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In lieu of an actual update...

Looking at next year's races is totally retail therapy for a runner, because I could do that, or those back-to-back, or hell yeah that. And it helps me look past the cold, dark New England winter.

So this is pretty much the definition of a mid-pack runner:

92/193 Overall
61/102 Male
9/16 Male 50-59

So I'm standing on top of the bell curve?

FWIW, 1:54:16 is a personal worst for the half marathon, but whatever, it was a beautiful day, and I did my at-the-moment best, which was actually better than I expected, so yay?

Okay, it's been a while, so here's something about last weekend, because it's almost like live-blogging at my pace...

Friday: Brother Jim was out from Wisconsin, to see Dad, whose lymphoma has reared up again, and who isn't doing nearly as well as the last 3? 4? times. More on that in a second. We found out about the visit last minute, and the ( Read more... )

Francie's mother died this morning. It was a long time coming, but still a shock when it actually happened ( Read more... )

55 minutes on the phone with my 88 year old dad, walking him through Thunderbird on the Windows 10 machine we set up for them yesterday (upgrade from XP, no you can't has Outlook Express, but just as glad we couldn't get Windows Mail working, because I don't know that UI at all ( Read more... )

The wheel turns again. But now, for the first time, I'm playing with a full deck ( Read more... )

The honor of the first race of the year goes to The Great Stew Chase 15K in beautiful Lynn. According to the official results, I logged 1:18:00, or 8:23/mile. 88/232 finishers = 38th percentile overall; 11/24 = 46th percentile in my division, oh well ( Read more... )

So my gym had a Nutrition Challenge, which I signed up to do before the rules were even announced. And when the rules were announced, it turned out to be Paleo for a month. Sigh, I could rant for a month about why the scientific basis of paleo is complete and utter bullshit, but I decided to follow through in the spirit of the thing, as an ( Read more... )

Moved 3 of the pwnies from the Ponderaia to their new home last weekend. I led out on Ofeigur because I know the trails better than anyone else. (Not bragging, but I personally entered 95% of the trails in the 3500 acre Harold Parker State Forest into OpenStreetMap myself.) Not that the route was complicated - go to the parking lot, cross the ( Read more... )