Well, the 3M Half-Marathon is tomorrow and I figured it was time for my regularly scheduled pre-race excuse-fest, and boy do I have plenty of them this time around … sickness, malaise, injury, motivation, time, general wussy-ness … you name it and I can offer it up. Suffice to say I have not been running well the past six weeks or so, but what the hell, let’s just see what I run tomorrow and go from there. I will say that any expectation or extrapolation based on my IBM 10K time would be foolish for you to make and foolhardy for me to attempt. So, come back tomorrow and see just what kind of fool I am.
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Well what’s this? A web log, or as the kids call it these days, a b’log? Why yes, yes it is. Keeping the knob on life support, hanging on by a thread. It’s been a couple months since I last posted some gibberish about cat pictures, so how about a return to the days [...]
Interesting mystery. In March 2009 Jessica took this photo of her cat Mr Friday with her iPhone, but she didn’t upload it to Facebook until August 13, 2009. As far as we know, the photo never left her iPhone.
On April 2nd, 2009 her brother forwarded a chain email full of “Awesome Photos”. At the time [...]
All that’s left is to run the race that is set before us. The physical work has been successful, the mental preparation has been sturdy. Reconciling the two, the mental and the physical, is a reward in itself, but today the race is the thing, the act itself.
The lead-up week looked like this: 21 [...]