Alex Munk, just looking around.

Last Friday was 100 day. I started in the 50’s last...

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 16:38:17 -0400

Last Friday was 100 day. I started in the 50’s last October.

Here’s some sunshine. I was trying to hold Eliza’s...

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 22:13:51 -0400

Here’s some sunshine.

I was trying to hold Eliza’s hands still last week. I wanted to show her how to put her hands together to make a church with a steeple and people inside. You know, where your index fingers are the steeple, your thumbs are the doors, and the rest of your interlaced fingers are the people.

She just couldn’t hold still long enough to let me do it.

I eventually got frustrated and thought, “Dude, if you would just listen to me, I’m trying to show you something beautiful here.”

And then I realized that that’s the way life is. Beauty is all around us, disguised as tedium and hard work.

Running

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 12:20:35 -0400

So what happened to my running? In July I ran 7 miles one day in my Vibrams, and then my knee hurt. Put me out for six weeks. That was after I spent all year working back up to 4 miles per day after my injury from racing a 10k.

I picked it back up when I got to Seattle, but the injury damaged my psyche. It felt like I was sneaking workouts in, hoping that my knees wouldn’t notice. No fun.

So in October I started CrossFit at a gym two miles from my apartment. Three days per week Carrie Klumpar brings the pain. Today we did:

3 sets:
Row 21 Calories
21 Box Jumps
11 Pull ups

My set times:
2:39
4:03
5:59

My theory is that running alone is a bad exercise routine. I needed to add some strengthening and conditioning for my whole body. CrossFit gives a much different kind of conditioning than I ever got from running. It’s usually 10-20 minutes of wheezing, grunting, kill-me-please sort of conditioning, followed by multiple days of I-can-barely-walk soreness. I have seen great results in my strength, flexibility, and condition.

So now that I’ve made some progress, my plan is to start running on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and maybe Saturdays, which are my off-days, and see where that takes me.

wp7. hmph. [update: meh]

Thu, 03 Feb 2011 00:28:00 -0500

Update: “Meh” is better than “hmph.” That’s progress. There is finally a viable Reader for wp7! Feed Reader 2.0 actually works! Five stars just for working. It has a Play Audio button that will read the post to me. Awesome. Cheering for you, wp7. You can do it, little wp7. (That was somewhat condescending. Where’s my January update? It’s March 16th.)

And Tumblr, where’s my Tumblr wp7 app?

So I went through a two week phase where I loved my wp7, Jenny.

Love that when I add a FB friend, he shows up in my contacts, with all his FB contact info. If he’s already in my contacts, then his FB profile merges nicely (always with the option to unmerge).
Love that I can see anyone’s FB news feed right from my contacts, I can write on his wall, and I can comment/reply/hit links from my contacts. No FB app necessary.
Love the auto-upload to SkyDrive.
Love the whole UI. It’s excellent.

But, things are getting worse on my list of reasons not to get a wp7.

I was out of the US for two weeks, and it couldn’t get on my hotel’s wifi. My co-worker, with an Android, got on without a problem.
Also out of the US, (in airplane mode the whole time), I could get on my company wifi, but at random intervals (don’t know how or why) I would get kicked off and onto the guest network that required a proxy.
Browsing experience is awful. You can only go forward/back during your session. If you go to another browser window, or leave IE, and come back, then forward is disabled, and back takes you back to the last place you were on the phone.
Marketplace crashes often, and crashes hard. Three hours ago I was looking for a Reader app. Clicked on “All”, and it gave me the “loading” bits. Back didn’t work. Had to hit the Windows button to get back home. Ever since, Marketplace won’t load. It starts to open, and then crashes. This happens often. Requires a reboot of the phone.
No good RSS Reader choice, and Google reader in the browser isn’t great.
No official Tumblr app.
Can’t highlight from my Kindle app. Boo.
SkyDrive itself is no good as a photo gallery. Picasaweb is one million times better. Of course, SkyDrive is a hard drive, not a photo gallery. I don’t even want it to change. I want to auto-upload to Picasaweb.

So, meh. I want this phone to be awesome, because the FB integration, the auto-upload, and the UI are awesome, but I’m not sure if I trust that the coming updates will fix the stuff that I hate. It doesn’t make me feel good that the update promised for “January” is now promised for “Coming Soon”. Boo.

Music + Videos

Thu, 23 Dec 2010 16:11:55 -0500

A minute ago I was browsing Bob Marley albums in the Music + Videos app on my Windows Phone 7. (I named the wp7 Jenny, by the way.) The app froze, and after a minute I hit the Windows button to kill it. I tried to open it five times. Nothing. It would show the Loading thing with the dots flying across the screen, and the it would exit. I had to reboot the phone to get Music + Videos to load again.

While I’m at it, I want to complain about the branding again. I hate that the phone says at&t on the top, Samsung on the bottom, and Samsung and Windows Phone on the back. Also, when the phone boots, it shows Samsung with a black background, then it turns orange and shows at&t, and then it turns black and shows an animated Windows Phone logo. The phone would look so much better if it just showed Windows Phone on the back and at startup (or even just the Samsung logo).

Windows Phone 7 Sadness

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:50:00 -0500

More reasons not to get a wp7:

Can’t buy/download music directly from the phone. Huh? All (yes, all) of the music I purchased from iTunes I bought while I was out and about. I heard a song I loved, went iTunes on my phone, and purchased. Can’t do that on my wp7.
[edit: yes you can. there’s a Marketplace link within the app.]
Marketplace gets in a state where it just won’t open. It says “Loading” for about 5 seconds, and then quits. Rebooting the phone doesn’t work. It feels like the service is just down. Either way it’s unbelievable. This happened last night, the night before, and this morning. On each occasion I tried for ~5 minutes. Rebooted and everything. Super lame.
Had the same issue this morning with Music + Video. Happened after I synched. Difference though is that after a reboot it worked find.

Failing apps, and have to connect to a machine to get music. Really disappointing.

iPhone to Windows Phone 7

Tue, 21 Dec 2010 17:50:00 -0500

I got a Windows Phone 7 a few days ago. The last picture I posted was my iPhone, face down, in the Microsoft Store bag. It looked so tired there. It’s been the most satisfying electronic device I’ve ever owned. I’m not a fan of OSX or the iPad, both of which I own, but my iPhone is/was impressive.

I wasn’t going to make the change, but then my friends started bringing the Samsung Focus to work. Yes, I work for MSFT, so there was an additional incentive in there.

Reasons to get a Windows Phone:

People Hub. Collects all your lists and combines them in one location without trying to own them.
Live tiles and lock screen. Apps can display stuff on the tile so you don’t have to go into the app. Weather, traffic, your next calendar appointment (even Google Calendar), etc. Super cool.
Office integration. OneNote and Sharepoint on my phone.
Voice Commands. Hold down the center button, say “Open Outlook” or “Call Molly”. I think my iPhone required various clicks to do that.
Zune. Yes, I said Zune. Zune Pass costs $15/mo. You listen to any and every song you want. You get to keep 10 songs forever.

Reasons not to get one:

Old school voicemail. Enormous fail. I love visual voicemail on my iPhone. May have been a deal killer if it weren’t for the employee incentive.
IE. Yes, you have to use IE. Maybe Mozilla could make a browser app. I don’t know.
OK, the reality is that it’s not too bad. But the URL bar and the controls to add a tab or add to favorites only come up in portrait view. Landscape view is just to view. Makes browsing yucky.
Worse, the Back button is powered by the phone’s native back button. The forward button is under More in the controls. Yucky.
Marketplace has no search. So weird that I am still looking for it bec I can’t believe it. So if you want to find an app, bet on a category and get scrolling.
[edit: Yes it does. It’s the dedicated search button. I didn’t even consider that the dedicated search button could do anything other than open a browser and go to Bing. I found this by accident in Outlook. Not sure how I feel about this. It’s hard to deal with a mix of soft/hard buttons.]
Other tiny issues.
Can’t find a way to turn off the sound when the camera snaps a photo. Lame.
Shutter speed is as slow as my iPhone 3g. Super lame. I don’t care about White Balance, Image Effect, Contrast, Saturation, EV, and other settings. I care about shutter speed. I push the button -> the picture is taken. That’s what I want.

I’m sure I’ll have more. I just wanted to log all this.

Overall, I can’t believe it, but I don’t miss my iPhone. That’s more “wow” than I expected.

Photo

Sat, 18 Dec 2010 12:28:50 -0500

Back in the Saddle

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 01:30:54 -0400

I feel like I just got back from the longest vacation of my life. Oh wait. That’s exactly what happened. Graduated in June. Spent a solid month (200 hours?) getting to know the LAMP stack, EC2, and the beauty of RESTful API architecture. Probably spent too long doing that, and then I remembered I had to get myself and my three favorite people to Seattle. That took a month. Then three weeks finding the post office and close Indian food.

Last Monday I put on the ‘ol clown suit (khakis and a button-down) and headed off to New Employee Orientation for the most boring eight hours of the summer.

Tuesday I re-met my new manager (knew him pretty well last summer bec he’s good friends with a good friend of mine) and learned that I have the most awesome job on the planet.

Wednesday another ray of sunshine hit when my skip-level manager (my manger’s manager) showed up at work in a t-shirt and jeans. I’m just a t-shirt sort of a guy, and I love seeing signs of casual-ness around the office.

Did this turn into a day-by-day break down? It wasn’t supposed to. The point is that I’m back at work, clearing the cobwebs out of my brain, and excited to be in Seattle. Haven’t read a blog post of any sort since mid-July.

Holy Trailing Newline

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:09:46 -0400

I think many of my family members are wondering what on earth I’m doing in the corner of a spare bedroom of my mother-in-law’s basement. It being summer and all, and having just graduated and all, and having two really fun 1 year olds and all, it is kind of crazy to be holed up. So I thought I’d take a moment to add some color to everyone’s perception of what I’m doing.

I just spent an hour trying to figure out where a newline was added to my response. I was getting this error:

XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity
Location: http:///dev/alpha/index.php/api/booktype
Line Number 2, Column 1:

I’m trying to make my server respond with (valid) xml, and a blank line was being added as the first line of my output. I got really close to my screen. I searched and researched every line of code. I dug through CodeIgniter’s REST base controller and scrutinized every character of the _format_xml response function that actually builds the xml. Nothing.

Then I copied an example implementation, completely gutted it, copied in my function so that the only thing in it was the function I had written, and that was presumably adding a newline at the top of the response, redirected my browser to this implementation, and … it worked. I toggled back and forth between it and the controller I had written for about 10 minutes. Could not see the difference. Finally stepped through the two files line by line and realized…

any white space outside of the tags is part of the response!!!

Don’t forget that. I had an empty line in my controller php file at the very end, after the closing php tag. That line became the first line in my response, and my formatted xml came after that. So the browser interpreted the sum as invalid xml.

These are the adventures of a Microsoft developer in LAMPLand.

Amazon EC2

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:45:58 -0400

So what on earth am I up to these days? I just spent two days learning about Amazon EC2 and deciding how I’m going to run a web server on it. I’m using a public AMI (Amazon Machine Image) that’s EBS (Elastic Block Store) backed.

To run what you would think of as a web server, you really need an Instance whose Root Device is an Elastic Block Store. Otherwise, all data persisted to your Instance is lost if your Instance is Terminated. You can leave it running forever… if you want to pay 8.5 cents per hour. To be able to stop an Instance, so you don’t have to pay for it while you’re sleeping, it has to be EBS backed. An EBS costs 10 cents per GB per month. Far less than 8.5 cents per hour.

The public AMI I used as my base is ami-0efc1467. It’s a Ubuntu Linux 10.10 Maverick Meerkat image.

I installed the LAMP stack.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install lamp-server^

I installed PhpMyAdmin

sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin
(got a 404 Not Found until I ran:)
sudo ln -s /usr/share/phpmyadmin /var/www
(but I think that all I needed to do was restart apache:)
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

I’m spending the rest of my day deciding if I ought to use simpleDB instead of MySQL, and learning how to forward HTTP requests to the right places so that the right code handles them. And I still need to decide what language to write my server code in. Thinking PHP.

After I take care of those decisions, and handle any installation/configuration of tools, I’ll create my own AMI so I can have an easy way to start from scratch.

I broke in my Vibram FiveFinger Bikila’s today with a...

Fri, 21 May 2010 13:54:56 -0400

I broke in my Vibram FiveFinger Bikila’s today with a quick 3.8 mile run on this route. I got them from Marathon Sports by Copley Square on Boylston Ave. There were three pairs of Vibrams in the store. One of them was exactly what I was looking for. Size 43 (10.5 - 11), white and red Bikilas. They were even returns, and a touch scuffed, so I got them for 85% of retail: $85 USD.

Eighty-five dollars will be an absolute bargain if they last as long as people say they do. I got about 285 out of my Vomero 4’s, 375 out of my Mizuno Mushas, and they cost $140 and $90 respectively. I’ve heard, although no one’s had the Bikilas for long enough to know for this line, that people got over 1000 miles out of the old ones. If I get 500 I’ll feel well served.

That leads me to my first run. I’ll tentatively say that I love these things. It’s NOT barefoot running. Let’s get that out in the open. I ran 2.8 miles barefoot yesterday, and 3.8 in my new Bikilas today. And it’s not, not, not the same. The Bikila has 7 millimeters of sole at its thickest point under the ball. And the sole, while flexible, is still one piece. If you think about your foot, it moves as if the ball were independent from the heel. Add a sole on the bottom, and it’s harder for your foot to control the downward pressure from the impact.

Nonetheless, if going from Vomero 4’s (the Cadillac of running shoes, big floaty, like running on clouds) to Mizuno Mushas (“minimalist” runwear or “light weight trainers” where “light weight” refers to the thin sole) is a big step, then going from Mushas to Bikilas is a step similar in magnitude. It’s like the most light weight shoe I’ve ever worn.

This is a very good thing. I’ve been running barefoot a lot, and I think it’s good for me. The issue I have with it though is that my goal is not to be a barefoot runner, and building up my foot toughness to match my endurance and the condition of the muscles in the rest of my legs. I’m trying to qualify for the Boston Marathon, not trying to qualify for the Boston Marathon barefoot. So my goal is to get value from running barefoot with as little disruption to my training as possible.

It feels like Bikilas are going to help me do that.

I really like that the Bikilas make me feel a lot closer to running barefoot. If not perfectly like barefoot, close enough for my purposes.
My feet didn’t hurt at all. The general wear on my foot didn’t build up at all throughout the run. Usually as I run barefoot the pain builds and builds until I have to put my shoes on.
I didn’t have to pay attention to rocks. I could feel rocks, but not enough that they hurt. so I didn’t have to spend large amounts of my precious little brain power avoiding rocks.
Since I have a sole, I can increase my inches covered per stride. When I run barefoot the ground is like sand paper, and so to reduce friction, instead of striding, and pulling pavement under me, I have to move fewer inches per stride. My Bikilas don’t limit my inches per stride, and so I can run much faster.
No laces. Ahhh.
When I got back from running, I was feeling the strain right on my calves. That’s exactly what I was hoping for.
Bikilas: 6 oz. each.
Mushas: 7.8 oz. each.
Vomero 4’s: 12.4 oz. each.

I played around a bit with Docs.com. So happy that MSFT is going...

Fri, 21 May 2010 12:26:57 -0400

I played around a bit with Docs.com. So happy that MSFT is going in this direction, but there’s still a ways to go.

http://docs.com/12FO

Here’s a copy of my thoughts. The originals (feel free to edit the document to add your own thoughts) are in the document.

Feels like Word. Cool!
Click on Spell Check. Looks like it only checks the word the cursor’s on. Lame. Is this some attempt to make docs.com not as great as the full version? Boo. When a feature is F-R-E-E in your gmail, you expect it to be free in something like this. Not doable? Yeah right.
No track changes. OK, maybe this isn’t an expected feature, but it would have been nice.
No simultaneous editing. You have to click “Finish Editing” at the top you won’t be able to open the doc on another device.
As I just learned the hard way, “Finish Editing” doesn’t mean “Save and Finish Editing”. Two separate actions. Who reads the warning boxes anyway? Feels like instead of having the “Are you sure you want to navigate away from this page” thing with OK and Cancel, which looks like it’s from your browser (Looks just like when you hit Back and your browser warns you that you’re going to resend data to the server.), it should be a box that’s clearly from the docs app that says “What do you want to do with your unsaved changes?” and then have buttons that say “Discard and Close”, “Save and Close”, and “Cancel and continue working”.
Docs app crashes iPad Safari solid. Totally unusable in iPad Safari.

Steve and I took an important step toward friendship...

Sat, 01 May 2010 23:37:00 -0400

Steve and I took an important step toward friendship today.

Jaadu VNC (I think they changed the name of their app to iTeleport or something.) released an iPad update, and now I can nicely VNC to other machines. The picture is a screen shot of Excel 2010, on Windows 7, VNC’ed to from Steve. It’s almost a viable solution.

So if Jaadu VNC did all the work, why am I better friends with Steve? Well, because this is an example of the vision coming to fruition. I think there is an industry of apps out there that will make the iPad worth $299 (The other $200 will always be hype).

I first VNC’ed to my OSX laptop from my iPhone a year ago. That was anticlimactic bec the screen was so small that it was really painful to use. and bec the VNC server crashed on my laptop at home, rendering it useless. I got burned a couple of times and quit using it.

I wish there were an actual keyboard on the iPad, complete with tab, shift, arrows, numbers, and the rest. All this clicking from screen to screen is fine on the iPhone, but the iPad feels like it should be different.

This Win7 install runs on a server in my closet. I installed VMware’s ESX 4.0 on it last fall. I have half a dozen vm’s, one of which is running Win7. That’s where I have VS2010 and Office 2010. Thanks to MIT I have four static IP addresses. Currently thinking about what I’m going to do when I leave this mini Garden of Eden. EC2?

My dream is to be able to use my iPad (Steve) as just a UI for all of my vm’s. Maybe the solution includes a real keyboard that I carry around with Steve. Don’t know.

That reminds me that I need to search for a shell application for the iPad. Hmmm.

I entered the 21st century today. Or maybe the 21st century...

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:43:00 -0400

I entered the 21st century today. Or maybe the 21st century dragged me in, in spite of myself.

I purchased 20GB of storage from Google for five dollars per year.

My resistance has never been about security, privacy, or ownership. It’s been about the subscription. It’s always bugged me that online services want me to pay into perpetuity for something static.

But I was chatting with my old friend Benjamino McMurry last night, and he told me he stores all of his pictures on Picasaweb. He said he purchased 20GB, he stores all his photos online in full size, and he’s happy about it.

I felt something change in my brain. I instantaneously decided to do this same.

Believe it or not this is a pressing issue. I need to back up my system (pictures, mainly) bec I need to upgrade to Snow Leopard bec I need to install Xcode bec I need to learn how on earth Apple development works bec development is my business now and bec my RAC guy is almost done with my MVP which I will surely have to maintain/extend.

All of this has been swimming around in my head for a two weeks, poking at the soft spots. So when Ben told me he bought 20GB, my brain just said, “Yes.”

It’s interesting that no amount or manner of marketing has swayed me in the slightest for years.

This is what Crossing the Chasm/The Four Steps to the Epiphany /Purple Cow are about. Mass marketing is pointless as an influencial tool. It’s good for awareness, which may build credibility. But if ur ever going to scale, you have to find people like Benjamino and make them really happy. Those people are the key.

http://picasaweb.google.com/alexanderm

Thoughts on my iPad

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 13:01:00 -0400

Things that I don’t like:

I keep finding myself wanting something to prop it up so I don’t have to hold it up. What if it could be attached to a bottom part, connected at a hinge that you could adjust perfectly to how youre sitting at the time. Wait, I have one of those in my bag too…

The first thing I did was fire up the browser. After just a minute realized that it’s an ok experience, at best. First of all, the forward/back buttons, and the other buttons you know and love on your iPhone browser, like to toggle to a different open page and add a link to your desktop, are all at the top of the browser. This is a problem since you have to hold up the device. So you have to reposition your hands to hit any of that. I wished I could move the whole navigation bar to the bottom, or to split it in half and put half on either side.

I can’t edit my google docs. Spreadsheets are editable, sort of. But docs are just out. Boo.

No flash. Don’t tell me HTML5 is going to kill flash. Just get me flash and deprecate it when the world turns.

When I browse the web, I’m often looking for something. Ctl-F/Cmd-F is one of my best friends. For those of you who don’t know this bit of magic, you hit control-f (windows)/command-f (mac), and your browser sends control to a search box. So you hit ctl-f, and then immediately type whatever word you’re looking for. The browser will find the first one, and then you can hit next to find the next occurrence of that word. Well, , on your Giant iPod, there is no way to do this. Boo.

Things I love:

Potential for apps that will be really useful. Enter Everauthor, but that’s another story. iBooks is really nice, and I can see myself reading on this device.

My mouth is watering for an iPad update of my VNC client. I have a Windows 7 desktop running as a VM on VMware’s ESX (a free hypervisor that is rock solid and can host dozens of VMs) on a machine in my closet. A good implementation of this could bridge the gap between the iPad and my laptop, and I could finally leave my laptop at home every day. I dreamed of this when I got my iPhone, and got it working, but the iPhone is just too small.

Google Reader, except that most videos linked to from blogs are flash. No flash.

All the new friends. People want to see it and touch it. I’m so much more popular now. I bought early enough to be part of the club!

The Giant iPod Touch, I mean The iPad

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 09:48:02 -0400

Doctor Cialdini, professor of influence, lists Scarcity as one of the seven principles of influence. Is anyone surprised that my Apple store “can’t keep iPads in stock?” I had to put my name on a list to be notified when my iPad had arrived. After the notification, I would have 24 hours to claim my iPad. Lo and behold, my notification came one day after I put my name on the list. Call me a nonbeliever, but I think this is Dr Cialdini’s principles well learned by Apple employees with fancy degrees.

As the girl swiped my card in the store i said to her, “You know what I’m most excited about is the experience of opening it.” This is usually the best part of buying an Apple product.

My sister sat next to me as I opened it to experience it with me. She’s a long time Apple user. We waited until the kids were in bed and the dishes were done. We sat next to each other on my orange Ikea futon. We took a deep breath and held hands. The experience was bad. Bad job guys.

First, the iPad doesn’t come with ear buds. Witten on the box? Probably, but it’s an expectation with a device like this. I guess Steve thinks we should all tighten our belts a little, what with the recession and all. Besides, I only paid $500.

It does use the same cable as my iPhone does, so that was an expectation met. And the little envelope that comes with the device is pretty sexy. There’s an instruction manual in it, which consists of one small sheet of paper. It points out the power button, volume buttons, and rotation lock. That was really pretty. An expectation exceeded, but that was just a piece of paper.

Then we turned it on. Can’t use it until you plug it into iTunes. Lame. I wanted to finally get a separate account from Molly, so we tried to go through that process. It was messy, confusing, and we ultimately failed. Oh well. Using my existing account isn’t so bad, because I synched all my apps from my phone.

I named the device Steve, and I’m posting this with him. I give the acquisition/opening experience a B or B-.

Yesterday I did my whole run barefoot. 5.2 miles around the...

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 20:43:12 -0400

Yesterday I did my whole run barefoot. 5.2 miles around the Boston Museum of Science.

http://bit.ly/a27MLC

I’m proud of myself. Last week I ran my whole run around Longfellow Bridge barefoot. That’s 4.3 miles.

In February I started going out barefoot with my shoes and socks on my hands. I’d run until my feet hurt, and then put my shoes on. I’ve learned a few things about barefoot running:

1. If the temperature is below 40F, it’s really cold you your feet.

2. The pavement ripping your skin is not what stops you. It hurts under your skin. It’s like your bones have to toughen up.

3. You don’t realize with your shoes on how much torque you put on your feet to pull the pavement under you. With shoes on, you’re not just picking up your feet and putting them down again. You’re putting your foot down and pulling the pavement underneath you. Without your shoes on, you can’t do this, and you’re forced to pick up your feet and put them down again.

4. The roughest part of the run from Westgate around the MoS is the first .6 miles down to Mass Ave. After that it gets substantially easier because there’s a lot of smooth cement.

5. Re: 4, even tho it’s smoother after Mass Ave, part of the easierness is that your feet sort of get used to the pain. If you push it too hard, you get blood blisters (shown above) and you hobble around for the rest of your day.

6. A good way to deal with blood blisters is to stick a pin into them, and drain them. Sleep on it, and tomorrow you’re ready to go.

It’s odd to me how much I love to run. I mean, all you do is get out and pick up your knees for a while. I love it because for old guys like me it’s more of a head game than anything else. It is so hard for me to stick to my schedule without pushing harder than my rickety old body can handle.

Also of note, I ran four Yassao 800’s in 2:59, 2:59, 2:54, 2:54. Jogged 200 meters slowly in between each. I guess that’s a starting point, and over the summer I’ll try to do that once every other week or so, and work up from four to ten, keeping the time the same.

Photo

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 17:22:34 -0400

The girls like it here too… When they’re allowed to...

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 16:45:35 -0400

The girls like it here too… When they’re allowed to run free.