Just completed a 5.42 km run with RunKeeper
Month: March 2010
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RunningBlog: Week 10
I’m still experiencing the after-effects of the Public Nudity Epiphany, I think. For the past 15 months, I’ve been struggling with the rowing machine at my weekly Spudds session. There’s always at least one station on the circuit where you do two 20 second rowing sprints separated by a 10 second rest. The goal is to get 100 meters in 20 seconds. I’ve done it a few times in the past year, but I’ve never been able to get two in a row. My form is improving though, and I’ve been closing in. (Last week I had 101 and 98.) Yesterday I stood before the machine and took a few seconds to visualise myself doing it. Then I sat down and strapped in. The first 20s felt good, and I was well within pace. I got 101m for that one. Spudds came over to congratulate me and told me to “stay loose” during the 10 second rest. “Back yourself!” he yelled. And I was off. My pace was slower, and my technique was definitely sloppier. But he stood over me shouting that I could do it, and I gave it everything I had. As the buzzer sounded, my distance slipped upwards… and stopped on 100m. I gave a shout. It was as satisfying as finishing my first half-marathon. He gave me a high-five and told me that I was the first female to do it. (I’m a little doubtful of that; I’m sure some of the women in his evening classes could do it. Still, it’s a big accomplishment.) I tweeted afterwards: “I feel like I can do anything.” I really do. This whole “self-confidence” buzz is intoxicating.
But hey, running is what this is all about, right? Because of my continuing issues with my right foot, I’ve dropped my running back to three days a week (rather than four). With my Sunday distance increasing, I want to give my arch as much rest time as possible.
Mar. 5: 5.27km
Mar. 7: 10.16km
Mar. 9: 5.43km
Total this week: 20.86km
Total in 2010: 191.27km (119.5mi)To meet my 1000km goal, I should be at 192km. So right on track!
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Molasses Coffee Marinated Pork Chops
Molasses Coffee Marinated Pork Chops from Alton Brown. Yum. I’ve got some pork chops in the freezer just begging for this…
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Shared today on Twitter
It took me 15 months, but I finally got 2 x 100m/20s on the rowing machine. Not many girls do, apparently. I feel like I can do anything. 🙂
Five meetings in one day. I think that’s a personal record.
Alas, poor Magic Pudding, I knew him well! http://twitpic.com/17phgo
@liedra That’s not the app; it’s likely the best your monitor does! Can’t get more than that, usually. What’s the thing you’re capturing?
@rhagern I haven’t spotted us in any of them yet. Hilarious that we were both there. Would’ve been funny to meet that way! 🙂
@rhagern I haven’t been able to spot us in any of the pics yet, sadly. Yours was great!
@rhagern Nah, we only did the outside bit. We had to go to work!
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Shared today on Facebook
It took me 15 months, but I finally got 2 x 100m/20s on the rowing machine. Not many girls do, apparently. I feel like I can do anything. 🙂
Just completed a 1.43 km walk with RunKeeper
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Shared today on Twitter
@Opheli8 Can I be the meeting Princess?
@randomknits Grafted and everything? Did you use the written-out instructions available online?
@randomknits Just google “rogue hood grafting” if you want to pull it back and be completely Hermione about it. 🙂
@lukerides Maybe median is more meaningful than average? Put it in the middle of the bell curve. (Not that $150K could be psbly be median.)
Heading to #IIBA talk with @venks79. Work stuff + alcohol is always fun.
@venks79 Seriously. I saw you tweeting during the speech! Naughty.
@drkknits I need to get caught up on that. Snook and I are massive Boston Rob and Ambah fans. 🙂
@kunaal84 Congrats on your last day! Looking forward to welcoming you aboard next week. 🙂
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Shared today on Facebook
Happy birthday! Be sure to meet up before you jet back off to LaLaLand…
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GGG for Runners
Peter Sagal (of Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me fame) has a column in Runner’s World this month and has blogged his “Three G’s for Runners”. It’s got some nice pointers for anybody starting out in running.
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Clarification on the tiebreaker
Since someone emailed to ask, I did not include John Hughes in the tiebreaker count for the Oscar Contest. Jenny and I debated it during his tribute, and we hoped the producers would make it easy by including him in the “In Memoriam” reel as well. But they didn’t. However, the actual wording on the entry page was: “How many dead people will be featured in the annual Hollywood obituary tribute reel?” I think it’s pretty clear that the question is not how many dead people will be honoured at the show, but rather how many people are in the specific tribute montage. So on that basis, we went with the count of 34. Of course, it really sucks for Tom Cassutt, because if they had included Hughes (or Farrah Fawcett! or Bea Arthur!) he would’ve won the whole shebang. Sorry, Tom!
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Shared today on Twitter
11am and I am heading into my 3rd meeting of the day. GRAR.
Don’t forget to count dead people for me, Tweeps! I have a feeling I’m going to need the tiebreaker this year…
@_brigita_ I am not a fan of the mop top. No, sir.
I’ve seen loads of pics of Diane Kruger, but WHERE IS PACEY? With Clooney’s mop top, I need some stabilizing Pacey hotness.
@kevincmurphy You’re still in there… http://bit.ly/dAxpzc
Snook: “I reverse engineered your Oscars site to create a histogram of user success.” Then dumped me a bunch of code. I love him.
RT @miftik: http://twitpic.com/17agub – Trying to stay awake for @web_goddess but it is going to be tough. // YOU ARE THE BEST. THE BEST!
I will need a backup dead person count, as I think @imdominating is crying too hard.
@miftik That matches what @imdominating got. Thanks to the both of you! You are awesome. 🙂
@Opheli8 You’re a cheater head! I don’t see no James Taylor on your monitor… 🙂
@traveller0112 Huh. Not seeing much commentary on that, other than from Ebert and you!
Whoa! @realtimshady has a real chance here…
@thisismywww Mine is working, over on William Street…
@thisismywww 3G. I got Twitter and everything.
And it’s over! A 14-way tie for 1st place in the W-G Oscar Contest… and then a 2-way tie after tiebreaker… comes down to order of entry.
The W-G Oscar Contest winner of the Sparkly Emo Vampire Sockmonkey Playset is Jonathan Wells. Way to go, Jonathan!
RT @mayorofnewtown: Extended bus zones on King St Newtown in preparation for bendy busses (Metrobus 30) (pdf) http://bit.ly/bFm0Sl
@witty_knitter Judging by the email address, I don’t think so. 🙂
2nd go at Magic Pudding face: much better! Nearly got it. Just need to finetune the nose placement.
@carbolicious I think in most places in the world, every day is Men’s Day.
First hot cross bun of the year. Yum.
@carbolicious The question was stupid, like asking why there’s no Int’l White Person’s Day. Because they’re not an oppressed minority!
@carbolicious Actually, apologies. There is one, and 2 seconds worth of Googling found it: http://bit.ly/PP0nj