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About Next Weekend

March 21, 2009 planet3rry 2 comments

Today’s run was a practice run of the last 6.5 miles of the Knoxville Marathon in which I am going to be (WAIT, let me go check… 7 Days Out and STILL 4:45 pacer) the pacer for the 4:45 finish group. It has been 3 years since I ran the race and while I usually run on many parts of the Marathon course, I still wanted the practice. Kinda like a Dress-Rehearsal… except, no pace group, no course monitors, no water stations, no crowd support, no course support and bringing DARKNESS and ChAOs… no volunteers.

It felt great, I ran the entire way, non-stop and with ease. I need to see what my pace was, but it was in the 9-10min range. I’ll have 2-3 more runs in this quasi-Taper before the marathon. I did decide on a few things…

  1. I am going to record the entire marathon: I’ll use it for an episode of Gravity@1053 and I will use it as my first episode for my, yet untitled, ASD Athletes podcast.
  2. I will twitter during the marathon, maybe 3 or 4 times depending on how I can manage it. I am incredibly new at Twitter even though it’s been around forever (in techonology years)… We have a twitter set up for ASD Athletes, so I will use that one. @ASDAthletes
  3. I am going to call the phoneline for The Extra Mile podcast and send in a recording while running of my Knoxville Marathon experience. If you are a podcaster and you would like me to call in and leave a comment for you use on your podcast. Please let me know what the number is and I will “put it on the list”. Use the Contact Me in the Top Menu Bar.

Also in the upcoming week, look for the GUESS MY TIME, WIN CRAP contest for the Knoxville Marathon. I will have to change the rules a little (and I can, because I am the supreme universe ruler of the GUESS MY TIME, WIN CRAP contests) since my time SHOULD be 4:45:00 as a result of my Volunteer Position of being a Pacer. I am thinking that we are going to have some sort of “target” or “percent” type contest. I have to think about. I also have to find some crap to give away too… more on that in a day or two.

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Saint of the Day

March 17, 2009 planet3rry 5 comments

Let me tell you… things have been busy for me. In fact, write now, I am writing this remotely from the Planet3rry Global Headquarters when I should be home by now. Computer work for a friend…

So, I have a lot to catch everyone up on… all 15 readers! One of the big things is that I ran something around a 19 miler on Sunday with decent results. I have YET the time to map out the course, much less add my workout to my Buckeye Outdoor account. Which, for March shows me as doing NOTHING… but that’s only because I haven’t had the time lately because my 40hr Job has been busy. Not to bore you… although I am already getting sleepy over it… is that the Stimulus Package that President Obama sent out has gotten OFCCP – a Federal Agency to do some more monitoring of the federal funds in construction projects (bored, yet?). Guess who sends them a list of projects for them to inspect in their area each month? You guessed it… ME! And guess who name is on the print out report? Yup… Moi! And who has been fielding calls from the San Fran and NYC office this week? Uh-huh! And guess how much I can help them? Little to none! It’s a contractual issue that may be resolved this week or at least in the step in the right direction. Oh, I talked to long about my 40hr Job AHHHHH COOOOOTIES!!!!

So, if you follow me on Facebook (because I don’t do the twitter thingie… although ASD Athletes is there… so technically, I guess I am with a degree or two from twitter) you’ll see that one of my recent status updates is that I ran today (Tuesday) roughly 6 miles and recorded a little bit of audio for Gravity@1053′ (my podcast). Just a 10 month hiatus… and if work will slow down enough, I am changing the format to a more “record and DUMP” format. It’s a Unformatted, Unscripted and slightly edited format. I am thinking about doing an ASD Athletes podcast… or rather My Lovely and Talented Wife suggested it and since I like podcasting, I thought, maybe that’ll get me in the groove… because if you can do one… you can kinda do two with not much difficulty.

I am sure there are other things that I should blog about… but I gotta get home.

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Snowflake and antibiotics

March 3, 2009 planet3rry 2 comments

It’s been a smash-bam time here at Planet3rry Central. Yes Sir!

Things were SO exciting that I misplaced a 16 miler around here. Anyone seen it? I know that it’s here somewhere. Here in Knoxville our weather’s forecast was a loud and vicious bark! But the bite… eh, not so much.

With rainy weather schedule for a weekend of DOOM and GLOOM (kinda the anti-thesis of SHOCK and AWE) topped with a sprinkling of some white stuff, made the people around here a little panicky. All you people who had a blanket of snow placed over your residence… or even Science Teacher Basl who had a TREE blanket her house. We here in Knoxville… had nuthin’. Well, I guess that wouldn’t be true. THe higher elevation had stuff that stuck and one of my coworkers who lives at a higher elevation greater than 1053′ had some snow that didn’t melt away… could have been because it was blustery outside that anything exposed became a popsicle. No, we had about 7 minutes of glory… and I ain’t talking about that game that you played in middle or high school… no… this was 7 minutes of a winter wonderland (as long as you were looking up toward the sky).

The snow on Sunday was a false alarm. But My Lovely and Talented Wife’s prediction of “This can’t be good”, as she rubbed her throat where a soreness crept in like a prowler in the night. It was straight out of a clinical textbook. Bacteria gets in, throws party and the place smells like a fraternity party the next morning when stale cheap beer becomes the predominant aroma infultraiting the area.

Sure enough, Sunday morning rolls around and My Lovely and Talented Wife does not roll out of bed. Down for the count for two days. Only now, Monday evening armed with a Z-pack did she make her way toward the Valley of the Living. She’s already gained quite a bit of ground… showered… eating food other than soup… life is getting better.

Thankfully, she is the only one that is ill at the present moment. You never know with those kids… one day they are running around like a maniac… next day they are screaming and crying like a maniac because their nose is running and their throat hurts…

Got some pretty big news to announce for ASD Athletes tomorrow at the earliest, but it will probably be tomorrow. Well, I can let some of the stuff out of the bag… well there wasn’t a bag and it’s all on the website. One… we have a Facebook page! That’s Right! ASD Athletes is on Facebook... and those of you TAGGED in pictures probably already know! Second… ASD Athletes is now on Twitter. Now, don’t get all excited, because we had to register my phone… and I, being a parent who texts, text like a parent with a mobile phone… very rsjklmnotuvwjklxy… but at least I am a cool enough parent to be able to text (no offense to those parents who don’t text… that jab was really focused at one individual, but not to name names or anything… but that old geezer knows who I am referring to… I can hear him now… “Back in MY DAYS, we had to mine and process the tin from the ground to make our tin-can-string-phone… and we LIKED it!”.) OKay… enough talk about my step-dad… OOOPS!

So, now ASD Athletes is on Twitter (It’s okay Pete, you don’t need to know what that is… ), just another little piece of technology to keep up with one of the COOLEST nonprofits out there!

[Ed. Note: I thought this had posted MONDAY night... I just found out (Tuesday Night at 7:30. GRRRRR]

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