Today's Tweets

00:10 New post on my blog: Today's Tweets: 00:08 New post on my blog: Today's Tweets: 00:09 New po.. tinyurl.com/dff2mm #

06:28 Wt: 175.8, RHR: 51, BF: 17.6% #

07:49 At work now! Thanks @theanarunner for the follow suggestion #

08:00 It looks like my tempo run FAIL has a brightside for today; weather shows partly cloudy this afternoon! #

08:31 I had a peanut butter & banana sandwich for breakfast. In other news, I'm ovulating. #

08:44 RT @caseywright: Follow the original Batman: @therealadamwest and the person who alerted me to his Twitter presence: @lannies #followfriday #

09:34 I just accidentally put a Vista clone on a box that's supposedly not Vista compatible. Working just fine, thank you. :) #

10:04 Advice: if I trust you, I'm likely to follow your #followfriday tweeps sight unseen. If not? Well I'm probably not following you anyway. #

10:26 Rocket Man, just not the one you think. Kate Bush. ♫ blip.fm/~43k7w #

11:18 RT @sacbee_news: Davis will be new home of Bicycling Hall of Fame tinyurl.com/c9yxt6 - Well, how about that? #

11:40 Greatest children's book movie adaptation to happen in a long, long time: twurl.nl/z7p7b7 #

14:34 As @rodmur launches into his rendition of The Aristocrats. #

14:39 Got this email while running: "System is slow & Mel can not print any...please advise." Called the user, he said the same thing. #

14:39 I asked, "Any what?" His response was like I was an idiot. #

14:43 Sponsored tweets are getting old. This is becoming #unfollowfriday. Crap, I should have waited until #unfollowmonday. #

15:46 He hasn't typed anything yet but for #followfriday I recommend a good friend of mine, @sbatson01. Fabulous Sacramento-area photographer. #

16:09 I'm a happy boy! ♫ blip.fm/~445qn #

16:13 Mapped 04/10/2009 Route (8.02 mi.) #

16:16 Completed Last over 6-mile tempo run!. 1,058 (kcal) Distance 8.02 mi. Duration 01:16:13 #

16:23 I'm going to try and sneak out of work on time today. Gotta cache water for tomorrow's 20-miler! #

16:36 RT @wwwjeffmayca: How have I not posted this yet?? tinyurl.com/cgbq2m Me in action, a buddy shot it for a school project #

16:38 Off to do the Dew. And buy some gels. And such. :) #

19:09 My hard drive just completely crashed, it's clicking incessantly. Guess what I don't have. I know better. #

19:15 Alright, I'm off to cache water. #

22:12 All my tweeps are going to bed! @kchealy, are you still around? #

22:27 New version of Sporttracks! It's got tomorrow's date too, hehehe #

22:28 Oh wait, it's not Sporttracks, it's the powertracks plugin. Nevermind. #

22:31 Ohhhh. New Sportracks AND new Powertracks. Mmm, tasty! #

23:04 New Flickr upload: 4-10-2009 Splits: Gregoriopolis posted a photo: tinyurl.com/ckwcsh #

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Tempo Run - 8 miles

Yesterday was my scheduled tempo run, and it was raining pretty hard. I didn't mind too much, but the problem was I brought the wrong shirt with me to work. It was one of those "muscle shirts", without arms, and I didn't really want my arms to be exposed to the elements. So I went to the gym with the idea that I'd do 8 miles on the treadmill.

I was able to watch a rerun of Lost while there, but 8 miles? That was a bit too much. I managed 4.

Usually when things like that happen, I'm not able to "make good", and just have to deal. This time I got lucky. The weather was GORGEOUS for a good run today! So I was able to do the 8-mile tempo run today instead. By doing the full 8 miles today, I'll have an extra 4 miles in for the week.



Splits
Mile 1: 8:46.69
Mile 2: 8:51.45
Mile 3: 9:21.45
Mile 4: 9:37.15
Mile 5: 9:55.93
Mile 6: 9:47.40
Mile 7: 10:05.22
Mile 8: 9:45.71

1:16:13, 9:31/mi average pace, 1058 calories burned

Tomorrow's my last long run before the taper: 20 miles. I was out caching water tonight when the cops pulled up.

What is it with cops and fitness, anyway? Don't they have to maintain a certain level of fitness in order to keep their jobs? At the end of my 18-miler a few weeks ago, I ran into some cops who, when I said I was on mile 18, said, "That's IN.. SANE." Tonight while putting out the last bottle of water, the cops drove up and asked what I was doing. They just wanted to make sure I wasn't doing anything shady, so I explained to them what I was doing and why. The response? "You wouldn't catch me doing anything like that, good luck."

Anyway, it will be the longest I've run to date. I made all the preparations I needed, bought some gels for the occasion. This time I'm going to use AccelGel. I mixed up a bottle of Cytomax in the Ultimate Direction bottle, which I'll sip along the way. For water, I have my caches (I set out 5 20-ounce bottles at the same intervals as the water stops during the marathon).

Finally, I'm running out the bike path I've run before. I would have run from my house, but by running the path, when I get to mile 7 a long hill begins, with the greatest incline closer to mile 10. That will give me some hill training for the big day.