PLANET3RRY

In a break of “This State is Blue, This State is Red”, I have this YouTube video that Roon Posted on his site.

One of my Fave Musicians is in town this weekend. And No, I don’t have Tickets either. I never put them on my wish list so they never magically appeared. Here’s some of my fave lyrics:

Upgrade my system at least twice a day
I’m strictly plug-and-play, I ain’t afraid of Y2K
I’m down with Bill Gates, I call him “Money” for short
I phone him up at home and I make him do my tech support
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And I forgot the next verse
Oh well, I guess it pays to rehearse
The lyric sheet’s so hard to find
What are the words, oh nevermind
Don’t know, don’t know, don’t know, ooh no
Don’t know, don’t know, don’t know…
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It’s Christmas at ground zero
And if the radiation level’s okay
I’ll go out with you and see all the new
Mutations on New Year’s Day
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I’m the pious guy the little Amlettes wanna be like
On my knees day and night scorin’ points for the afterlife
So don’t be vain and don’t be whiny
Or else, my brother, I might have to get medieval on your hiney
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And I was singin’
My my this here Anakin guy
May be Vader someday later
Now he’s just a small fry
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Don’t play that song
That “Achy Breaky” song
The most annoying song I know
And if you play that song
That “Achy Breaky” song
I might blow up my radio, oooh…
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Elmo’s got gun, Elmo’s got a gun.
Big bird’s on the run.
Bernie’s dialin’ 911.
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Don’t change the channel
Don’t touch that dial
We got it all on UHF
Kick off your sneakers
Stick around for a while
We got it all on UHF

And if you are still clueless it’s Weird Al Yankovic. He’s here in Knoxville this weekend at the Tennessee Theatre

There’s the sales that stores put out there to get people off the water and into the stores, the Christmas in July Sales… mainly because there’s not much else to use as a catalyst for sales in between 4th of July (not a big Sales Weekend) and Back to School (which varies from school & state).

So the other day, My Lovely and Talented Wife colored my hair. Well, more specifically she added some highlights to my hair. As I was really bored waiting for the whole process to start, I messed around with my hair and came up with a great Halloween costume. After all, It’s only 104 days (as of the posting of this post) until the Day of Free Candy.

with slightly minor photo-editing, I present a candidate for employment at Wonka this year’s Halloween costume:

Oompa, Loompa, doom-pa-dee-do

I think this is a bug that made it from the Nuclear Lab from Oak Ridge, Tn

This was long time in the making and decided to finish it… As Tagged by dPeach.

How would you describe your running 10 years ago?

I was a brand new runner. I was 3 months into my running career with 8 road races and 1 sprint triathlon under my belt. I was constantly looking up information online on how to run, trying to find races, etc.

What is your best and worst run/race experience?
Best:

My best experience was the 2001 Richmond Marathon where I PRed (at the time) with a 4:09:03. I started off slowly and avoided the early traffic, something I use to this date. By Mile 6, I had my groove on and at Mile 17, I was excited to pass the scene of previous “Walls” for this race. I was still strong at mile 20 and realized that I might be able to PR. At Mile 22, I knew that I was going to PR, it was just a matter of how much.

Worst:

Same Race, one year later. The Richmond Marathon in 2002. By mile 14, I realized that I was going to hit the Wall. At mile 15, I hit the Wall and had to start walking much earlier than previous races (1999, 2000). I was pissed by Mile 17. I was ready to DNF when I would meet my friend Gray at Mile 19. He was going to run with me a few miles. I did a lot of walking from Miles 15-18 and became very angry at myself and just ready to call it a day. I had never wanted to quit a race before, not matter how bad I felt, even my first marathon. This was different, I hit the Wall REALLY early and I was angry. However, when I found Gray, he “forced” me to run with him and I ended up finishing, but it was pretty grueling last 7 miles.

Why do you run?

I run now because I have to, it’s much like an addiction. I have assimilated to running: If I don’t run, I feel bad. It’s part of my core and essence. Plus with just about everything in life, I can associate to my experiences with running.

What is the best or worst piece of advice you’ve been given about running?
Best:
Probably the best advice was to do different types of runs at different paces (tempo, easy, long, speed). Until you incorporate this into your running,  you aren’t going to see progress in your running.

Worst:
I can’t say that I have had bad advice, either that or I have forgotten it. If something sounds decent, I might try it, and if it works great, but if it doesn’t I move on.

Tell us something surprising about yourself that not many people would know.

Bonus surprise:
Oh geez, something surprising? I think that I got most of my surprising and weird things about me covered already. And I am not sure that some people would really be surprised at some of the stuff that I do, I mean, have you read this blog?

Oh, here’s something surprising… I have used Dark and Lovely hair coloring before. (and here’s a surprising question that I found when looking for a link for those that do not know what Dark and Lovely is to begin with)

Rules of the game: I am now supposed to tag 5 more people and get them to answer the questions. I was pretty slack at getting this out, so if you are a runner and you haven’t done this yet, then considered yourself tagged.

Why you need to buy in bulk when you have kids:

Now before you go up in arms and go crazy about the kids being in the plastic container. You know that one with the icon of a kid sitting in the container with a big red circle/slash through it. I can tell you that the top has a few airholes drilled in the op. This way, if the kids want to play insect collector, it’ll be authentic. I am still working on the the wiring for the authentic Bug zapper.

For those who are not part of the Thomas the Tank Engine sub-culture, here’s a clue: Go to Sodor, and find the Fat Controller. One of The Elder’s favorite songs in the Thomas Audio Library is a song called Accidents Happen. Kind of a We’re-All-Gonna-F*(*-Up-Sometimes-So-Get-Over-It-And-Learn-From-It type of song. Closer to Ms. Spear’s Oops, I Did It Again but without the “it again” part.

Now The Elder has been creating elaborate track schemes that usually involve 45 degree drops, hair pins curves at the end, and total drop offs for the trains. Whoever approved these designs had a death wish for theses trains… I suspect sympathizers for the Bus Authority. Apparently, creating these OSHA nightmares isn’t enough anymore… now he has to be part of the fantasy… and he’s influencing warping the mind of The Younger:

hat’s right! It’s time for ANOTHER contest for my upcoming race (Expo 10k). This will be one of those standard Guess My Time, Win Crap contest. Your entry (submitted only as a comment to this post) is your entry to guessing my official (from KTC website) time. I am going to take the time that is closest to my official time (either above or below) as the winner. If there are ties, the person who submitted their time first will get the Grand prize, the other people will win conciliation crap prizes. Winners who want their crap prizes must submit their mailing address to me on my quest to conquer the world send so that I can mail their crap prize (unless I already have it).

Since there is a delay in posting the results to the KTC website and I don’t think that I have a single reader in Knoxville who will be there on race day, you can post until sometime on Saturday (05-24-2008) when I will close the comments. So… if you can comment, you can guess.

And if you aren’t technically gifted to leave a comment, I might be gracious enough to accept a guess via the comment link at the top or a phone call (if you know my 1-900 #).

What kind of crap Prize will I win?

Does it really matter? Seriously… it doesn’t matter. Since you are twisting my virtual arm. It’s a bag. It’s green… Sling Backpack. I’ll post a picture of it, so you can bask in it’s awesomeness before you make your wager.

So what kind of time should I submit?

Well, a 10k is 6.2 miles. This is a new layout to this race for me, so I am not exactly sure the course will suit me, but I am running in Knoxville, my home turf. I can tell you right now that I doubt I will finish faster that 50:00 minutes and I won’t be slower than 1:00:00 (one hour). So there… figure the time out and comment below.

Historical 10k Data:

Rat Race Oct-7-2000 48:06
Expo May-26-2001 51:11
Run on the Bayou Mar-3-2002 50:03
Expo May-24-2003 52:01
Expo May-29-2004 51:53
Expo May-28-2005 50:02
Expo May-27-2006 55:21

if you need some more variables for your detailed calculus equation, you can check out my Buckeye Outdoor website that tracks my training:

Congratulations to I Run For My Life: Susan from Arkansas, she was the Winner-Winner from the weekend.

She had the winning guess for my Ribbon Run 5k on Saturday and then was a mere 3 seconds off from my Trideltathon time.

Susan wins the Official Planet3rry Sticky Pad as well as a special prize (yet to be determined) for winning both.

I had thought for sure that I would have beaten the guesses this weekend… but no such luck. Next Guess My Time contest will be for the Run for the Deaf 5k to be run on May 3rd.