July 23, 2010
July 18th 2010 was the AMICA 19.7 Tellico Sprint Triathlon, one of ten races in the AMICA Triathlon Series as well as one of the outstanding local races managed by Race Day Events.
For the second year, Race Day Events has made ASD Athletes the benefiting local charity for this event. ASD Athletes is able to use the event as an extra selling point raising money allowing sponsors to have their name/logo on the race shirts plus goodies in the race packets, etc. Also, a portion of the race entry will be allocated to ASD Athletes.
Last year, $1000 was raised just on the entrants portion alone. I am not quite sure what the amount is this year, but the number of finishers is comparable to last year, so I would think that it is in that ballpark. Although we started really late in getting sponsors for this year event, there was less of the “unknown” about the event. I think we learned a number of key things about the event, and had a number of great ideas that came to mind too late to do anything about it for this year’s event, but will be awesome for next year’s event.
As soon as I get word of when the date is for next year’s event, we are going to start to get sponsors!
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July 3, 2010
It’s been quite a while since I have done the weekly PhotoHunt, which is hosted by a fellow Tennessean… TNChick.
This week’s Theme is “OPEN” and here is my submission for the week:
The sky is about to OPEN up and dump the rain
About the photograph:
Taken with STELLA, Canon XT DSLR
I was driving at the time with a huge summer storm getting ready to rain. I was hoping to capture some bolts of lightening since the skies were very active. All I got was a bunch of ominous clouds…
Click Here to find out the theme! Changes each week… get out and shoot!
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June 30, 2010
I’m not too far behind with keeping up blogging like I said I would. As of typing of this paragraph, I have not recorded anything for Gravity@1053′ but that is not to say that I won’t later this morning, or during lunch.
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(Four Hours Later) Wouldn’t you know it… work kept me from being productive! AH SNAP! Not sure if I will have much time to record anything tonight, but we’ll see. Perhaps, I can get a guest or two on the next Gravity Episode!
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June 27, 2010
On the photography side of things, I haven’t been that active that much either. The Kids had a few friends have birthday parties early in the year and I took pictures there. But other than that, there are two photography projects for this year, one which is current and the other one on the horizon.
The first project is Artwork for Farragut Christian Church. The guy who is charge of the artistic side of happenings at the church (e.g. worship band, etc) had an informal meeting after one of the services for all artists who would want to submit artwork which corresponded to the sermon for that week. The church is currently going through a year long stint through the book of Matthew. I was all over signing up to submit artwork, as in photography, for this. It gave me a subject matter, or at least a bible verse(s) to use as a reference, for me to go out and take new pictures. Although, the artwork that I submitted this past week was an picture from the Archives, but for the most part, I try to think of new material. More importantly, it gave me a deadline!
TO date, I have submitted 2 pieces for the church. The first piece that I submitted earlier this year (and I have that as a separate entry) was for The Last Supper. The most recent on was for Matthew 6:26-34 about “Worrying”. Here’s a link to the Bible verse, if you are so inclined. I realize that The Bible is not the Go-To source for Regiliousness for all out there… and Lord knows that I don’t want to “offend” anyone… or Do I?
FCC Artwork for June 20, 2010
The second project is that I am planning on being available for-hire for photography shoots. I’m still in the planning phase on this one… as what will my niche be, what will I charge, when will I be available, etc… More on that later…
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June 26, 2010
This weekend, we have visitors staying with us… Pa-Pa and J-Lo. While they are hardly Rockstars to the world out there… to two kids at our house (The Elder and The Younger), they are! They’ve been anticipating their visit for as long as they can remember and it has been sometime since the Dynamic Duo has been to Tennessee, mostly due to responsibilities close to home. But relief came this weekend and so they traveled West to Tennessee.
Pa-Pa is a habitual Coke drinker, just a few degrees behind the level of me as a Diet Coke drinker and he has in the past saved the bottle caps and other codes with MyCokeRewards Points. He was worried that since I hadn’t blogged about them (or anything for that matter) that I wasn’t still collecting them. I have been continuing to collect them, and even redeemed some of the points for the few things in the prize locker that I would actually use.
Now, I do have to give proper thanks to those who have been sending me the points! Glo-Ma, I-Run-For-My-iRoy Susan, Leesa Lens-eye and RedheadedEditor Mizzu Ellen have been sending me points on a regular basis and I thank you all for remembering me and allowing me to get free stuff! It makes Christmas that much nicer!
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June 25, 2010
You could say that I am sort of a Self-help, motivating type of guy… at one time I wanted to be a teacher, soccer coach, dream|life coach, mentor, and so on… you would think that teaching would be one of my passions. And it’s not necessarily the main one, the position of a Teacher, but Teachering is Hard… My sister in law (Amy-In-Law), I don’t know how she does it… she’s a teacher, in a public school system, in rural South Carolina… Holy Standardized Tests Batman!
I think that sharing Wisdom, or enlightening is more accurate of what I would love to do… I am working on my own personal Mission Statement which I can use as a barometer on whether some is good to do or not. My Lovely and Talented Wife has a great one that she uses to determine if something is generating P.O.W.E.R. in her life. I think in some ways, I have been adrift, not exactly sure of what I should be doing or striving for… it seems to change often, but there seems to be a common underlying theme. So, I am peeling off those layers and exposing my core (and for now, that’s all I am exposing… :O )
One of the websites that I have in my RSS Feed Reader is from LifeHack.org which dishes out article about how to improve|adapt your life from the inside out. I saw this article today and it struck my fancy… and since I am committing to blogging again, what a better thing to post.
5 Simple Ways To Spread Positivity by Seth Simonds
- Practice pleasantries
- Share some positivity
- Save the lemon for later
- Slow down your response time
- Learn to laugh with others
I’ve purposely not included the text so that you can click to the article and that way give the author credit for the content, not just me regurgitating the key points and then moving on.
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June 24, 2010
Something strange happened yesterday… okay, something strange happens to me everyday, so maybe this was just a normal occurrence…. who knows. Anyway, I was on The Runner’s Roundtable podcast yesterday on Talkshoe.com as one of the Race Directors of the WORLDWIDE FESTIVAL OF RACES! We are coming up on our 5th running of the event! Holy Schmoly! Hard to believe that it has been that long but time marches on.
So during the intro, Steve Runner (not his “real” name) asked me “So, Terry, what have you been doing running wise” (okay, don’t quote me) and for a split second, I went into another dimension and started to contemplate… “what HAVE I been doing?”
The Short-Short answer is NOT MUCH. The last time that I ran was on June 12, when I went trail running. Since then I haven’t run a mile or even a quarter mile. My last race was early May with the Run for the Deaf 5k where my Spring Racing Season did not turn out as well as I wanted it to. If you believe in the Periodization Theory, that is periods of time are grouped together for a specific goal, I have been in a Rest Period. Probably the longest one of my running career. My first month of basically “not running” was in July 2003 when The Elder was born. I ran once that month, and then came back in August. Usually there is another Rest Period in December/January where there is 3 weeks of little running as I recover from the fall marathon and then ramp up for Calhouns 10miler at the end of January.
So why the big break? Not sure, but I have my theories…
But what Wednesday’s Runner’s Roundtable did was to get a little fire going. I am still planning on running the Flying Monkey Marathon in November, so that means that training would start somewhere around August 1st. But that’s like 5 weeks away… and would result in an approximate 12 week resting period. Good thing you don’t really forget to run… or is that to ride a bike? I just check the calendar and this weekend (June 25th) would be Week 8 of no-racing, no-training. It’s actually kinda Surreal…
But Terry, it’s hotter than the sun out there, what are you thinking? Yes, it is hot out there, maybe not as hot as the sun, or even as hot as in Arizona, but isn’t it the Humidity that really is the clincher?
So yesterday during the Runner’s Roundtable, Steve Runner cornered me and in the deepest, most evil sounding voice… “So… when is the next Gravity@1053′ episode?”, the skies darkened and everything went silent. The next voice I heard was my own subconscious saying, “Dude, you are on Air… internationally, say something with words and try to make it sound good… Lord, please help us…”
Then I remembered that I actually enjoy recording my podcast: Gravity@1053′, what I don’t enjoy is the stretch of time that it takes to get to the computer, edited and all that other podcasting-type stuff. Part of the little fire was, yes, I do like to podcast… and I do have my laptop up and running, so what is stopping me? Basically, just a lack of focus and motivation. Well, make that a significant lack of focus when it comes to the extracurricular stuff in my life, which in turn, lowers my motivation on just about everything.
There’s been a number of factors (as with everyone) which has been contributors. Some of them I have been able to address and not necessarily nullify but at least mitigate it some to where it is manageable. I’ll probably blog about them, which will give me topics to blog about, since blogging has been another casualty of lack of focus… SQUIRREL!
While I don’t have a training program penciled out at this point, there is one in the works. I’ll need a couple of days to work on that to make sure the schedule is manageable for the rest of the summer and the fall. But what I am looking at doing is recording a new episode of Gravity@1053′. And I don’t think that I am going to try to capture the audio exclusively on runs, since that doesn’t always work well for me, but use the Planet3rry Mobile Recording Headquarters instead. I have a smart phone now… it should be smart enough to help me you would think!
My goal is to record the audio and have a show ready for Monday Morning…
Oh, and if you are reading this entry on my blog, you might see that I changed the theme… a new start… a clean pair of underwear… so to speak
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May 4, 2010
I would like to thank all those that played the Guess My Time, Win Crap contest for the Run For the Deaf 5k this past Saturday. I don’t have the “official” results, but it looks like unofficially that David Peach of Missionary Talks fame (@dpeach on twitter) will be the winner of the crap great prizes. And just in time too, because now that he actually has a home for his missionary trip in South America, it might actually be able to reach him. However, it might take a couple of months for something to make it to him, IF it makes it… but the official results are still pending.
Run for the Deaf 5k 05.01.2010
As for the actual race itself, the Run for the Deaf did not disappoint for a great run and venue! The weather held off (i.e. Storms that pounded Middle Tennessee) and it was cool and calm for the run. Now while I still had to stop for just a short bit just before mile 3, I was pretty pleased at my overall run. I am not exactly sure why my 5k runs have been so poor (i.e. I have had to walk in the last 3) physically, but mentally I feel fine. I am curious if it’s a residual effect of the marathon runs in Late 2008 and in 2009, or it’s a flag that something else is wrong. Who knows…
So my unofficial time for the Run for the Deaf was 24:58 (net Terry-Time from Start Line to Finish) but it’s going to be slightly over 25 minutes I know, but my split times were: 7:39, 8:02 and for the last 1.1 which included two short walk breaks was 9:17 for a total of 24:58. I didn’t win any Age Group awards, since I stayed for those, but I did win a DOOR PRIZE! Scored me a CASE of water! I think that makes my Door Prize winning at this race about 50%!
Rittenhouse Half-Marathon 4.24.2010
My Official time for the Rittenhouse Half Marathon was 2:16:28 and I finished 30 0ut 0f 36… and they didn’t have Age Groups, but I finished 23 out of 26 in the Male Finishers. I was on a 2hr finishing pace for the first 4 miles. My downfall came to a Rookie Mistake that I did the day before (Never Eat Anything New the Day Before Race Day). I ate something that wasn’t actually “new” to me, but given my current diet, it was “new” and thus had an adverse reaction. I have been on a Gluten Free Diet for almost 3 years now, and in addition, I have been on a Casein-Reduced diet as well. Reduced basically means that I’ll still eat Chocolate and Sherbet and a few other things that have Casein (Milk Protein) but never anything in high concentration. Well, as a reward for The Elder’s trip for a checkup at the hospital, the reward was a Frosty from Wendy’s. Seeing that the Wendy’s that they would be purchasing said dairy treat at the one just down the block from my office, I said “Get Me One!”
Excited about the cold, casein-rich Frosty, I ate without even thinking of any residual effects for the next day. After all, I have had plenty of Frostys in my lifetime, so what would odd about it now? Nothing, other than the fact that it made my stomach feel like a lead weight around mile 4 and that shortly after mile 10, I was hoping that I would just expel whatever was hating me that day from either end… at this point… I didn’t care. I just wanted to feel better. Nothing ended up happening and around mile 11, I was feeling okay… tired, but okay. I had been taking walk-breaks as needed but I was finding that after Mile 10, my walk breaks were becoming less frequent, even when I running a challenging part of the course. So, I knew that my sluggishness was stomach related and not fatigue related.
In the last mile, there was no one ahead of me, and I had distanced myself from the runner behind me, who just before Mile 12, had caught up with me as I wasn’t sure of the Course and stopped and back-tracked about 0.1 of a mile. I was going to make the best of whatever was left. As part of my normal race strategy, I had the last 0.25 mile or so planned out on where I would start accelerating to the finish. Not exactly sure how “fast” I got in the last 0.15 miles, but it FELT like a sprint. I knew that I wasn’t going to even be close to my goal time for that race (sub 2hr), but it was a RACE and every second counts!
The nice thing about this Half Marathon is that you get a Finisher’s Medal, so I didn’t walk away empty handed (didn’t win a door prize either). Usually only the Mega Halfs (or in this case the Micro Halfs) which can afford the medals will have them, but sometimes the Micro Halfs will have something for the Runners. This was my first time running the course and I really enjoyed the course itself, which is part through the town/city of Harriman and part on the back country roads. When you were on the country roads, the shoulders on the road were ample enough that traffic didn’t seem like it was going to plow into you. Plus, the Rittenhouse race having the support of the Harriman Police, there were plenty of patrol cars on the course. The water stops seems nicely laid out according to difficult parts of the course. There were mile markers, but they were at not uniform places along the course, which for my run that day was probably a good thing so that I wouldn’t be obsessing about my mile times every split.
I would probably run the Rittenhouse Half Marathon again, but with it being in late April, it does have some competition with other events on that particular weekend or being close to a spring Marathon.
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April 30, 2010
It has been a great long time since I have ran 4 races in 4 weeks, but tomorrow, I have another 5k race which will make 4 for 4. Tomorrow I am running at the Run for the Deaf 5k which is a event that supports the Tennessee School for the Deaf. It’s a great race and may be one of the flattest (overall) 5k courses around except that the last ~0.2 mile to the finish is ALL up hill. I didn’t run this race last year, because it’s normally scheduled time, first saturday in May, coincides with the Flying Pig Marathon. I am looking forward to running this one this year. I have had some really good results at this race. The first mile was my fastest official mile split time for a while and I have even WON my age group (and yes, there were more than 1 person competing for it).
This will be last planned race until the July 3rd Fireball 5k Classic, which I may or may not run. This will also be the start of a transition period between Spring Running and Summer Running which I will focus on less distance and more speed and with the opening of the UT pool, I’ll include some brick workouts (run, swim) at lunchtime. Maybe even sneak in a sprint triathlon if I can. Who knows.
Anyway, I’ll entertain Guess My Time, Win Crap guesses if you want to play for the Run for the Deaf 5k…
Guess My Time and Win Crap Rules and Regulations:
- All you have to do is guess my OFFICIAL finishing time for the race. I will provide some numbers below to help you base your calculation. Official Times will be what is recorded by the race officials. If I am not able to get that time, then I will use my watch time.
- You can enter as many times as you want, however, your Guess with the latest timestamp on it will be your official guess.
- Entries with a timestamp later than the advertised race Start Time will not count.
- You can leave a Guess a number of different ways, thanks to today’s technology. You can leave a comment on my blog www.planet3rry.com, leave a comment on my Facebook post of the contest, leave a comment on my Twitter account, either direct message or mention is fine (I recommend using the hash #GMTWC, so it’s easier to find) or you can email me your time as well.
- Winners, if I do not already have your postal address, will have to submit a mailing address for the Winning Crap, but beware… that does open you up to things such as Christmas Cards, Free Trial Sizes of embarrassing items and anything else that I deem to be humorous to me. I think past winners can testify that I am all bark and no bite when it comes to the “embarrassing stuff”.
- In the case of ties, I will award the time with earliest time stamp, going down to the picosecond if I must.
- If by some chance you guess my time exactly, you will win The Craptastic Prize!
So what exactly will I win?
That remains to be determined but it’ll be items that I have lying around. While I am not going to be giving away anything as cool as an iPad or something like that, it will be marginally useful. Primarily it’ll be things that won’t cost me much to ship. The Craptastic Prize will be in the form of a gift card from a store of my choosing with an amount of my choosing. It will be in addition too the regular Guess My Time, Win Crap prizes!
Race History and other race information
Race: Run for the Deaf 5
2009 Results
Number of Finishers: 233
Overall winner: Ron Manis 18:20
My Finish Times
Race Date/My Times/Overall Place/Age Place
May-08-1999 22:29 054|173 6|9
May-11-2002 29:07 100|154 10|10
May-08-2004 22:28 026|121 2|11
May-07-2005 24:01 038|111 1|3
May-03-2008 23:27 052|204 10|14
Course Map – I made one on Gmap-Pedometer
Terry’s Finishing times for 5ks since 2004
Race Date Time
Spring Sprint Apr-3-2004 24:03
Run for the Deaf May-8-2004 22:28
Fireball Classic Jul-3-2004 22:57
Scholar's Run Aug-21-2004 24:57
Run for the Deaf May-7-2005 24:01
Scholar's Run Aug-20-2005 24:36
Reindeer Run Dec-4-2005 23:14
Scholar's Run Aug-19-2006 25:12
Farragut Fall Classic Sep-23-2006 22:08
Spring Sprint Apr-14-2007 23:46
Scholar's Run Aug-18-2007 23:32
Reindeer Run Dec-2-2007 22:33
Spring Sprint Apr-12-2008 24:12
Ribbon Run Apr-19-2008 24:10
Run for the Deaf May-3-2008 23:27
Fireball Classic Jul-3-2008 26:23
Scholar's Run Aug-16-2008 24:58
Ribbon Run Apr-16-2009 24:11
Scholar's Run Aug-18-2009 26:21
Run for the Schools Apr-10-2010 27:12
Run for Autism Apr-17-2010 26:22
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April 20, 2010
I was thinking that I was going to do a Tale of Two Races, but then thought that it would be too difficult to try to bear the poor performance at both races. I thought for sure that I would do better on 4/17/2010 for the Breakthrough Run for Autism. However, that was NOT the case.
My finish time was a 26:22 on a course that I had previous done a 24:12 and 24:11, so why the 2 minute difference? I have a speculation, but more on that later…
At the mile split, I knew I was in trouble because my 8:15ish pace FELT like 7:30 and so when Slower Feels Like Faster that is NOT a good thing. Close to Mile 2, I started to walk, just a short distance, then off to running again. I stopped again just before the 3 mile mark, hidden from the view of the finishline. I took the last 0.25 mile or so to bleed off any energy I might have left, it was a race anyhow! In the last 0.1 of a mile, I picked off 3 runners and the runner with the running stroller who passed me just a few minutes past.
I was not in all that of a happy place when I finished, so I went and got a bottle of water, a banana, got in my vehicle and headed home.
Nobody played the Guess My Time contest game, so I’ll guess that I’ll just contest for the Half marathon on 4/24/2010.
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