Phys Ed: Can Running Actually Help Your Knees? - Well Blog - NYTimes.com

These studies partially explain my experience with knee pain. I think they underestimate the value of increased flexibility in the hips and ankles. I also suspect that regular modest stress brings more blood flow to the joint facilitating regeneration. Finally, I suspect anti-inflammatory help slow down degeneration because the degeneration is caused by the inflamation itself -- at least partially.

Phys Ed: Can Running Actually Help Your Knees? - Well Blog - NYTimes.com: "An article in Skeletal Radiology, a well-respected journal, created something of a sensation in Europe last year. It reported that researchers from Danube Hospital in Austria examined the knees of marathon runners using M.R.I. imaging, before and after the 1997 Vienna marathon. Ten years later, they scanned the same runners’ knees again. The results were striking. “No major new internal damage in the knee joints of marathon runners was found after a 10-year interval,” the researchers reported."

Processing 1.0

Thanks to Ugo Sangiorgi's twitter feed for this...

Processing 1.0: "Download

Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions. It is used by students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists for learning, prototyping, and production. It is created to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context and to serve as a software sketchbook and professional production tool. Processing is an alternative to proprietary software tools in the same domain."

The site lists books, material on building from MIT, etc.

Progress in 6 months

Last January 24 I posted:
This week:: 90 minutes @4.0 mph with 1500 ft., elevation gain. HR=151.


I suspect I did not go quite that fast, because until today I've never done that well. Today, however, was a piece of cake:
This week:: 90 minutes @4.1 mph with 1650 ft., elevation gain. HR=140.

A year ago I'd frequently plan on a 4 mph x 1000 ft/hr pace, but I never quite felt like it. Today was easy & its not been a good week for sleep, relaxation, etc.