#5329 - running and photography
after i made that post about wanting to run the marine corps marathon and not even trying, since i still needed to get my 10-mile run in, i decided that i'd run until i found the race and that i'd stop to cheer the runners on. that was a good plan, but with one problem - i wasn't able to find the race! the runners had already passed through much of downtown dc by the point i made it down there - all i found were the remnants of the roadblocks and tons of tourists.
since i was still frustrated that i didn't bother even trying to run part of the marine corps marathon, instead of running my usual route when i have to run ~10 miles (from my apartment to the capitol it's about 4.5 miles, so i run to the capitol and circle the building and run back home), i ran to the capitol and then headed down the mall. i ran past pretty much every monument in dc - from the capitol to the washington monument, past the wwii memorial, around the lincoln memorial, past the vietnam memorial, and then up to the white house. once i passed the 5-mile halfway point and decided to keep on running i figured that i'd still have about 5 miles to go to get back home, so that really changed how i looked at the distance i had left to run. "oh, i'm only at 6 miles now, so if i turn around now i'll have run 11 miles. i can still run some more."
i felt like i probably still had some oomph in my tank, so when i got back to the apartment with 16.3 miles complete i contemplated turning around and running 5 miles out and 5 miles back to push me over 26.2 miles. it would have been just as if i had run the marathon that morning! thankfully common sense won out and i called it quits after 16.3 miles; i had already run that whole distance without taking in any additional liquids, i still didn't want to injure myself before my annapolis half-marathon, and i'd only be even more upset with myself for running a full marathon distance with nothing to show for it. as it was, i set a new personal record for distance by about 4 miles (the farthest i had ever run was just over 12 miles), so that's still nothing to sneeze at.
i'm still inching toward my fundraising goal for the american cancer society for the annapolis half marathon. thanks to some generous donations, i'm very close though! 1 week to go until the race.
caryn and i have still been facetiming each other pretty much every night to chat, and since she heard me mention something about livejournal (her: "you have a livejournal?!") we've added each other on here as well - she's lovethiscaryn. she came down with a cold a few weeks ago but when she was feeling better we started to make some plans for her to meet up with me on halloween - mom and dad were out of town visiting feisty_fitz for a week so i was staying in annapolis to cat- and house-sit - but those plans fell through since one of her friends was disappointed that it seemed nobody was going to be around for her birthday that night, so caryn went to visit with her friend instead. so, it's been about a month since i really saw her last.
last night was "outernational", an event during photo week dc where the photojournalists i support as part of metro collective teamed up with eric hilton of thievery corporation for a multimedia presentation where the photographers' photos were displayed on projections and set to music. it was a neat concept: one guy was on a video mixer, and eric hilton was on turntables, and the projections and the music fed off each other. there were a few technical difficulties with electricity, audio, and one of the projectors had some issues. there was an open bar (bar… singular), and that wasn't enough to support the hundreds of people who showed up - about 600 tickets were sold online beforehand, then probably another 200 or so people showed up and bought tickets at the door. we were a little sensitive to the technical issues as we were producing the event, but i'm not sure how much it impacted the audience. as for us, whenver we wanted a drink, we just bypassed the line and walked behind the bar and helped ourselves, hah.
it's funny, but after supporting metro collective for the past 4 or 5 years there was still a local member (gabriela) that i hadn't yet met until last night. i also was finally able to meet clary, their current intern; i had been on a conference call or two with her as we were preparing the current website, but that was all i knew of her. she had to leave around 10 to get ready to drive to a photoshoot she'd have to do early in the morning, though. i also met a photographer friend of hector emanuel (pablo martinez monsivais) who has won pulitizer prizes and so on, so that was very cool.
afterwards, hector and his wife and my old photojournalism instructor michael and some of their friends and i went to 18th street lounge (owned by eric hilton, and we were invited there by him afterwards) to chill. though i was worried about my sneakers and any dress code we made it in, but decided it was too loud to really chill so we headed out to adams morgan to rhumba café for food and drinks. hector and his wife invited me to crash at their place nearby if i had to, but i caught the metro and rode back home. got to see some pretty inebriated folks on my way to the metro, though.
i was showing hector photos on my phone of the ccrg championship bout since he was telling one of his friends how i used to play roller derby, and i think it was the first time hector had really seen my work. he was very impressed and suggested he and i work together to pull together a tight edit of about 15 of my shots that we could submit for a world press photo award. considering he's had his work published in various newspapers and magazines like newsweek and so on and won a world press photo award himself, i'm very excited about working with him to see what might be possible.
i'll say this about the cute girls i've seen out running and seeing so many stylish people in and around town and at the outernational event last night: it's kept me in a perpetually frisky mood. argh!
since i was still frustrated that i didn't bother even trying to run part of the marine corps marathon, instead of running my usual route when i have to run ~10 miles (from my apartment to the capitol it's about 4.5 miles, so i run to the capitol and circle the building and run back home), i ran to the capitol and then headed down the mall. i ran past pretty much every monument in dc - from the capitol to the washington monument, past the wwii memorial, around the lincoln memorial, past the vietnam memorial, and then up to the white house. once i passed the 5-mile halfway point and decided to keep on running i figured that i'd still have about 5 miles to go to get back home, so that really changed how i looked at the distance i had left to run. "oh, i'm only at 6 miles now, so if i turn around now i'll have run 11 miles. i can still run some more."
i felt like i probably still had some oomph in my tank, so when i got back to the apartment with 16.3 miles complete i contemplated turning around and running 5 miles out and 5 miles back to push me over 26.2 miles. it would have been just as if i had run the marathon that morning! thankfully common sense won out and i called it quits after 16.3 miles; i had already run that whole distance without taking in any additional liquids, i still didn't want to injure myself before my annapolis half-marathon, and i'd only be even more upset with myself for running a full marathon distance with nothing to show for it. as it was, i set a new personal record for distance by about 4 miles (the farthest i had ever run was just over 12 miles), so that's still nothing to sneeze at.
i'm still inching toward my fundraising goal for the american cancer society for the annapolis half marathon. thanks to some generous donations, i'm very close though! 1 week to go until the race.
caryn and i have still been facetiming each other pretty much every night to chat, and since she heard me mention something about livejournal (her: "you have a livejournal?!") we've added each other on here as well - she's lovethiscaryn. she came down with a cold a few weeks ago but when she was feeling better we started to make some plans for her to meet up with me on halloween - mom and dad were out of town visiting feisty_fitz for a week so i was staying in annapolis to cat- and house-sit - but those plans fell through since one of her friends was disappointed that it seemed nobody was going to be around for her birthday that night, so caryn went to visit with her friend instead. so, it's been about a month since i really saw her last.
last night was "outernational", an event during photo week dc where the photojournalists i support as part of metro collective teamed up with eric hilton of thievery corporation for a multimedia presentation where the photographers' photos were displayed on projections and set to music. it was a neat concept: one guy was on a video mixer, and eric hilton was on turntables, and the projections and the music fed off each other. there were a few technical difficulties with electricity, audio, and one of the projectors had some issues. there was an open bar (bar… singular), and that wasn't enough to support the hundreds of people who showed up - about 600 tickets were sold online beforehand, then probably another 200 or so people showed up and bought tickets at the door. we were a little sensitive to the technical issues as we were producing the event, but i'm not sure how much it impacted the audience. as for us, whenver we wanted a drink, we just bypassed the line and walked behind the bar and helped ourselves, hah.
it's funny, but after supporting metro collective for the past 4 or 5 years there was still a local member (gabriela) that i hadn't yet met until last night. i also was finally able to meet clary, their current intern; i had been on a conference call or two with her as we were preparing the current website, but that was all i knew of her. she had to leave around 10 to get ready to drive to a photoshoot she'd have to do early in the morning, though. i also met a photographer friend of hector emanuel (pablo martinez monsivais) who has won pulitizer prizes and so on, so that was very cool.
afterwards, hector and his wife and my old photojournalism instructor michael and some of their friends and i went to 18th street lounge (owned by eric hilton, and we were invited there by him afterwards) to chill. though i was worried about my sneakers and any dress code we made it in, but decided it was too loud to really chill so we headed out to adams morgan to rhumba café for food and drinks. hector and his wife invited me to crash at their place nearby if i had to, but i caught the metro and rode back home. got to see some pretty inebriated folks on my way to the metro, though.
i was showing hector photos on my phone of the ccrg championship bout since he was telling one of his friends how i used to play roller derby, and i think it was the first time hector had really seen my work. he was very impressed and suggested he and i work together to pull together a tight edit of about 15 of my shots that we could submit for a world press photo award. considering he's had his work published in various newspapers and magazines like newsweek and so on and won a world press photo award himself, i'm very excited about working with him to see what might be possible.
i'll say this about the cute girls i've seen out running and seeing so many stylish people in and around town and at the outernational event last night: it's kept me in a perpetually frisky mood. argh!