The Portland Sea Dogs held their 5th annual Mother’s Day 5k this morning. It was overcast and it drizzled off and on, and there was a fairly monstrous wind at the start, but the race has been growing by leaps and bounds. Not even (slightly) foul weather can stop it, apparently. There were over 1000…
Tom Brady has signed a new contract with the Patriots. He had an $11 million 2 year contract remaining with the Patriots. Now, he has a 6 year contract worth about $60 million total, and is just coming into his prime as a quarterback. He is scheduled to make $14.5 million in signing bonus, and…
Getting the new roommate moved in is just about set. We have for the most part got the furniture and boxes of junk that we don’t want to keep in the apartment but aren’t ready to throw out yet in storage, and should be done with 1 or 2 more runs over there. We finally…
One of my biggest pet peeves since moving to Maine is being on Eastern time. We are far enough east to be on Atlantic time, and I hate having the sun go down at 3:30 in the afternoon. The entire point of daylight savings was to save energy during World War II (at least, in…
Running 800s (or 880s, as my coach refers to them) can be satisfying. We had a good 20 minute warm up, nice slow and easy. We got to the track before the high school meet had ended, so another 10 minute or so rewarmup was in order. The 800s were nothing fast (6:00 down to…
I can accept that professional athletes make ungodly sums of money. I am not really sure why, and I do not really care why. It does not bother me that Randy Moss looks at a $10,000 fine in the same way I would look at losing a dollar bill in a hole in my pocket….
The other week, 5 people ran the London Marathon. They then flew back to the United States and ran the Boston Marathon. One of them, Pam Reed, ran the London Marathon (3:25), and then ran from Boston to Hopkinton the next morning, only to race back from Hopkinton to Boston (4:13). That seems a little…
Doug Flutie is coming back to New England. I first heard it on the radio last night, and I was trying to think, why? That doesn’t make any sense. If New England had QB problems, they would want a young gun to step up, and not put the ball in the hands of somebody who…
Went to the team workout this evening, and it was one of those chilly (but not cold) days where it is just pouring. You always dread going out for your run, but once you are out there you can not imagine anywhere that you would rather be. At least, I usually can’t. I had another…
We finally got around to labeling the four cases of maple wheat and a new bitter that we had laying around. We decided to go with the picture of the statue for the bitter (a new label), and we kept the picture of the goats from last year’s maple wheat. The goats are from the…