CIM Training Week 2, Day 2: 3 miles

Today was a 3-miler, which I ran a little slower than last week due to the amount of exercise I did this weekend. That's just fine, today's supposed to be an easy day anyway.





Splits
Mile 1: 9:34
Mile 2: 9:31
Mile 3: 9:40

3 miles, 28:47, 9:32/mi, 406 calories burned

Running Vlog #10: CIM Training Week 1

Finally, another vlog! I plan on making a new one every long run during CIM training.

Lava Beds Camping 8-7-09 to 8-10-09

A few months back, my friend Beej invited us to his group camping trip to Lava Beds National Park, in Tulelake, CA. I'd never been, plus he was inviting some of our friends from college, so I said sure! I knew the kids would have a blast.




Along with camping, the kids had a total blast exploring caves. While they weren't all appropriate for kids, they did get to see a few caves. We took them through Hopkins Chocolate Cave, Sunshine, & a few others over the course of two days.



I managed to forget to pull over for a picture of Mt. Shasta, so I took one from the car.


We stopped in Mt. Shasta City for lunch on the way home.




All in all, another great camping trip. Here's a video of some of the fun our kids had.

From Twitter 08-10-2009

• 02:52:31: New post on my blog: From Twitter 08-09-2009: 03:33:38: New post on my blog: From Twitter 08.. http://bit.ly/3YAPKp
  
• 17:00:08: Hey everyone, I'm back to internet civilization! Stopped on my way home...
  
• 17:04:14: http://twitpic.com/dg6ac - On the way home, I found the glory hole!
  
• 17:58:22: Is twitpic still not pushing to Twitter? :(
  
• 18:54:37: @OTD_Colonel Hey there. I have all my tweets post to my blog daily, which then get picked up and pasted as "new blog entry"
  
• 18:55:06: @OTD_Colonel I just went on vacation so there should be a blog entry each of those days that has nothing but "today's tweets" with no tweets
  
• 19:00:58: @phampants Hey man, back from vaca
  
• 19:02:17: For some reason this didn't get onto Twitter earlier... on the way home from Lava Beds, I found the glory hole! http://www.twitpic.com/dg6ac
  
• 19:03:08: @MarthaVan I also used Action Wipes after a trail run/long run, although it didn't fix the mess that is my scraped up knee
  
• 19:04:47: Runs @ 4700' really made me respect those who train there regularly. Oh man.
  
• 19:06:22: @karrock On the 5-miler I was so proud of myself, tripped SIX times but didn't fall once. Made up for it on yesterday's 8-miler.
  
• 19:06:33: @karrock went down twice in the same spot, ripped the hell out of my knee
  
• 19:08:15: @rodmur Hey dude. I finally experienced the Catacombs, and heard a great story about @rodmur in the process.
  
• 19:09:14: Woo, yesterday's run was 873 of elevation gain, 879 loss
  
• 19:09:44: @karrock Not much, 16 hours or so
  
• 19:10:00: @karrock I got there on Friday @ 3pm, ran Saturday morning
  
• 19:12:11: @just_finish Hey man, I just got back. Sorry about bailing on you.
  
• 19:15:19: @karrock Absolutely. Acclimatization is important, but I didn't have that luxury. No biggie, heh.
  
• 19:17:30: Ran 5 miles 8-8-09 - http://m8.to/2jZ
  
• 19:18:59: Ran 8 miles 8-9-09 - http://m8.to/2ja
  
• 19:27:49: @just_finish I'm planning to get it done early, probably tomorrow.
  
• 19:28:06: @karrock My regular shoes. They're dusty, not too bad.
  
• 19:28:50: @karrock You should see my boots after caving on my belly through <12" spaces on Saturday. Glad I used my old ones.
  
• 19:32:26: @karrock I didn't take pictures but it'll show up at the end of my video ;)
  
• 19:34:53: @karrock Not of the injury. I could take some, but it's starting to heal.
  
• 19:35:12: @gchance But like I said, when I was done running I tallied up the war wounds on video
  
• 19:40:05: @bapper It shouldn't. Elevation wise, the long, meandering run (missed the skull cave trail) had more elevation to it
  
• 19:40:24: @bapper But stopping at the caves along the way made a difference, I wasn't near as out of breath
  
• 19:44:18: @quotidianlight GAH! Sorry to hear about that.
  
• 19:44:54: Oh nice. There was this nasty smell in the living room, come to find out it was chocolate milk left by a kid on Thursday.
  
• 19:46:16: @TankaBar_Linda We just got back from vacation... it was 95 degrees in the house when we came home
  
• 20:02:41: The car was too far ahead of me to see the plate, but on the freeway I saw this plate: BENATAR
  
• 21:09:09: Just talked to an old high school buddy for the first time in about 20 years!
  
• 21:15:03: @quotidianlight It went good, we wanted to get together in person because he's in town, but the timing was off.
  
• 21:15:33: @quotidianlight Basically he was in town while I was on vacation, he called at like 8:45pm. Too late to get together, for me anyway
  
• 21:18:05: @quotidianlight Of all my friends at the time, he was the only one I trusted to date my sister, heh
  
• 21:35:36: GAH! My Flickr Pro account expired while on vacation. Grr.
  
• 21:39:24: @RunningQuest No, what you do is ask him to keep you awake during surgery so you can do the tweeting
  
• 21:40:33: @quotidianlight Furnace maintenance, hehehe
  
• 21:43:30: @ADoRunRun yo!
  
• 21:46:04: @quotidianlight We're progressively giving my son more freedom but of course he always takes too much, like this weekend in the caves
  
• 21:46:14: @quotidianlight The kid kept disappearing into the darkness so far ahead we couldn't see him
  
• 21:50:04: @quotidianlight You grew up catholic, you don't remember the story of the disciples fishing with Jesus?
  
• 21:50:26: @quotidianlight They had huge nets even back then... threw it out on one side, Jesus said now throw on the other, and they had a ton of fish
  
• 21:50:46: @quotidianlight They still do it that way ;)
  
• 21:56:15: @quotidianlight OK was thinking of someone else... regardless, you have the background. Wasn't getting religious, just a point of reference
  
• 21:56:26: @quotidianlight Fishing with nets = around a while :)
  
• 21:58:11: @quotidianlight haha very true, kids are inventive. What were they, bug nets?
  
• 21:59:32: I just got an email that started, "I don't normally forward emails..." How many of those do you get regularly? I know I get plenty. :)
  
• 22:04:43: http://twitpic.com/dh675 - FINALLY! A definition of #1 & #2!
  
• 22:05:17: RT @wowzurz: @gchance one thing I love about the #pre is all chain messages stop with me per no forwarding capabilities. Darn. - hah!
  
• 22:05:48: RT @gchance: http://twitpic.com/dh675 - FINALLY! A definition of #1 & #2! - This was hanging in the restroom at our campground.
  
• 22:22:49: @rodmur That would be the one, yes. ;)
  
• 22:24:00: @rodmur What's funny is @spiderdude actually gave specifics on which items they were.
  
• 22:31:15: @_MikeKennedy Those toilets are in most places. As opposed to the optical sensor ones? I hate those, especially when seated.
  
• 22:31:29: @_MikeKennedy Shift your butt, flush... shift your butt, flush... get up, no flush.
  
• 22:46:31: @rodmur It was, but Tom was telling the story in his Tom way. We would have gone to the bottom except @beejjorgensen ripped up his back
  
• 22:47:01: @rodmur I did make it through the anus, down into the parlor. Would you believe someone had smoked cigarettes in there? Crazy.
  
• 22:55:11: Aw man! Youtube's doing maintenance, no uploading at the moment. Help me, Obi Wan @phampants, you're our only hope.
  
• 23:45:39: MapMyFitness.com: Completed Caving. 1,620 (kcal). 2:00:00
  

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