Born to Run?

Just got home from a run. I hadn't been running in over a month. That does not mean I have not been active, I have been swimming, biking, dancing, playing futbol and even made it to one capoeira class. But the run today was awful. My right ankle hurts a bit, probably from lack of stretching, but also my left shoulder is sore. I may have used it to block the wind, but that's no explanation for the ache. Maybe I can blame it on the weather, yesterday was the first rain in five weeks, which is a record drought for these parts.

This module (Water Treatment Processes and Plants), which is already half way through, has been quite interesting. It began with a trip to a intake reservoir, which actually was a boat cruise through a nature reserve with coffee (as seen with Mariano) and beer. The rest of the module is centered around a group design of a treatment plant for a fictitious city in a developing country. The concept is nice, but the biggest problem with working in groups is the different attitudes towards what is relevant versus what is not. For example, one person may want to argue the importance of one tenth of one percent in the population growth rate, while others think that it is more important for the figures to be in the correct range but not necessarily precise, is more worthy of discussion. Maybe the MSc in Environmental Engineering comes with an MA in Arbitration...Not that I'm bitter...Time for dinner.