Stats: Weather Conditions: Temp: 81° F Humidity:52% Warm-up Walk: Start Time: 10:55 am Distance: 0.34 mi Time: 5:26 min Avg Pace: 15:44 min/mi Calories Burned: 36 Run: Start Time: 11:01 am Distance: 3.03 mi Time: 31:37 min Avg Pace: 10:25 min/mi Calories Burned: 316 Cool-down walk: Start Time: 11:33 am Distance: 0.38 mi Time: 6:10 min Avg Pace: 16:04 min/mi Calories Burned: :40 Today's half-hour run went fairly well, considering the high heat. I managed to crank out a 10:40:53 pace, (i... Read Full Story

OK, Andrew, so you were right. Big freakin' whoop. ;-) But on the plus side, I did make it 5 whole days without weighing myself; now that's almost a week! I think I'm going to make a regular habit of weighing myself on Sunday or Monday mornings to get a "beginning of the week" measurement, for consistency's sake. ;-) So here are the results: I lost 0.2 lbs & gained 0.2%. Since the variances are so minuscule, I'm not going to sweat the figures either way. Again, it's the trend that... Read Full Story

On second thought, I'm not so sure that running the Advanced 10K Training Program (from CoolRunning.com) is such a good idea. This week I did 16 miles, & the pre-training program starts at 31! Gulp! That's more than the recommended 10% weekly mileage increase, eh?! ;-) So, I think I'm going to race in the Rockville 5K, & not the 10K on 11/2/08. ;-) I'll still train for a 10K distance, but will probably not race it until I've adequately trained for the distance. For me, it's not just... Read Full Story

Stats: Weather Conditions: Temp: 77° F Humidity:50% Warm-up Walk: Start Time: 1:05 pm Distance: 0.62 mi Time: 10:00 min Avg Pace: 15:59 min/mi Calories Burned: 65 Run: Start Time: 1:18 pm Distance: 6.37 mi Time: 1:09:31 min Avg Pace: 10:54 min/mi Calories Burned: 663 Cool-down walk: Start Time: 2:28 pm Distance: 1.98 mi Time: 32:17 min Avg Pace: 16:15 min/mi Calories Burned: :208 Today's run went surprisingly well. I did 6 miles, which is the longest distance I've run thus far since 7/21... Read Full Story

Stats: Weather Conditions: Temp: 74° F Humidity:92% Warm-up Walk: Start Time: 10:31 am Distance: 0.35 mi Time: 5:13 min Avg Pace: 14:33 min/mi Calories Burned: 37 Run: Start Time: 10:36 pm Distance: 3.92 mi Time: 40:46 min Avg Pace: 10:22 min/mi Calories Burned: 409 Cool-down walk: Start Time: 11:18 pm Distance: 0.38 mi Time: 6:01 min Avg Pace: 15:43 min/mi Calories Burned: :39 OK, this is going to be a really minuscule post, because I've got literally no time to blog before running off to... Read Full Story

I was tweeting with runner-blogger pals (& fellow techies) Tim & Steve the other day about various topics - Feedburner counts, writing off-topic, what makes people want to read blogs, etc. And I thought I'd share some of my insights about those topics here, in a more in-depth fashion (i.e., extending beyond 140 chars!). So, let's address the first issue, Feedburner counts: If you've ever wondered why your Feedburner subscriber count fluctuates so much in a week, wonder no more. This... Read Full Story

I don't normally blog about world politics but this recent report from Johnny Chatterton, (organizer of the Facebook nonprofit sites, Burma Campaign UK & "Aung San Suu Kyi Day - October 24th"), literally brought me to tears & I just felt compelled to speak out against such brutal violence, cruelty, & injustice: "The situation in Burma is more serious than ever. Yesterday we received a horrific report of the Burmese army soldiers gang raping a women and then beheading her in northern Burma... Read Full Story

Stats: Weather Conditions: Temp: 75° F Humidity: 67% Warm-up Walk: Start Time: 7:58 pm Distance: 0.42 mi Time: 6:31 min Avg Pace: 15:20 min/mi Calories Burned: 44 Run: Start Time: 8:05 pm Distance: 3.07 mi Time: 30:27 min Avg Pace: 9:54 min/mi Calories Burned: 320 Cool-down walk: Start Time: 8:36 pm Distance: 0.39 mi Time: 6:01 min Avg Pace: 15:10 min/mi Calories Burned: 41 I wasn't scheduled for a run tonight, but decided to go out for one anyhow as a form of stress relief. I won't... Read Full Story

In my recent post, Hungry-Mungry, So What's My Frickin' Problem, I'd previously expressed concern that I might've gained 2 lbs. & 0.5% BF, but it turned out to (mostly) be a false alarm. I weighed myself this evening (even though I normally weigh myself in the morning & also realize that night-weighing typically produces higher weight & BF% numbers for me), & discovered that I did in fact gain a minuscule amount of body fat -- 0.3% BF, to be exact, but also actually lost an additional 0.2... Read Full Story

Stats: Weather Conditions: Temp: 62° F Humidity:54% Warm-up Walk: Start Time: 10:20 am Distance: 0.41 mi Time: 5:21 min Avg Pace: 12:53 min/mi Calories Burned: 43 Run: Start Time: 10:26 pm Distance: 5.09 mi Time: 54:03 min Avg Pace: 10:36 min/mi Calories Burned: 530 Cool-down walk: Start Time: 11:20 pm Distance: 0.33 mi Time: 5:27 min Avg Pace: 16:26 min/mi Calories Burned: :34 Boy, did I bite the dust today. I guess I shouldn't have been surprised about it, because I'd been dreading this... Read Full Story