I'm saying good-bye to LiveJournal. All the cool kids are playing on Blogger now. So I've decided to jump ship. I'm going to be updating my blog much more often at Blogger, since it has better tools and whatnot. Here's the new URL: http://dalesblogaboutnothing.blogspot.com/

I'm ahead of the game on my marathon training. I'm a full 3 weeks ahead of my training schedule, having started running seriously again much earlier than last year ( Read more... )

So today, I thought it would be fun to try out the infamous Unix command: rm -rf /
Here's my result:
rm: cannot remove root directory `/'

So this got me thinking... What other ways could I pooch the data on my hard drive?

dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/sda

This seemed to do the trick. :)

The hardest part about distance running is having the patience to wait for improvements. My natural instinct is to head out and run hard for as long as I can. Unfortunately, that is very counterproductive ( Read more... )

Not much to report. I'm starting to do repeat weeks of the Hal Higdon's Advanced I marathon training plan. It's a bit more involved than the plan I used the last two years. In my opinion, it looks much better. More of a chance that I'll actually achieve the time I'm training for ( Read more... )

I went out on a morning long run this morning. Only went 10 miles. But it was probably one of the easiest 10 miles I ever did. My secret? Running in the cold. It was around -10C this morning, and I had never run in anything that cold before. Fortunately, I was layered just perfectly and wasn't overheating at all, and felt just a bit chilly ( Read more... )

After taking most of the month off, my knee is finally back in a runnable shape ( Read more... )

Well, my right leg pain went away. I think I just pulled a muscle in my shin ( Read more... )

I ran the Lemming Loop this last weekend. And I had a great time doing it ( Read more... )

I have a cold. And it's less only 3 days until my ultramarathon. Not good.

Can't breathe, can't run. Sitting around all day doing nothing.

I'm still going to show up and give it my best. I'm just disappointed that my best is not going to be anywhere near where it could be.