DrGregoryHCainMD

Dr. Cain's Reading List:

Warped Passages, The DaVinci Code, The Code Book, The Equation that Couldn't be Solved, A Tour of the Calculus, Prime Obsession, Beyond Einstein, Incompleteness, The Elegant Universe, Hyperspace, The Fabric of the Cosmos, Fermat's Enigma, The Golden Ratio, The Science of Soccer, The Letter of the Law, The Sum of All Fears, Alaska, Hawaii, Pearl Harbor: The Verdict of History, At Dawn We Slept, The Universe in a Nutshell, A Brief History of Time, Programming the Universe, Parallel Worlds, The Nature of Space Time, Big Bang, Braving the Elements, Metamath: The Quest for Omega, Hiding in the Mirror, Deep Down Things, Wooden: A Lifetime..., The Bipolar Child, Make the Big Time Where You Are, It Doesn't Take a Hero, Fiasco, The Emperor's New Mind, Shadows of the Mind, The Large the Small and the Human Mind, Neuropsychology of Trauma, Anatomy of a Secret Life, The End of Alice, Red Storm Rising, The Deceiver, The Heads Up on Sports Concussion, Neurology and Trauma, God Created the Integers, The Ancestor's Tale, Relativity, In the Beat of a Heart, How the Universe Got Its Spots, Buddah, River Out of Eden, A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines, Carving Grand Canyon, Chaos, Assault on Reason, Living Buddha Living Christ, The Blind Watchmaker, On Intelligence, Blasphemy, Nature Revealed, Naked Economics, Unkn( )wn Quantity,The Making of the Fittest, Physics of the Impossible, The Music of the Primes, Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Postconcussion Syndrome, The End of Faith, Trick or Treatment, The Family That Couldn't Sleep, This is Your Brain on Music, irreligion, The Singularity is Near, Life of Pi, The Return of Depression Economics, Your Inner Fish, Is God a Mathematician, Atmospheric Disturbances, god is not Great, The Drunkard's Walk, In Defense of Food, Complications, Better, The God Delusion, The Greatest Show on Earth, After the Fall, Super Freakonomics, The Checklist Manifesto, Living Your Life in Balance, Hope for Animals and Their World, One to Nine, why does E=mc2, Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman, Care of the Young Athlete, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Statistics, ATLS: Advanced Trauma Life Support for Doctors, PALS Provider Manual And Course Guide, Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) Provider Manual, 2010 Handbook Of Emergency Cardiovascular Care For Healthcare Providers, American Heart Association Core Instructor Course, Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) Instructor Manual, The Only EKG Book You'll Ever Need, Rapid Interpretation of EKG's

"My Philosophy of Healthy Living" My belief is that it is not just good enough to tell my patients how to live a healthy life--I need to live that lifestyle and lead by example. For my first eleven years of my professional career I was an officer in the U.S. Army, six years active duty and five years reserve. During that time I held to a regular regimen of physical fitness. After my departure from military service I gradually fell short of my physical fitness goals. I reached my nadir five years ago when I was overweight and out of shape. I have always enjoyed sports, especially water skiing, snow skiing and bicycle riding. I unwittingly reached a point where I was no longer enjoying these activities like I once had. I realized I could not preach fitness to my patients if I was not fit myself. Therefore, five years ago I made the decision I was going to turn things around and serve as an example to my families of what is achievable with the proper diet and regular exercise. This journey back to physical fittness has been very rewarding. I have shed excess weight, my cardiovascular condition is as good as it ever was and my sports performance is nearly at my best ever. My goal is demonstrate to my patients that they too, no mater what their starting point, can enjoy an active lifestyle in the body they want to have.

Back into training mode for the STP. The weather has been far from cooperative this Spring making me resort to the spin bikes at the gym for much of my training. Today was not perfect weather but at least it was only a light sprinkle and not a downpour. I have a relative in the hospital in Olympia so I decided to combine some exercise with the visit. Here is today's tour.

1st Leg, on the way to Olympia:
Trip time: 01:23:40
Trip distance: 18.9 mi
Trip calories: 1132 kcal
Average speed: 14.2 mph
Maximum speed: 31.0 mph
Climbed altitude: 1214 ft

2nd Leg, the return trip to the point where I got the flat tire:
Trip time: 00:55:20
Trip distance: 10.9 mi
Trip calories: 647 kcal
Average speed: 13.8 mph
Maximum speed: 28.6 mph
Climbed altitude: 535 ft

3rd Leg, the rest of the way home after fixing the flat in the rain:
Trip time: 00:46:44
Trip distance: 9.9 mi
Trip calories: 586 kcal
Average speed: 13.6 mph
Maximum speed: 25.9 mph
Climbed altitude: 597 ft