Well, yesterday I decided to push myself and ran 3 miles in 29 minutes (actually finished off the 5k distance at that pace but 29 minutes sounds better).  According to my running log that's the fastest 3 miles (or any distance over 1 mile) I've ever run!  That's 6.2mph over 3 miles and the previous fastest was 6.0 ( Read more... )

Here's the weekly update (nothing too exciting):

• My oldest turned 10!  Can you believe that?  I'm too young to have a 10 year old!  We went out to eat as a family, then had a bunch of his friends over for a birthday party
• Got back to running.  Put 9 miles on this week.  Did 3 miles on Thursday and 6.22 on Saturday (at 5.2 mph avg).  The 10k was ( Read more... )

Well, I don't believe in making NYR's (New Year's Resolutions).  NYR's are more like a wish list for most people who have no intention of committing to their resolutions for more than a month (ie: gym memberships, weight loss, stopping smoking, etc).  NYR's are the things people say to make other people happy, things they say to show others to ( Read more... )

Sadly, Geocities shut down last week.  Although I hadn't hosted a site there for a decade I will remember it fondly.  It was a an attempt at what we techies now call web 2.0 - where people, not big corporations, made web content to share.  It was one of the few places at the time you could post a web content without having to have your own web ( Read more... )

Ok, we’ve tapped out our pool of regular babysitters (they’ve all gotten lives!!!).  Does anyone know of anyone looking for babysitting work who WANTS to babysit Friday or Saturday nights ( Read more... )

Well, I finished the Omaha 1/2 marathon (13.1 miles) this morning in 2h:26m:59s ( Read more... )

Had a very hard run tonight.  Decided I'd better get back with the program and start running again.  I was planning on starting bright and early this morning however my wife kept me up late, and 6am came too soon.  Instead I resigned to running in the evening -- only I didn't eat much all day (granola bar for breakfast & lunch, and a tiny snack ( Read more... )

So I've been planning on running the 1/2 marathon of the Omaha Marathon which is coming up quick (September 27th).  I'm not sure if it' what it is but I just haven't made the time to run like I should.  I've been running once or twice a week instead of 3 times -- and all too often skipping my long run ( Read more... )

I just rammed in head into a low duct in our house (for the first time ever) hard enough to about about knock me on my butt.  Normally I know right where to duck but since my 9-yr-old was standing right there I walked around him upright (so as to not hit my head on the shelves) and whacked my head so hard I would have dented the duct work if it ( Read more... )

Well, just finished my summer bike ride. This year instead of a MS150 ride (which they scheduled way too early to be doable scheduling wise) I ran over to Iowa and did their big bike ride RAGBRAI (37). In a nutshell it's a 6 day rolling party involving in the ballpark of 15,000-20,000 cyclists and lots of other support, vendors & other folks ( Read more... )