Two half marathons separated by a month!

 Half marathons are becoming more common for me as I learn what it takes to complete one. Previously, I managed only about one half marathon a year. But recently, I completed two half marathons within 30 days: the first was the 2026 Cancer Run on Kampala's streets, and the second was a 2026 Makerere University Run (MakRun), also on Kampala's streets. 

For the Cancer Run, I posted a time of 2 hours 40 minutes and 43 seconds running in the Brooks Glycerin Max shoe. I lost the nails on my big toes on both feet because the shoe held them so tightly for most of the run, with severe pain going down the slopes. Surprisingly, my toes started to recover more cleanly, and that really motivated me to look forward to another run. My refueling during this run was only water, with a little glucose for the last 400m. Here👇 is the report for this run:

For the MakRun, I posted a time of 2 hours 42 minutes and 55 seconds (after starting in a drizzle), running in the Asics Gel-Kayano shoe; this shoe was a bit more comfortable, but my knees, muscles, and joints suffered more and took longer to recover. I should blame my refueling a bit, which held me back, as I had to stop and snack on some sugar cane or watermelon (where I lost a few minutes); I think I should have just grabbed something to snack on the go. And here👇 is the report for the MakRun:

I would like to run a two-hour and 30-minute half marathon, which I think is my current barrier and then maybe try to see what a full marathon goes like.

It's now over a year and three months since my great father, my great dad went.

 It took me a long time to post here since my great father, my great dad, Fred Patrick Zeere Wanziguya, transitioned to the great beyond. It was the morning of 31st August 2022, just almost a week after his 75th Birthday. I can only thank God for blessing us with his life, and pray that we can have just a little of that blessing to grace us through this world till we meet again. He is currently survived by his dear wife Irene Wanziguya, his children he loved a lot, and his grandchildren he seriously enjoyed being with. There are things I thought were easy to do because he made it look easy when doing them; I have tried some of them and now really appreciate the very special kind of person he was to achieve them. Importantly, he did his bit to prepare me, and I draw significant benefits from some special and humble life values he ensured I should know and apply. Thank you, Father, Thank you, Dad.

Activities during COVID 19 Lockdown

Self-motivated research papers

I recently started investigating classification techniques on a Ugandan credit risk data set. Last year (2019) I presented some classification results form several machine learning methods. This year, I have focused on Bayesian networks and during the CoVID 19 lockdown, I forwarded my results for review.

I have also revised one of my papers on Machine Translation for one of the under-resourced languages in Uganda (Lumasaaba). Thanks to Google's colaboratory platform (colab.research.google.com), I was able to explore several Neural Machine Translation architectures. Although I had to pay for more Google Drive space to accomodate the huge resulting NMT models. I have forwarded my results for review.

Another Baby!

On Tuesday 28th August 2018 at around 5:00pm, our daughter came to this world! Thank God for everything and for Joyce!

Uganda's Mothers' index

Having been blessed with a baby born in Uganda one month ago, i took time to go through some statistics concerning Uganda's maternal status. The figures are really alarming and a successful birth in Uganda and several African countries is surely by God's grace.

Lifetime risk of maternal death: 1 in 44
Under-5 mortality rate (per 1,000 live births): 66.1
Expected number of years of formal schooling: 9.8
Gross national income per capita: 550 US $
Mother's index rank: 141/179

These should not be taken for granted! Developing countries have to address this seriously. Why would someone risk their life after taking into consideration these numbers? No wonder our leader's descendants have to be born elsewhere! No No No and No. God bless us.

Source: Save the Children Website

A Baby!

I should have posted this earlier. On Tuesday 7th 2015 (a day after Easter Monday) at around 1:00pm our son Ethan Nabende came to this world! Thank God for everything and for Joyce!

Data mining specialization on coursera

I am currently pursuing a data mining specialization on coursera.
I have utilized the first module for my data mining and datawarehousing class; i have played role of tutorial assistant and i recommend it to any one. i should be through with two modules soon.