October 10th, 2008 by Funky Dung
It was the best of races. It was the worst of races.
On September 28, I ran a PR in the Great Race, finishing in 50:49. That's more than 3 minutes faster than last year's 53:56. The only way I could have been happier is if I'd broken 50 minutes.
The Chamber Classic half marathon was a different matter entirely. I'd hoped to run the Ikea HM, but the blessed event of my son's birth prevented that. I figured the Chamber Classic would be an adequate replacement race. My next HM opportunity won't be until late March. Training has been going well, as have races. I'd hoped to break 2 hours and felt ready and able to do so.
I was wrong. I did terribly. The race started out fine and through 8 miles I was on pace for a 2:00:39 finish. Something happened during the 9th mile, though. I hit a wall…hard. I completely ran out of energy and my legs felt like lead weights. I jogged occasional and forced myself to run through the finish, but I had to do a lot of walking. I finished in a dismal 2:14:30. Hopefully I'll be able to set a PR and break 25 minutes at the Race for Pace 5K tomorrow.
October 9th, 2008 by Laika
Since both Funky Dung and Jerry have recently entered the world of parenthood, I thought it fitting that my first guest post for this blog should discuss parenthood – specifically, attitudes toward parenthood in different religious groups.
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October 9th, 2008 by Peter Wall (guest atheist), syndicated from Notes
Profanity is useful. People need those words to express things that cannot otherwise be expressed. There are times when the artful use of non-profanity works better and there are times when you simply must have the quick punch of a “bad” word. And to have profanity, you need to maintain at least a loose taboo on certain words.
But this is ridiculous:
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October 3rd, 2008 by Peter Wall (guest atheist), syndicated from Notes
Sarah Palin was not a train wreck in the Vice Presidential Debate last night, but three things stood out for me.
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September 29th, 2008 by Peter Wall (guest atheist), syndicated from Notes
Check out what people are saying (and here) about an interesting new patent application filed by Google:
A system includes a floating platform-mounted computer data center comprising a plurality of computing units, a sea-based electrical generator in electrical connection with the plurality of computing units, and one or more sea-water cooling units for providing cooling to the plurality of computing units.
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