Week 10, 2021
March 11, 2021 Categories: Weekly Notes
Work
Working on multiple things like always. I have a couple technical ## projects in hand that involve Python and Java programming. I also learned Docker to be able to deploy those ## projects. On the client-facing side, delivered on some data and Tableau dashboard requests. Spent a lot of time with the QA team to test out new deliverables. Not the best but a fun week at ## work.
Books
GOLD IN THE WATEAR | P.H. Mullen Spent just over 3 hours in total reading time and about 50 odd pages of the book. The story is at the point where the swimmers have just come back after winning a relay at the Pan Pacific championship tournament. While their individual performances showed them that they weren’t unassailable, their combined victory in the relay gave them a ray of hope to win the Olympics of 2000. This is all happening in the winter of 1999 and now all athletes have come back to the Santa Clara Swim Club to train harder for the main event next year. Kurt Grote (one of the 3 athletes anticipated to win gold in the Olympics) is now biking around 1000 miles a month in the mountains next to the Stanford University campus to supplement his arduous swim training. Personally, I am averaging 20 miles a week. I can’t imagine biking 250 miles a week. But I digress. Looking forward to the athletes’ grueling training phase that the author appropriately titled “Darkness”.
Fitness
Gym : San Francisco has made good progress in keeping the number of COVID-19 infections down. And the vaccine supply is rising steadily thanks to the Johnson and Johnson vaccine that was approved recently by the FDA. As a result of the above, SF has opened indoor gyms and dinning at 10% capacity. I have joined the gym near my house. They have a swimming pool – 25 yards in length and 3 lanes. I am eagerly waiting for them to open the pool. With my book reading this week, I am already in the grove to go swimming. Apart from that, the equipments are not bad. They have a variety of them. As you enter the gym they take your temperature and hand you a sanitizer spray bottle that you carry with you to all equipments. And of course masks are mandatory. I have been there twice this week. I usually bike to the gym which is a good warmup routine. It takes me around 7 minutes. Yesterday it was raining in SF and it felt amazing to ride my bike in the rain while coming home from the gym. Biking : This week I rode 27.98 miles (~45 km) with an elevation gain of 1066 ft. Hope to beat this record next week. Would love to explore other parts of San Francisco on the bike.