BioPerl leadership additions
Congratulations to Chris Fields and Sendu Bala who are now members of BioPerl’s core team. Keep up the great work guys! 
The full announcement here.
Archive for February, 2007
Monday, February 26th, 2007
Sunday, February 25th, 2007
A few minutes on the “other” side
I think I just crossed the line today. I was able to bring “the wall” closer to me by having 4 continuous hours of mixed training: 2 hours of endurance climbing followed by 2 hours of running.
In the middle of the 3rd hour, my body protested and I began experimenting hallucinations because of low energy levels (even though I hydrated enough and constantly). I even crashed against some street signal and lost enough air that I almost vanished!
Sometimes it’s hard to understand when “enough” really means “ENOUGH!”…
Thursday, February 22nd, 2007
Near Boltless Ascent of Compressor Route
On February 18, Josh Wharton and Zack Smith made a near-boltless ascent of Cerro Torre’s famed Compressor Route (VI 5.10 A2, 900m, Alimonti-Angeli- Baldessari-Claus-Maestri, 1970), Parque Nacional Los Glaciares, Patagonia, Argentina. Wharton and Smith worked out slight variations to the route with natural gear to get to the headwall without relying on bolts. Although they summited, Wharton and Smith began clipping bolts in the final 400 feet (four pitches) due to weather complications…
Source: Alpinist Magazine.
Wednesday, February 21st, 2007
3 endure 4,000-mile run across Sahara
IN THE WESTERN DESERT, Egypt – Three ultra-endurance athletes have just done something most would consider insane: They ran the equivalent of two marathons a day for 111 days to become the first modern runners to cross the Sahara Desert’s grueling 4,000 miles…
Source: Yahoo! News.
Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
GPS fun in the neighborhood
I had lots of fun while playing with my GPS toy at tonight’s run. I created a new 20 km route through Satélite which can be aptly named “the zig-zags”. It goes through 4 of the main circuits in the neighborhood and has ~800 m of uphill trip. For the full details click on the map below. I’m certainly having fun in my eternal quest for the runner’s high…
Sunday, February 18th, 2007
Vertical run
Judith & I went back to Peña Bernal (for the 3rd time this year). Seems like there are other obsessions on our minds besides from certain boulder problems…
We didn’t arrive to the mountain as early as we would have liked, but we were able to race it up twice in the day via the Northwest Ridge and Bernalina. We wasted a lot of time during the first descent (due to a local festivity that requires a bunch of men carrying a big cross to the mountain’s summit via the descent route), but fortunately, we only had to jump 1 party of 3 climbers on the 2nd route. We enjoyed a nice sunset at the summit and during the descent. Seems like our thirst for climbing was satisfied for the weekend
Friday, February 16th, 2007
Fresh air
Yeah, I got my dose. I went with Ana, Tania & Toska (Tania’s dog) to Chiluca’s forest for a short run in the trails.
The girls brought their bikes and I laced my running shoes for an energizing race around one of the many hills in the place. I logged 9 km of pleasant running, while the girls got their dose of downhill action (Tania spraining her index finger while in the process). Here’s the track for today’s adventure:
Friday, February 16th, 2007
Bug week
This has been a very busy week (related to work activities). Several bugs were sent in and things can’t be more exhausting than living capsule-style in your desk when you have to fix production-side issues. I almost spent the entire night fixing image paths and recursively migrating files across 2 different colos. Updating 6000+ entries in the Argentina news database wasn’t also easy…
Fortunately everything seems to be in place now. I’ll switch to offline mode immediately, I need fresh air.
Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Love & friendship
Cova and I went again to Chiluca boulders. This time I made it without running or climbing gear, I simply got out from the office and drove all the way up there. Ana met us a bit after and we had a relaxed training session, no big routes or projects. Just spending a nice time and enjoying ourselves, as good friends do.
PS. So you thought I was going to talk about the first topic, huh? Bad news, you were wrong
Tuesday, February 13th, 2007
Thrashing the thrashed body
In an effort to meet Cova at Chiluca boulders, I jumped out from home with my running gear on, just as if current muscle soreness from weekend climbing wasn’t enough. Too bad he spent so little time climbing, I arrived there and there were no signs of climbers at the zone (even though it was 6 o’clock!). This allowed me to add a small variation to this route as well as 19 km to my legs’ log.
I’ve been playing with the Garmin Forerunner 305 (yeah, I’m a running geek) and must say that the toy really rocks! Too bad its battery life lasts for 11 hours of continuous use (I’ll find a way to remedy this…). Here’s the result of today’s run, thanks to the MotionBased site:
