Okay, my hip is almost done being stupid. i've been using louis's nice chair this week, but i'm thinking i should get a nice chair for myself ( Read more... )

In the span of two weeks, my mom has bested both my marathon PR and my half-marathon PR. Even accounting for her disciplined 50-mile weeks compared to my haphazard 20-mile weeks.... she's 64. I may just have to admit that she didn't pass down her speedy-genes to me. Oh well. I still love running! Maybe I'll just have to do an ultra. :-) I'm serious ( Read more... )

DIRECTIONS:
- Go to Google image search.
- Type in your answer to each question.
- Choose a picture
- Use this website ( http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/mosaic.php
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The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.

Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read (Entirely!)  (I've read 38/100). 
4) Bold the items that you plan to read imminently or that you have on your bookshelf
5) Cross off the books you will probably never read entirely
6) Put in RED the books ( Read more... )

 Book Review (* * * * *)
Everyman, Philip Roth.

" Mind-blowing. I read the first 30 pages of this book a year ago or so, and then got distracted by one thing or another. I didn't know what the book was about then, otherwise I would have read it in one fevered sitting, as I did yesterday (I went back to page 1, because I wanted to remember all the ( Read more... )

Today I spent a lot of time organizing my finances and paperwork, writing a 42-item list of New Years Resolutions, tallying up my yearly running mileage (688 miles), and listing all the books I read this year.

This post will be about the books.

Unlike previous years, I decided to include books that I bought but have not finished. This was a real eye ( Read more... )

 Wow, I just read an article in Runner's World and had an epiphany. I am a middle-distance runner. I took a quiz called "identify your true calling" and it I scored 100% middle-distance. I've always known I wasn't born a sprinter. Good lord, I can't even do a sub 7:20 mile. But it was my dream for so long (since I was like 8) to run a marathon, ( Read more... )

 Did some junk miles today. 2.65 miles on the treadmill. Just for the fun of it, I tried to see what it would be like to run at a 6:30 pace. That's 9.2 miles per hour. It was HARD. I kept it up for all of mmm 20 seconds? I seriously don't understand why/how some people can run that fast. For an Olympic marathoner, a 6:30 pace probably considered " ( Read more... )

Until I run the Marine Corps marathon. I am so excited I can hardly concentrate. I'm not going to tell you my goal time, because actually I don't really care how I finish, just as long as I finish, but, I'm optimistic! I think it's going to be lots of fun ... and lots of pain ( Read more... )

 I am in love with the google chrome web browser.

PROS:
1) Tabbed browsing. Some people don't like this because they can't Alt-Shift-Tab through different pages as they can when multiple windows are open.
2) Minimalist design. 
3) Very fast rendering of webpages, especially gmail! (Not surprisingly). 
4) Tabs run independently so that if one tab ( Read more... )