs. I lapped someone twice. At the end of the race, I could not see. That was not all that happened. Next week I will run the mile again.
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Monday, February 5th, 2007
Another PR: 13 seconds but no qualification
I earned my first point for Williams this weekend. I did not achieve my goal of a 23-second PR to run under 11:00 and qualify for Div IIIs, but I did have a 13-second PR, so I can’t complain.Women 3000 Meter Run Name Yr School Finals Points …
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Sunday, January 28th, 2007
Identify this
There are two objects to identify. The first three pictures are of the first; the next three pictures are of the second. If you can identify it other than “a knot made out of straws and dental floss for your thesis” in a mathematically intelligent way,…
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Sunday, January 28th, 2007
A new PR in the mile
I ran 5:37.35 at Reggie Lewis on Friday night. This breaks my old PR of 5:45.6 set in senior year of high school at the Exeter/Andover meet. It also improves significantly on my 5:48 of two weeks ago at Williams. So I am pretty pleased with that. I wil…
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Sunday, January 21st, 2007
A new PR in the 3k
Yesterday I ran the 3000m at MIT, 50 seconds faster than when I ran the 3k at MIT last year and 16 seconds faster than I ran the 3000m in outdoor track in senior year of high school. I was hoping to run a PR so I decided to run each lap in 46 seconds, …
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Friday, January 19th, 2007
Music for the Ode to Williams
That the Ode to Williams has a tune is old news; that the tune has been recorded is breaking news. You will find the lyrics at the good old Ode to Williams site, but now a nice boy at Williams has made it into a .wav file with synthesized percussion an…
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Saturday, January 13th, 2007
Three great races
Today I ran the 4×800. My split was 2:40 (PR, outdoor 2003: 2:38).Then I ran the mile. My time was 5:48 (PR, indoor 2003: 5:45.6).Then I ran the 4×400. My split was 72 (PR, approximate, outdoor 2003: 74).So it was a good day. And in the mile this girl …
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Tuesday, January 9th, 2007
Two unboring pictures
Becca says that most of her pictures are lame. My pictures aredecidedly not lame. Here are two examples of pictures I took in the fall semester that totally fail in the lame department.The one on the left is so amazing that it was screen-printed onto …
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Thursday, December 7th, 2006
Fall semester work on my thesis
I had to write a summary of the work I have done on my thesis this semester. I made it into a pdf (because of a few weird characters) and uploaded it.Here is a summary of my fall thesis work. (PDF)Note this is not like “the first chapter of my thesis” …
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Thursday, November 16th, 2006
Awesome pictures at night
Last night I walked around with my camera and took pictures. I had previously had very limited success taking pictures at night because I didn’t understand how to do it. However, I figured out that if I put my camera down on a stable surface (such as t…
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Sunday, November 5th, 2006
My Christmas list
Since you’re reading this, you probably like me, and since you like me, you probably want to know what I want for Christmas, which is, according to the dining hall, only 50 days away. Since I’m nice, I’ll tell you what I really, really want.1. No more …
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Friday, October 20th, 2006
Three-dimensional matrices
Today I went to the trainer’s because my quad still hurts. The trainer had me sit and push with my leg against his hand, do strides with my leg attached to a stretchy thing, and do lunges with my foot on a squishy thing. Then he asked me, “do you know …
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Thursday, October 19th, 2006
The color pink in the month October
This shirt is rather clever, I think. And if you can’t read the text at the bottom, it says, “October is breast cancer awareness month,” which is true.If you find yourself unaware, here are some clever T-shirts I learned about a year or two ago, but ne…
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Wednesday, October 11th, 2006
A hero, yup, that’s right
Today math colloquium went brilliantly for the first 15 minutes. Around the 16th or 17th minute, a drilling noise began. It wasn’t that it drowned out the speaker; to the contrary, I could hear everything perfectly. The problem was that it was loud eno…
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Wednesday, October 4th, 2006
I admit it: You win.
A few months ago, I took engagement photos for a friend and her fiance. I was going to take their wedding photos as well, but they chose someone else. Now, seeing the photos that resulted from that choice, I agree with the decision. Her pictures are mu…
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Tuesday, September 26th, 2006
A picture of my colloquium
Thanks to the requests of Becca and Brent, and the photography of Sunmi, I here present you with a picture of my colloquium, all on one chalkboard. You should be able to get the gist, but I could write out an explanation for the parts I am covering, th…
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Friday, September 22nd, 2006
25 divided by 5 is 14
Neal points us to a very clever video in which the preceding “fact” — that 25 divided by 5 is 14 — is proven in three different ways: long division, multiplication, and addition. I like this kind of “proof” and try to collect as many as I can.
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Thursday, September 14th, 2006
A Web site about my crew boat
I spent a few hours making a Web site about my crew boat. It explains all the steps of the process, with lots of illustrations along the way. It also has a FAQ section, and while talking with Sunmi today, she actually asked two of the questions from th…
