Tempo Run - 6.2 miles

Today was my tempo run, this would be #4 of the FIRST training. Only 14 more to go! Hehe. It was supposed to be 1 mile easy, 4 miles @ tempo pace (8:22 - 8:37), 1 mile easy. Right afterwards I thought I did horribly, but in retrospect other than walking a few times in the middle, it wasn't too bad.



Mile 1: 9:10.23
Mile 2: 8:23.75
Mile 3: 8:48.05
Mile 4: 11:45.96
Mile 5: 9:00.24
Mile 6: 14:50.49

Yes, I more or less walked the last mile.

So I was getting down on myself for not doing well, but I realized that last night I only got 3 hours' sleep. That might have had something to do with it, along with working my legs pretty hard at the gym yesterday. In the end, I think I did pretty well.

Tomorrow I'm back in the gym.

Today's Tweets

05:33 Wt: 168.8, RHR: 48 #

06:32 The international radio reporter's name just now was Aleister Wankin. #

07:30 Radio question: 50M ppl do this ea yr. Caller answer: go to the super bowl. #

09:34 Lost is back tonight, woo! #

12:38 Darn floor, big bite. You are earth, water, and light. #

12:38 Off to the gym. :) #

12:46 Someone at work asked me if I run more than I work now. I guess I'm the "office runner" now. #

14:06 WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALT! #

14:26 Heh, people complaining that the recalled peanut products have disappeared from the vending machine. Idiots. :) #

14:30 We don't usually feed processed things to the kids, so PB&J is all made by us, and the PB is ground personally by me. #

14:30 I just ground some this morning actually. Best kind on earth. #

16:15 Yet still enjoy Twilight. #

17:02 Off for some Diet Dew. BTW, I have a case of Diet Code Red in my drawer at work. Later. :) #

18:16 License plate seen on the way home: NUDEGUY #

23:09 Anyway I had to abandon twitter for Lost. That's one show that demands full attention. #

23:10 I do love the direction, it's becoming more like Primer now. In a good way. #

23:41 pushup time #

23:49 Oh yeah... 100 Pushups Week 3, Day 2 (repeat): 20, 25, 15, 15, 30 #

23:57 MapMyFitness.com: Completed Weight Workout. 265 (kcal). 00:41:00 #

00:00 MapMyFitness.com: Completed 100 Pushups, Week 3, Day 3 (repeat). 100 (kcal). 00:8:00 #

00:01 ...and with that, I'm off to bed. Nite all. #

00:04 New post on my blog: It's TV Heaven (with a weight workout to boot): For TV, the past few we.. tinyurl.com/crat82 #

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It's TV Heaven (with a weight workout to boot)

For TV, the past few weeks have been simply wonderful. Some of my favorite shows have returned with a bang.



The ragtag fleet found Earth, only to discover it was lay waste by some sort of nuclear destruction. Weirdness abounded. The 13th tribe were Cylons, we now know that the last Cylon model was... Ellen Tigh? Starbuck really did die on Earth, yet she lives and breathes? The people who we discovered were Cylons are having memories of 2000 years in the past?

Most importantly about Galatica, Ronald D. Moore and Co. have been making it up as they go along.



After a 2-year absence, Jack Bauer's back! After questioning by Senator Clarence Boddicker, he's now working for the FBI. No wait, he's working for the immortal Methos. No, he's working with his former CTU cohort and current zombie, Soul Patch Tony Almeida. And to complicate matters, according to the episode description, next week, "Jack Bauer takes matters into his own hands."

You don't say?



Finally, the long-anticipated return of one of my favorite TV series of all time was tonight. Any series that's been around a while has its ups and downs, and Lost has certainly had its share of them. But tonight? Tonight, Lost regained all the excitement it had in the first episode and then some.

One thing I've complained about with a lot of shows, including Lost, is that at times they look down on the audience. You really can't blame the producers, it's one of those facts of life. How do you serialize something when people don't pay close enough attention to remember something that happened three years ago?

So they created "Previously on..." segments, but I've always viewed those as saying, "Look, we don't think you're intelligent enough to remember this, so here's a clip of it again." Unfortunately, in the process, they ruin the surprise that's coming up in the episode. The same thing happens with credit sequences, if you see certain actors or actresses in the opening credits, you know certain things will happen.

Tonight there was no "Previously on..." segment. I suppose you could argue that the repeat of the 3-hour finale last week, combined with the 1-hour special before the season premiere, was just an extended version. That may be true, but what happens if you watched just the premiere?

There were serious payoffs for longtime viewers. I didn't spend the time writing all of them down, but they were there. We didn't have to see a Previously on... segment to know the significance of the plane. The moment we saw it crash, we knew "when" Locke was. The compass that Richard gave to Locke, the same compass he was waiting for the child-Locke to pick so many years before. Hurley's father sitting down to watch Expose (somebody buy Cheech a Tivo). And let us not forget the dramatic return of Mrs. Hawking!

In the end, it was two extremely riveting hours. I'm seriously looking forward to the rest of the season.

Did I Mention My Workout?

Went to the gym today...

Warmup, 3 circuits, 30 seconds each exercise
* Jumping Jacks
* Split jacks
* Squats
* Lunges
* Mountain Climbers

Workout
* Elevated-heels High Bar Squat, 3x12x135lbs
* Weighted Back Extension, 3x12x25lbs
* Wide Grip Barbell Curl, 3x12x50lbs
* Incline Dumbell Triceps Extension, 2x12x(2x20lbs)

41 minutes, 265 calories burned

Then tonight after my extended 3-hour TV session:

100 Pushups, Week 3, Day 2(repeat): 20, 25, 15, 15, 30

Now I can happily go to bed. Tempo run tomorrow, and it's supposed to rain. Yippee! We need it, actually.

Today's Tweets

05:50 Wt: 167.8, RHR: 53 #

09:27 Would that be the magnificent mall of America? #

10:02 New Ad-Aware, "Ad-Aware Anniversary Edition" www.lavasoft.com/ #

10:03 Wow, I hope that kid they just interviewed doesn't run for President. Sheesh. #

10:03 (MSNBC) #

10:04 Dianne Feinstein: "Very distinctive signature." #

10:16 Strange, MSNBC was rock solid throughout the inauguration but now that other things are going on it's choppy. #

10:16 (the MSNBC stream) #

10:35 Fuji apples make the world go 'round. #

10:47 So will Barack Obama now be shooting hoops with secret service agents? #

10:47 Or will it be like the old beer commercials, Barack's friends say "Oh man he's changed, he's changed" then see a pool full of beer? #

11:24 My wooted backup Reebok HRM's arrived. Woot! #

12:05 Alright, time for me to run. Back after I cry. #

13:16 Back from my run: sprint intervals, 10min warmup, 12x400m, 10min cooldown #

15:00 Wow, I just combined the ravenous bugblatter beast of traal with the black beast of aaaagh and didn't even realize it until now. Cool. #

15:04 From what I understand the Forerunner 305 isn't very accurate for elevation, at least not like the other product lines (like etrex) #

15:08 Mapped 01/20/2009 Route (6.12 mi.) #

15:24 In and around the lake, mountains come out of the sky, and they stand there. #

15:25 Completed Sprint Intervals - 12x400m. 761 (kcal) Distance 6.12 mi. Duration 00:58:24 #

16:34 New Flickr upload: 1-20-2009 Intervals: Gregoriopolis posted a photo: tinyurl.com/7m96gs #

17:21 Guy @ combo cstore/quiznos wanted me to test fountain diet dew @ quiznos. Who am I to argue? #

17:21 On my way home w/bottled diet dew. #

20:37 YEAH!!! "Try and pick up that dumbell and push it up over your head!" #

20:47 PAH! The Turbo Tax Dead Presidents are creepier than the Burger King! #

20:47 ...but not as creepy as Zombie Orville Reddenbacher. #

20:58 I also don't expect REI to follow me back! #

21:04 New post on my blog: Sprint Intervals - 12x400m, 6.12 miles: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUGH! Sprint int.. tinyurl.com/9c2ujg #

21:06 I told him I was tired of that crap and he honestly didn't know why I was offended. #

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