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Timed it today, work is about 20 minutes away by bike.

I have concluded that I feel fairly good about my biking...I frequently pass people, keep a good pace, and can more or less sustain that pace. I am not feeling as good about running. I don't feel I am making particular progress, getting faster, going longer...whatever. I remain at about half an hour for 5km (actually, having checked my route again, I think it's actually about 4 and 3/4 km...close), and have never really improved on that...I think I have a technique problem. There is probably some running technique that I need to learn, that I don't know, something to do with how I plant my feet, how I push off...I don't know. I need to look into those running clubs maybe. I am not sure I have time to fix this between now and my test in just under 2 weeks (eek). I may yet be able to pull it off...and then again, I may yet embarrass myself and not even get half way.

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I had a lively debate with the blood services nurse yesterday. I wrote my usual objections in the margin of the questionnaire about the "If you are male, have you had sex with another male, even once, since 1977" question. She challenged my objection, saying it was an important question in their high risk category of questions. We broke it down as I showed her the irrelevance of the question, by pointing out the other questions that actually addressed the concerns she was thinking of. By the end, she had agreed 100% the question needed changing or removal.

It felt good to think I had reached someone, that maybe she was going to see the question differently now. Usually the nurses shrug, sometimes agree, but dismissively, that I am never sure if they do agree, or just don't want to get into it with me.

Oh, my diastolic pressure has dropped to 68, and resting heart rate to 55, that felt good too.