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Archive for April, 2007

Tulip Festival weekend

Arranged a quick-last-minute trip to Skagit valley for the Annual Tulip festival (http://www.tulipfestival.org/) on Saturday. It was the last weekend for the festival this year; and it was a nice warm day. For the last few weekends, the weather had not been as nice to make it into the tulip fields. So early Saturday morning, [...]

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Rouhollah was in town for some interviews.(Welcome to the Pacific Northwest) While here, he linked up with his former CEC study buddies – Master TA (Ola Aje) and I. Rouhollah is close to finishing up his doctoral studies at Washu.   {St. Louis former Waterman Blvd roomates reunite}   Thursday evening, we went for dinner [...]

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Weight at start of Boot Camp* : 176 lbs Weight this week : 182 lbs Gain/Lost since start : +6 lbs *This might or might not be Chilumba’s true weight.

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Bootcamp: Week 3

  In Pro sports club boot camp news this week – Monday: I went to class 10 minutes late, and I had to do push-ups. (Excuse for being late) Why was I late? Sunday was a busy day. Nelly and I did a lot of cleaning and some gardening. We emptied the storage shade, and [...]

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Weight at start of Boot Camp* : 176 lbs Weight this week : 179 lbs Gain/Lost since start : +3 lbs *This might or might not be Chilumba’s true weight.

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Bootcamp! (Second week)

{Notice; I used an exclamation mark} Today was brutal. To summarize the morning training; 4 words – I HATE HILL REPEATS! We continue running, and doing strength exercises in the sessions. I am doing pretty well maintaining a steady pace. It reminds me of school cross country running at ISL in Lusaka many years ago. I [...]

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My legs were sore yesterday as a result of Monday’s workout. So I was not necessarily looking forward to today’s session after waking up this morning. It was still cold (45 F or 7.5 C), but felt warmer compared to Monday morning. We were lucky again this morning, as it was not raining. I hope [...]

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Bootcamp: Day 1

2 years later, and I am back in the Bootcamp class at the Pro Sports Club gym. Today was day 1 (of 2 months). Lisa Mikey still owes me one. He said he would take the class WITH ME. (Even though I know he already took it alone last year). Bryan (a co-worker) is also signed [...]

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This is not what you think. I was looking at my website referral logs, and I found some search terms used by someone in Las Vegas which landed them on my site. They searched for “El Salvadorian Hot Guys.com”, and my website ranked 1st on the Yahoo results page (as of 1st April 2007 – [...]

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I finally have a new pair of comfortable running shoes. I got them from a Green Lake store – Super Jock n Jill . This store has really good reviews (See store reviews ) and I would recommend it. I went in the store, and I was presented with different shoes to try on. After sizing me [...]

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