Right Here, Right Now 3.0

Castle costs...?

iTunes will gladly sell me a season of Castle, but can't I find out how much it costs first?

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Marathon Man - Beat by my feet and the heat

The goal today was 19 miles, via two 9+ mile loops anchored at my house. (Looping around the house is to allow me to make a mid-way head stop, restock fluids, etc.).

The first half went fine. The second half was never fine. Almost immediately I had some foot pain that didn't really go away. And by 6 miles in I was out of water and that was all she wrote.

The contrast with the fairly successful 17 miler a a week ago is pretty stark. The primary difference was the heat. Here's hoping it's cool for the Cowtown.

The longest I've run is the 17 miles. Even if today had gone well, I'd have only added 2 miles to that. The marathon will be 9 miles longer than anything I've done yet. I really wish I had a couple of 22 milers under my belt before going out that long. Next week's long run is only 10 miles and the Cowtown is the following week. It will be good to be done.

If you're just joining us, this is all about me running the Cowtown Marathon this October as a fund raiser for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Details can be found here. You can make donations here.

Three in the morning and then seven at night

This is Wednesday's run. I'm not sure what Pugsley's doing.

http://www.runningahead.com/maps/82504ad4efd54e7998b839356307a0d3

(was supposed to do three to four today, but was on the road instead.)

http://www.runningahead.com/maps/f905ec492e7e4965960d80ab737252b0

Middle five at a higher heart rate, although I've not gotten the heart rate monitor to work so I'll just run a bit faster.

Why yes, that new naming scheme for screen shots is much more useful, as long as the name isn't important.

On the Mac, in the past, when you created screen shots they'd be named sequentially Picture 1, Picture 2, etc. With Snow Leopard they are now date and time stamped, as in "Screen shot 2009-09-13 at 10.57.40 AM". The problem is, the way the file names are truncated in the Finder, the distinctive parts of the name aren't visible.

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Marathon Man - Splat

Hey Campers, thanks for tuning in again.

I'm celebrating today. I finished 17 miles, ran the whole way and lived to tell of it.

First 10: http://www.runningahead.com/maps/c6921ee3553d4eeb87c00c7357ce0821
pit stop at the house - restock water, etc.
Then 7: http://www.runningahead.com/maps/1a82e7cc0a994509bc7ccc69b7515b4d

It was a weird day. First, about a mile and half in I tripped on a tree root and went flying. Well, it was probably more like tipping over with some velocity. There was blood.

(Not at all) Oddly I had done the same thing about 6 years ago - went flying, got up and kept running. I knew this was a test. So, I got up and kept running.

The next aberration was the weather. It was over 100° yesterday. Today, not so much. It was downright chilly. And there was thunder and lightening. We don't get thunder and lightening very often in Sacramento. And a very light rain. I was wondering when my friend Mark would be by to pick me up. The weather really never got started, just these odd bits of activity.

My friend Steve was not at all happy that I'd had scheduled a house stop in the middle of the run - he was sure that I'd get too comfortable and just stop. Well, no worries, Mr. White. I left the clock running to encourage a brief stop and spent less than two minutes in the house .

So, it was a good run and now I'm having the usual post run soreness, compounded by some shin and palm clean up.

If you're just joining us, this is all about me running the CowTown Marathon this October as a fund raiser for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Details can be found here. You can make donations here.