Today's Tweets

07:11 Wt: 167.8, RHR: 52 #

07:14 39yo. You happy? (grumble) 21%bf, 8hrs sleep, 5'6.5", anything else? #

07:16 My 3yo just told me to put on my running clothes so I can "running very fast" #

07:37 Well Twadget doesn't seem to work. Heh. #

08:46 Did you know I'm supposed to be doing a long run? So why am I on the computer with that horrible Garfield movie in the background> #

12:18 Done with my long run. #

14:44 Andy on The Office just said, "COME ON!" Heh. #

15:01 Mapped 01/24/2009 Route (11.03 mi.) #

15:04 New Flickr upload: Weather012409: Gregoriopolis posted a photo: tinyurl.com/agpjxz #

15:04 New Flickr upload: 1-24-2009 Splits: Gregoriopolis posted a photo: tinyurl.com/auue3y #

15:15 Completed Long Run. 1,267 (kcal) Distance 11.03 mi. Duration 01:55:14 #

17:17 Something weird's happened to the Garmin Training Center on my PC, it keeps telling me that it doesn't match the device #

17:17 Like, every single time. #

17:17 It still syncs though. #

18:34 New Flickr upload: Weather012409-alternate: Gregoriopolis posted a photo: tinyurl.com/d45zxg #

20:04 New post on my blog: Long Run - 11 miles: Today was my 11-mile long run. It went pretty well.. tinyurl.com/blf5hj #

21:03 I swear, every time Steve Martin hosts SNL it's like he's teaching them how to do it. They don't even come close. #

21:23 Woo, got my reservations for Burlington Campground, May 1, 2, 3, & 4... The Ave Marathon is on the 3rd. Driving home on the 5th. #

21:51 OK, time for bed. Nite all. #

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Long Run - 11 miles

Today was my 11-mile long run. It went pretty well overall, at least, I think I had the best run I've had in a while.

I do, however, think Sporttracks failed me a bit. Actually, it was the GPS2Power plugin that failed.

I use GPS2Power because it shows weather information, and today's run was annoyingly windy on the way home, to the point of having to walk when gusts would come up (and even then, having difficulty even WALKING because of the wind). On the laptop, I looked at the weather and it looked exactly how it felt.



The splits reflect exactly what happened to me with the wind.


There was hardly any wind before the 5.5-mile turnaround, then suddenly it was so windy I could barely run. The last 3 miles were the worst, the gusts made it hard to even walk.

Then I put the data into the desktop, but look at the weather data:


You'd think it was a completely different run! Anyway, I'm going with the laptop's data.

Today was an 11-mile long run, with a goal of 9:37. I swear, I was confortably running ~9:00/mi until the wind started. In fact, I can remember at one point thinking I might run all 11 miles at marathon pace. Hah, silly me.

It actually began with a stoplight that I had to wait to change, the wind started about a half-mile from there. The last 3 miles were the worst! I had to walk during some of the gusts.

Splits
Mile 1: 9:04.66
Mile 2: 8:52.75
Mile 3: 8:57.63
Mile 4: 9:21.89
Mile 5: 10:35.09
Mile 6: 10:42.93
Mile 7: 10:32.42
Mile 8: 9:58.18
Mile 9: 11:34.01
Mile 10: 12:27.75
Mile 11: 13:05.35

1:55:12, 10:28/mi average pace, and hey, I burned 1267 calories.

When I came in from the run, my wife warned me that my 6-year-old son was in trouble, and was in his bedroom, but be warned about how it looked in there. Come to find out, he had been told to clean up his room, but instead he dumped the contents of all his shelves onto the bedroom floor! All his million books, all his toys, all his clothes, everything.

I was expecting to see this, so I opened the door carefully. When I did, my son was climbing up the side of the bunkbed, and had opened his window and was shouting to his friend next door! He was supposed to be cleaning up the mess he had created.

I have to admit, I lost it a bit. He was having trouble stepping through the mess to get out of his bedroom, so I told him I'd handle it. I picked up the bookshelf and tossed it across the room, then said come here, now.

He's now banished from his own bedroom. He's not allowed in there unless he's actively cleaning with either myself or my wife with him. Right now, he's sleeping in a sleeping bag in the living room. Tomorrow after church, he knows we're going in there, and anything on the floor is being boxed and taken out of the room. He's losing all that stuff for a while, since he can't handle it being in his room.

So today was the great adventure. As far as my long run is concerned, I'm happy with it overall. I strongly believe I would have made a 9:00 pace or less the entire way, had it not been for the wind gusts. Tomorrow's a day off from exercise, and honestly, I'm looking forward to it.

Today's Tweets

06:14 Wt: 167.8, RHR: 49 #

06:58 Listening to The Choir: Chase the Kangaroo #

08:00 Well that sucks, the tweet I sent in the car didn't work. Therefore: I *was* listening to The Choir: Chase the Kangaroo :) #

08:02 Oh wow, my Choir tweet did go through. Heh. #

09:29 On the way into work someone noticed my slight hobble this morning. "Little rough walkin, there, eh?" Yeah, I'm old. #

11:11 So she's rebooting. Reboot fix everything. #

11:13 THE HUMANITY! I left my sweaty tights & socks from yesterday in my training bag. #

11:20 The tights also soaked my workout notes. GRUMBLE! #

11:21 Her name is Angel. #

12:59 At the gym, trying to figure out what a flexion is. #

14:32 AGH! What I thought was tilapia was really chicken. #

14:39 Guy from my church just called me asking for his W2. I guess his old boss's name was Greg, so he searched the phonebook "GR->send" #

14:39 When I answered, "This is Greg" he thought it was his old boss hahaha #

17:06 MapMyFitness.com: Completed Weight Workout. 132 (kcal). 00:30:00 #

21:43 and don't mind Fakecetera anymore hahaha #

21:46 Yeah poor Peter Cetera has a core following but never got as big solo as he did with Chicago #

21:46 They haven't done too badly, but again, core following #

21:46 I've seen Chicago 3 or 4 times live, but it was all post-Cetera #

21:46 the first time I only saw them because of my gf at the time, but the show was really good #

21:48 In the late 90s a lot of the big rock bands wre touring as dual-headliners so I got to see a lot of them, which was cool #

21:48 Now though life's different, and they charge so much for tickets I doubt I'll see one anytime soon, unless Jon Anderson gets better #

21:51 I think with Christian music at first I listened to soundalikes but in the end listened to unique bands #

21:52 So my favorites gravitated towards the alternative bent, 77's, The Choir, Adam Again, DA, etc #

21:52 One cool thing about going to see and listen to relative unknowns was you could always meet them and have conversations #

21:53 I saw The Choir once where the promoter screwed up, there were like 30 people there. I loved it. #

21:54 The same happened with Mike Roe, I got an email on the 77s mailing list that he'd be playing at suchandsuch address in Sacramento #

21:54 When I got there he was just helping a friend at a gig... in the parking lot of a pawn shop #

22:18 I just found myself snacking, before I realized it I'd eaten a bunch of crackers. Whole grain, but still, it's after 10! #

22:18 I'll work 'em off in the morning. #

22:18 I sure hope tomorrow's run goes well, I haven't had a good workout in well over a week. It's getting annoying. #

22:20 I need to go dig those books up, they're in a box somewhere unless I threw them away. Probably did 10 years ago. #

22:21 If for no other reason, What About Rock and What About Christian Rock are good historical records of the rock hysteria of the 80s #

22:22 You can plop Bob Larson right into that group. #

22:23 TO THIS DAY I can't hear the satanic messages in Stairway to Heaven #

22:24 "What're you lookin' for the devil for, when you aughtta be lookin' for the Lord!" hehe #

22:28 ...and Christians wonder why people see us as freaks. #

22:32 11 miles in the rain, baby! #

22:33 Nite all. #

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Today's Tweets

05:42 Wt: 168.4, RHR: 52 #

06:37 Voices carry? Rain 'til Tuesday. #

07:54 Finally at work, getting ready to eat breakfast. :) #

08:43 Push the little daisies & make 'em come up. #

09:05 May I just say that Lolo Jones is hot? #

09:07 Wow. I blogged about 24, Battlestar Galactica, and Lost... but not the inauguration. #

09:43 What I wanna know is why users think computers work they way they WANT them to work rather than how they're designed to work. #

09:43 I might want my car to fly, but it ain't gonna. #

09:56 Is there a way on the blackberry to purge all messages in the inbox from the device only? We use IMAP. #

10:11 At least until my Pre arrives. ;) #

10:46 User: "Oh, oh, Spybot's coming up, should I Allow or Deny?" Me: "What is it trying to update?" User: "I don't know!" FLASH PLAYER UPDATE #

10:47 Why can't people learn to read EVERYTHING in a window and not just 1/8 of it? #

10:47 Well that's positively boring: a scrabble meetup that got tagged as "hiking" #

14:06 Well that run sucked. I seem to be having more and more of them. :( #

14:20 I was a tad overdressed today though, I'm sure that had at least a bit to do with it #

14:36 Mapped 01/22/2009 Route (6.22 mi.) #

14:41 Completed Tempo Run. 695 (kcal) Distance 6.22 mi. Duration 01:06:30 #

16:36 Boss calls. "Do you have an IDE drive Tim can play with?" Tim wants to clone a system. I give Tim the drive. "Oh, I thought you would do it" #

18:18 Have any of you had a chance to touch Paul Bellini? #

20:03 Rewatching the Lost season premiere. #

21:03 OK, done rewatching Lost. I'm off to bed. #

21:04 New Flickr upload: 1-22-2009 Splits: Gregoriopolis posted a photo: tinyurl.com/akquv3 #

21:04 New post on my blog: Tempo Run - 6.2 miles: Today was my tempo run, this would be #4 of the .. tinyurl.com/bx6e8h #

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