College Park Cares 5K
I completed a 5K last weekend and considering the struggles I've had of late with the ear infection, I did really well.
If memory serves, 22 min 36 sec was the finish time and I ranked 23 overall. Again, not to shabby considering my triathlon race pace would like to be around 7 min miles for twice the distance.
I'll call it "a small victory".
Knee Pain
I've been held up quite a bit lately with some knee pain. I had a severe case of it back in July-August and I attributed it to cycling. I didn't do enough base building last winter and my mind has an expectation of my body that probably wasn't realistic. WebMD is telling me I've developed Runner's Knee.
I've reduced training volume significantly. I still can't just sit around and do nothing. So, I've also reduced intensity. Going slow has been a nice change. I'm still getting a solid work out, how ever slower, and it's providing me an opportunity to do base building along with making adjustments to my form and my equipment (shoes and cycling kit).
School Days
The current course I'm taking consists of some small programming projects and a lot of paper reading. It's not too bad and fits in well with my desire for more free time. I have pretty high expectations for myself and I've been applying the free time I do have to other pursuits (GRE, job surfing, and the game).
G-R-E...GRE...G-R-E...I must focus on thee.
Break-through
I managed to connect PandAI into the tech demo for the game project. I'm pretty stoked and both myself and Surphaze have been looking forward to not only finishing off the Bullet-python wrapper, but also the second tech demo (featuring moving things and a controllable player-character that can interact with them).
If I manage to get this thing running, minus bullet, we should be in pretty good form for a tech demo release to a select crowd of friends. I'm jonesing for some feedback.
Other projects
I've been playing a lot with OpenMP and truth-be-told, I've been nothing but impressed by the way it works. I've been playing with it at the office to speed up some matrix/vector processing and my eyes have been set to modifying some other software tools out there with OpenMP functionality. Some of it is financially based which should prove to be of particular interest to whomever is into that sort of thing.
I ran across an OpenMP-to-CUDA compiler the other day and it looks incredibly cool. When time permits, you can bet I'll be fiddling with it.
If memory serves, 22 min 36 sec was the finish time and I ranked 23 overall. Again, not to shabby considering my triathlon race pace would like to be around 7 min miles for twice the distance.
I'll call it "a small victory".
Knee Pain
I've been held up quite a bit lately with some knee pain. I had a severe case of it back in July-August and I attributed it to cycling. I didn't do enough base building last winter and my mind has an expectation of my body that probably wasn't realistic. WebMD is telling me I've developed Runner's Knee.
I've reduced training volume significantly. I still can't just sit around and do nothing. So, I've also reduced intensity. Going slow has been a nice change. I'm still getting a solid work out, how ever slower, and it's providing me an opportunity to do base building along with making adjustments to my form and my equipment (shoes and cycling kit).
School Days
The current course I'm taking consists of some small programming projects and a lot of paper reading. It's not too bad and fits in well with my desire for more free time. I have pretty high expectations for myself and I've been applying the free time I do have to other pursuits (GRE, job surfing, and the game).
G-R-E...GRE...G-R-E...I must focus on thee.
Break-through
I managed to connect PandAI into the tech demo for the game project. I'm pretty stoked and both myself and Surphaze have been looking forward to not only finishing off the Bullet-python wrapper, but also the second tech demo (featuring moving things and a controllable player-character that can interact with them).
If I manage to get this thing running, minus bullet, we should be in pretty good form for a tech demo release to a select crowd of friends. I'm jonesing for some feedback.
Other projects
I've been playing a lot with OpenMP and truth-be-told, I've been nothing but impressed by the way it works. I've been playing with it at the office to speed up some matrix/vector processing and my eyes have been set to modifying some other software tools out there with OpenMP functionality. Some of it is financially based which should prove to be of particular interest to whomever is into that sort of thing.
I ran across an OpenMP-to-CUDA compiler the other day and it looks incredibly cool. When time permits, you can bet I'll be fiddling with it.
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