Today was a four-mile run, as my program has me starting to slowly stretch out my distances along from the long run on the weekend. At the start I felt pretty good, aside from wishing, as always, that I had gone to bed earlier last night (and many nights previous to that). I did a [...]
Archive for September, 2009
Week 2, Run 2
Posted in running, tagged half-marathon, running, training on 30 September 2009 | 1 Comment »
Week 2, Run 1
Posted in running, tagged half-marathon, running, training on 28 September 2009 | 1 Comment »
Despite skipping what would normally be a rest day to rejigger my schedule this week, I felt pretty good this morning on my three-mile run. I still feel like I’m going too slow on the second three-quarters of a mile or so (the stretch that features the major ascent). If memory serves (and it might [...]
The greatest hyperbole in the world
Posted in baseball, don't want to be an American idiot, ridiculing the NYT for sport, tagged baseball, New York Yanquís, Yankees on 27 September 2009 | 1 Comment »
Here’s an actual screen shot, captured moments ago, from the New York Times web site’s front page.
I loved loathed that second headline, which so neatly encapsulates everything I hate about New Yorkers, namely their obnoxious sense of superiority and total lack of self-awareness about same.
Moreover, the second headline especially captures the attribute that most compels [...]
Week 1, Run 4
Posted in running, tagged half-marathon, running, training on 27 September 2009 | 1 Comment »
After a scheduled non-running day yesterday, I wrapped up my first week of runs today with the first “long run,” which meant I ran four miles instead of three.
I started off pretty well, despite feeling tired from not getting quite enough sleep, and had a pretty good split time for the first .7 miles or [...]
Week 1, Run 3
Posted in running, tagged half-marathon, running, training on 25 September 2009 | 1 Comment »
I didn’t ache today, but I felt a little tired. A little tired in my legs, though not sore, but also tired generally. I’m willing to chalk up some of that to not getting quite enough sleep the past few nights, since I haven’t been very good about going to bed by 11. And, possibly [...]
Week 1, Run 2
Posted in running, tagged half-marathon, running, training on 24 September 2009 | 1 Comment »
Today’s run went pretty well. It was overcast, which meant I wasn’t staring straight into the sun as I crested the last couple of hills on my eastbound final leg. That was nice.
My legs (mainly my hamstrings and quads) felt a little tired. I’m guessing that’s because I was doing leg lifts yesterday. I read [...]
Week 1, Run 1
Posted in running, tagged half-marathon, running, training on 22 September 2009 | 1 Comment »
Today I did my first run on my half-marathon training program, and it went pretty well. It was a short run, just three miles, and I was feeling sore at the start after lifting weights yesterday. There were probably three decent hills in the mix, including a fairly lengthy one not quite halfway into my [...]
On running
Posted in running, tagged half-marathon, running, training on 21 September 2009 | 2 Comments »
And so it begins.
Tomorrow is the first run in my ten-week training program to prepare myself for the Seattle half-marathon on Thanksgiving weekend. Even though I did quite a bit of running on trails and roads over our recently concluded vacation, and despite having run several times a week on a treadmill for this whole [...]
Loafing in the courtroom
Posted in hockey, tagged Balsillie, Meatloaf, NHL on 12 September 2009 | 1 Comment »
This week has seen more hearings and days in court to try to resolve the status of the NHL’s Phoenix Coyotes, a team that owner Jerry Moyes put up for bankruptcy, leading Blackberry billionaire Jim Balsillie to offer an above-market bid for the ailing franchise in the hopes of relocating it to Hamilton, Ont., near [...]
Adventures in Google book search
Posted in acamademia, book learnin', the Internet is a series of tubes, tagged Google on 9 September 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Not that most undergraduates are likely to get the memo, but Geoffrey Nunberg points out how Google’s book search isn’t going to replace the library catalog quite yet as the place for locating sources and information.
There’s the sticky issue of Google getting publication dates so very wrong.
To take Google’s word for it, 1899 was a literary annus [...]
