Pre-trip metrics

by rc

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  • Longest time without shaving – 6 weeks, duration from “let’s publish this” to manuscript submission
  • Longest time without shower – 3 days, Channel Islands backpacking trip/Skyline-to-sea
  • Biggest purchase – $2000, triathlon bike with ZIPP wheels
  • Longest bike ride – 120 miles, Western Sequoia Century
  • Longest race – 6 hr 45min, Wildflower long course (half-ironman)
  • Biggest dream – become a professor
  • Biggest decision – PhD not MD
  • Most expensive activity – Golf (lessons + course fees)
  • Cheapest activity – running, free
  • Highest altitude reached hiking – 4600 msnm (metros sobre el nivel del mar) = 15,092 feet, Salkantay trail to Machu Picchu
  • Biggest selling spree – $3100 before travels (including car, laptop, furniture, books..)
  • Best financial move – investing in index funds when the market tanked in 2008
  • Raddest solo adventure – camping alone 1 night at Castle Rock/Guatemala 5 weeks
  • Longest break from coffee – 1 month, 2013 spring
  • Most students taught at once – 8, cancer biology high school summer school/chemistry TA
  • Most books read in a year – 24 books, 2012
  • Most journals written in a year – 3, 2012
  • Best dish – sous vide baby back ribs/Alton Brown rib-eye steak
  • Most non-English books read ever – 2, El Alquimista, 英雄
  • Most influential books – Vagabonding, Art of Nonconformity (website), Leaving Microsoft to Change the World, Getting Things Done, The Alchemist, Born to Run, The Little Book of Common Sense Investing, The 4-Hour Workweek, Mindfulness in Plain English