It’s now about eleven and a half hours until the race. I picked up my bib and timing chip this afternoon, got my free long-sleeved technical shirt (it’s a nice shade of green) and bought a nifty pair of gloves to wear (my hands have started to chap, I think from standing outside frying a [...]
Archive for November, 2009
Half-marathon eve
Posted in running, tagged half-marathon, running, training on 28 November 2009 | 1 Comment »
Week 10, Run 2
Posted in running, tagged half-marathon, running, training on 26 November 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I was a bit of a wimp today. Even though it was only raining lightly, I decided to stay indoors and run on the treadmill. I justified it by telling myself it’d be slightly faster, but also because I want to keep my shoes dry in advance of Sunday, and even if it hadn’t been [...]
Week 10, Run 1
Posted in running, tagged half-marathon, running, training on 24 November 2009 | 1 Comment »
That went much better. Granted, it was a short run, since I only did three miles. But I felt faster and ran quicker than I did on Sunday, even if my pace was still well short of where I had gotten right before getting sick.
My legs felt a bit sore, but at least the weather [...]
The green arches?
Posted in news, possible homes in exile, scumbags, tagged crass commercialism, environmentalism, Germany, McDonald's on 23 November 2009 | 1 Comment »
Perusing the headlines on Sme, I ran across a report about how McDonald’s is rebranding itself as “green” in its German restaurants.
No, they’re literally rebranding the chain as green. As in, the red in the classic red-and-white Mickey D’s color scheme is being changed to green. Those golden arches will now stand before a green [...]
This is why I could never be a military historian
Posted in acamademia, book learnin', don't want to be an American idiot, ridiculing the NYT for sport, tagged history, Second World War on 23 November 2009 | 1 Comment »
A big part of the reason I stopped watching the History Channel eons ago was that I grew tired of the constant assault of programming fixated on the Second World War. It seemed like there was always some documentary or special touting some minor campaign in the Pacific, or cheering the heroes of D-Day, or [...]
Week 9, Run 2
Posted in running, tagged half-marathon, running, training on 22 November 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As scheduled, I managed to get in my last pre-race long run today, completing eight miles on my regular route. It was the first time I had run outside in about a week and a half, which also made it the first time I had gotten in any real hill work in the past week.
And, [...]
Week 9, Run 1
Posted in running, tagged half-marathon, running, training on 21 November 2009 | 1 Comment »
Yeah, that’s right. It’s Friday and I’m only now managing my first run of the week. Of course, I was more or less bed ridden from last Saturday through Tuesday, and Wednesday was the first time I managed to leave the apartment all week. Even then, I wound up fainting in the middle of the [...]
Week 8, Run 4
Posted in running, tagged half-marathon, running, training on 15 November 2009 | 2 Comments »
Bleech. I came down with some sort of illness on Friday night, and I’ve been pretty useless this weekend. I spent virtually all of yesterday in bed, opting not to exercise because I had a mild fever, cough and general aches.
After sleeping about ten hours last night, I felt a lot better this morning. My [...]
Week 8, Run 3
Posted in running, tagged half-marathon, running, training on 13 November 2009 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday felt pretty sweet. Breaking my personal pace record by a healthy margin, powering to a fast finish, relishing the feeling of accomplishment at having run five miles by 8 a.m. — it was a great way to start my day, and I think it generally put me in a positive, upbeat frame of mind.
Today [...]
Week 8, Run 2
Posted in running, tagged half-marathon, running, training on 12 November 2009 | 1 Comment »
That was awesome. Since I was running five miles today, I was hoping to crack thirty-eight minutes, which would’ve represented a substantial (more than half a minute) improvement over my previous best for this distance, achieved the last time I ran my five-mile course a few weeks ago.
Though it was a bit chilly when I [...]
