The bright side of a Moon
Running schedule for the week:
Total of 16.1 miles.
A light week, because of the race on Saturday. I’m planning on two days of speed drills but haven’t decided which days. Or which drills, for that matter. I’ll make it up as I go along.
Didn’t run Saturday as planned. I did do a little bit of walking, but not really 3 miles worth. So I had to run today.
I decided I’d do a 4 mile run. As you’ll see below, I was very fast for the first 3 miles. I averaged a 9:25 mile pace! Unfortunately, the last mile, even though I tried to keep moving, took almost exactly 11 minutes, giving me an average pace for the whole course of 9:48, which is still good.
Here’s the half-mile splits:
Next week will be slightly different. I’ve got a tough race on Saturday, and am going to the beach on Friday. I’d like to run a little bit at the beach, weather permitting, but seeing how my times are improved on fresh legs (my times today and on Friday, for longer distances, demonstrate that), maybe I’ll do most of my running early in the week, focusing on speed work, and then take Thursday and Friday off.
I’ll post a schedule for myself later today.
Ran to work this morning. I did pretty good this morning, in part, because I didn’t run on Wednesday (rest day) and couldn’t drag myself out of bed Thursday morning as planned, so would have had to run Thursday evening… didn’t want to have only 8 hours or less between two long-ish runs, so I just walked 3 miles last night. The weather was nice, if a bit muggy, and the cottonwood trees were spewing their allergy-inducing cottonwood-y tufts all over my neighborhood, but it was still a good walk. Even if it was interrupted with my accidentally walking past the Iron Horse restaurant, falling in, and having a delicious chicken Belize tostada.
Today: 5.5 miles, total time 55:55.00, for a per-mile pace of 10:10 even! Yay!
Shhhhh… I’m in the middle of trimming Smacky’s claws.
Normally when I do this, I try to get it over with quickly, which always backfires in a way that leaves me wearing gloves and a long-sleeved shirt to work the next day in order to avoid the “Oh, my god! What happened to your HANDS and your ARMS?” comments from coworkers.
But no, I’ve figured out a slightly easier way.
If I sit in front of the computer long enough, he will come over and peacefully fall asleep in my lap. Usually with one leg or another sticking out oddly. I first noticed this (the arm-sticking-out part) a couple of nights ago, and didn’t until just tonight realize what it meant.
What it meant was that, if I had the nail clippers handy, I could probably, slowly, cautiously, and carefully, trim the claws on that paw without him noticing much. And if he did notice, he’s in such a mellow mellow mood that he wouldn’t do too much damage to, well, me.
When he does notice, he gets agitated, then wanders off, attacks one of his toys or watches the birds outside, calms down over the course of 10 minutes or so, and then wanders back, eventually curling up in my lap like nothing’s happened.
I’ve got his front left and rear left paws done, and one of the claws on his right front paw so far. I’m doing pretty good. He just finished cleaning himself and laid his head down, so as soon as I finish this post, I’ll get to work on the remaining claws.
Patience, it is said, is a virtue. Along with preventing blood loss from thousands of tiny cuts.
Google may be a good company. They certainly do what they do very well, and are constantly coming up with new ideas and innovations all the time. (Side note: I use a subsidiary of Google to post, although my actual site is hosted elsewhere.)
TimeWarner, Inc. may be a bad company. The massive amount of disparate media controlled by one gianormous corporation has led, I believe, to a poorly-informed American public. That’s an argument for another time.
However, even if you accept my initial assertions, it’s difficult for me to then conclude that Google is worth more than Time-Warner. Google is worth 80-billion-with-a-“b” dollars? Really?
Quick running update:
Ran in my neighborhood, down to the river and up through Sellwood Park, then back again. 3 miles. Here’s the splits:
Yes, my total time was 28:31, for an average mile pace of 9:30.35! I rock!
And now I’m hitting the showers.
Someone wake me up from this nightmare.
Apple is switching their hardware to Intel processors?
I’m stunned. This is going to be a huge mistake, for so many reasons.
So… many… reasons…
Running schedule for the week:
Total of 19 miles.
I think that’s a better distribution throughout the week. I’m not going to label Friday my “run to work” day since it depends on other non-running factors (notably, my social plans and my laundry situation). I’m increasing my total miles by a tiny .5 miles. Still working towards 25/week by end of summer, but, y’know, slowly.
Dammit… I went back and double-checked the total miles for my run. I use this mapping software on another computer to plot out routes, and like I said in my previous post, today’s 5+ mile route was a new one for me, so I wasn’t entirely sure I was following it properly.
At any rate, I missed a small section and the distance I actually ran was only 5.26 miles, give or take. Which slows down my pace (assuming my total time was correct) to around 10:28. Which isn’t bad, and feels closer to what I thought I was doing, but, damn, for a bit there, I thought I rocked a bit harder than I actually rocked.
