Invigorating. Today I went for my first real solid run in a long time. 10 miles. I'm getting the mile pace for those distances right around 8:00 which isn't perfect, but I'd rather be running those paces now than in like June when that shit has to count. One thing that sucks about these longer runs is my determined routes. I've been going southwest which basically sends me right through little Italy and Pilsen. This areas would have stabbed/shot a goofy white kid like me on sight (especially since my dumbass elects to do these runs around 10pm) as little as 3 years ago. But i dunno, they don't bother me so much now. I guess if anything, it'll keep me from standing still. Knock on wood. Hard
Heh, as an aside, I loaded all the data from my ipod into the nike+ website and actually went to the site for the first time in ages. I was informed via pop up window (or flash module as that site is a Flash-o-matic piece of clunky shit IM oh so HO) that I have now run 423 miles on this ipod (which I purchases in Jan). I'm "Well on my way to reaching 500" and that "while I'm already a winner, I am on my way to being a champion". Awww, now don't that just make ya feel all warm and fuzzy inside? I guess that also implies I'll need to be purchasing new shoes in the not-too-distant future.
I'm going to Florida tomorrow night to observe the T-day, where we American rejoice in the fact Native Americans were so susceptible to small pox when the white folk settled here for the winter (yeah I know that reads weird to all my European readers). So like, don't break anything while I'm gone.
Comments (3)
so...you ran so hard it caused a double post? :P
Posted by mike f. | November 20, 2007 9:16 AM
Posted on November 20, 2007 09:16
Har har har
Actually the slow-ass interweb connection that has been lurking in our building did. I was going to rant about that on here, but never got around to it. Good fucking god though...it's like really sporadic (when the "slows" occur) and so I have to believe its because some asstard goes on a bit torrent frenzy and hogs the throughput for the whole building. If I gotta look like a dumbass on my own website so that guy can get his fill of pr0n, well, that just 'don't seem fair do it?
Posted by Dave McAnally | November 20, 2007 9:27 AM
Posted on November 20, 2007 09:27
I think there are similar situations on nearly every apartment building. my first (and only) apt. here in DM had the shittiest-of-shitty download speeds. it was something like 29 kb/s. sad indeed. any game I played and I got booted after 10 -15 minutes because the bucket my connection carried packets in had more holes than swiss cheese.
but I'm a bit older and a tad wiser now. so far Qwest has been good to me.
Posted by mike f. | November 20, 2007 2:53 PM
Posted on November 20, 2007 14:53