Work - Training Balance

I spent the last 4 days working at the annual AASLD liver conference in San Francisco where I reviewed the latest data on treatments for chronic hepatitis B. My task was to review all of the new data and put together a summary presentation for a review meeting on Tuesday. I have done this before but there was a lot more information this year which made for some late nights. On top of this I had to train! Saturday wasn't too bad as we had a lecture and only spent an hour spinning but Sunday was something else. After spending 1 hour 45 mins in the pool, we then spent another hour or so on the track doing drills, and then topped it all off with some core training. It was a tough few hours after which I had to scurry off to the conference. I didn't get to see much of Raj which was the hardest bit. Saturday's lecture on nutrition was fascinating. It has been described as the fourth discipline and is clearly an area where I need to do a lot of work. A couple of big take home messages: 1) no artificial sweetners - they are neurotoxins, and 2) it is time to decrease or maybe eliminate caffine from my diet.
Finally, I got a heart rate monitor. More to follow on this once I have figured out how to use it.