long run #17 of 18
Well faithful readers, it's been almost 5 months since I first set out to train for the full Vancouver marathon and the race is a mere 2 days away! I leave tomorrow for a 4 day weekend there and I'm super excited. The weather is supposed to be nice, I'm feeling good, and I'm as ready as I'll ever be. Here's the map of the course again...
Last weekend's run was a nice n' easy 6 miler and I've just been taking it easy this week with light runs, a lil' elliptical machine action, and some yoga at work.
I also had my first shiatsu massage last week which was beyond phenomenal. If you've never had one of these more intense, hurty massages, I highly recommend it. I felt like a different person afterward and had a second appointment this week that got a lot of tension issues I was having worked out.
If anyone wants a good masseuse recommendation, let me know and I'll hook you up with Jen from the Pro Club who did mine... she's got magic hands!
imonk and pinkpucca are also racing on Sunday... wish them luck!
They say you should train how you race (and vice versa) so I'll be taking my mp3 player with me during the marathon.
Poll Marathon Music
My timing goal for the race is to finish in under 5 hours. I know that's not very fast, but I'm not looking to set any world records here... if I beat 5, I'll be thrilled!and now for some misc. linkage...
-- This recent BBC Morrissey retrospective is awesome and well worth the listen.
-- skymob has a new mix! go grab from here.
-- I really got a kick out of this, Jodie Foster has always been cool...
-- Nike Transformers are awesome.
-- If online social networking interests you, then this video podcast interview with the co-creater of iminlikewithyou.com is well worth watching. It also introduced me to geni.com which is fascinating once you start to build out your family tree. I'm learning things about my family that I had no idea about!
-- I haven't listened to this yet, but it's a lecture on dubstep by one if its main men, Kode 9...
DUBSTEP LECTURE: The term dubstep may just be a new branding experiment for illbient, but one of the genre's most proficient enactors, Kode 9, lagging from a recent flight, shed some light on its dark contours when he spoke at length as part of the Red Bull Music Academy late last year. Kode described the music as a sideways outgrowth of the more reggae side of UK garage, which is to say music of choppy velocity that makes room for some dubby swing. The discussion is sadly lacking in many musical examples, but it's rich with details, such as how much it costs to cut your own dubplate, who Kode's working with, the pleasures in dispensing with 4/4 beats, and which British record stores are central to the scene. The file's available as an M4A, which is, essentially, an MP3 with images embedded.
-- The new MIA track is quite catchy!
oh boy do I have a doozy of an update to post when I get back next week... see ya then!
Last weekend's run was a nice n' easy 6 miler and I've just been taking it easy this week with light runs, a lil' elliptical machine action, and some yoga at work.
I also had my first shiatsu massage last week which was beyond phenomenal. If you've never had one of these more intense, hurty massages, I highly recommend it. I felt like a different person afterward and had a second appointment this week that got a lot of tension issues I was having worked out.
If anyone wants a good masseuse recommendation, let me know and I'll hook you up with Jen from the Pro Club who did mine... she's got magic hands!
imonk and pinkpucca are also racing on Sunday... wish them luck!
They say you should train how you race (and vice versa) so I'll be taking my mp3 player with me during the marathon.
Poll Marathon Music
My timing goal for the race is to finish in under 5 hours. I know that's not very fast, but I'm not looking to set any world records here... if I beat 5, I'll be thrilled!and now for some misc. linkage...
-- This recent BBC Morrissey retrospective is awesome and well worth the listen.
-- skymob has a new mix! go grab from here.
-- I really got a kick out of this, Jodie Foster has always been cool...
Click to view-- Nike Transformers are awesome.
-- If online social networking interests you, then this video podcast interview with the co-creater of iminlikewithyou.com is well worth watching. It also introduced me to geni.com which is fascinating once you start to build out your family tree. I'm learning things about my family that I had no idea about!
-- I haven't listened to this yet, but it's a lecture on dubstep by one if its main men, Kode 9...
DUBSTEP LECTURE: The term dubstep may just be a new branding experiment for illbient, but one of the genre's most proficient enactors, Kode 9, lagging from a recent flight, shed some light on its dark contours when he spoke at length as part of the Red Bull Music Academy late last year. Kode described the music as a sideways outgrowth of the more reggae side of UK garage, which is to say music of choppy velocity that makes room for some dubby swing. The discussion is sadly lacking in many musical examples, but it's rich with details, such as how much it costs to cut your own dubplate, who Kode's working with, the pleasures in dispensing with 4/4 beats, and which British record stores are central to the scene. The file's available as an M4A, which is, essentially, an MP3 with images embedded.
-- The new MIA track is quite catchy!
oh boy do I have a doozy of an update to post when I get back next week... see ya then!