Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner is a book that I picked up on a whim a few weeks ago while browsing through a bookstore. The lady and I were waiting to meet some friends down the block and it seemed like a good place to get out of the rain. I loved this [...]
Read More...I am beginning to test layout ideas for the website. Obviously, it is in a very rough state at this point, and it is not going to be a huge departure from normal. I only have a few goals I want to flesh out, and then I am going to adapt a skin for the [...]
Read More...The Greater Portland YMCA Back Bay 5k was Friday night. Erin and I ran down to the start as our warmup, and then hobbled our way through the race. The weather (somewhat) cooperated; for a change it was not raining. There are rumors that this afternoon the sun even shone for a few minutes at [...]
Read More...Having finished one phase of my training, the question is whether I should take a little time off before starting the next phase. Two weeks of low-weight, high rep total body workouts, 3 weeks of mid-range reps split into upper/lower (although I skimped on the lower body workouts since I am still running and do [...]
Read More...Man, this weather has been awful. May has been an average month in terms of inches of rainfall, but from mid-april through until this week, it has only rained on Wednesdays and weekends. This past weekend it started to rain, and it is not supposed to stop for at least another week. I am getting [...]
Read More...Some things that you find are just too cool. While reading the latest issue of “Make Magazine” (from O’Reilly Press), I saw an article about a cockroach powered robot. The cockroach has no brain, but is basically controlled a bunch of nerve cells throughout its body. (They can live and function without their heads until [...]
Read More...I got an email from the RIT Alumni Association that had a drawing of Ritchie the (cartoon) tiger holding a thermometer that denotes the number of donations that the school has gotten this year. For personal reasons, I found this picture extremely amusing, so I forwarded it along to a friend of mine that I [...]
Read More...Mid-day workouts are great. You do not have to get up at 5:30 in the morning in order to have time before work to get it done. You do not have to delay dinner until 8 or 9 o’clock at night due to working out after work. You get the warmest part of the day [...]
Read More...I got to thinking today about the structure of how I want the training log to work when I write it. A feature that I definately want to have is a place to keep comments in a journal type fashion about the workouts themselves. When I was in college, that was the best part of [...]
Read More...I tried a new pair of shoes for this evening’s workout, the Asics DS-Trainer X. The jury is still out a little on whether I like them. We ran a Baxter Woods workout, which is basically a 600 meter down hill trail followed by two sharp turns and a 200 meter uphill, making for a [...]
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