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One Strep at a time

November 29, 2010 planet3rry 4 comments

Ah snap… our house has been a biological wasteland for what seems about the past 3 weeks. It first started with The Brothers getting some bug from school early in the month. Then they shared it with me, you know, right during Taper Madness for the Flying Monkey Marathon. Luckily for me, with drinking a lot of water (and other potent potables), taking Guaifenesin, popping Vit. C like Smarties… I was able to “control” the bug so that I could run the Marathon.

For the most part, I haven’t had any relapses of the sickness, although I think that running for 5 hours and 41 minutes lowered my immune system down enough so that it has lingered longer than it should have. I think on Sunday morning was the turning point where the sickness has lost the war in my body. Not only did it not hurt to cough and sneeze, but the volume of phlemgh greatly decreased. As of the this post, when I cough it still sounds rough, but I think that is just a scare tactic it uses to sucker me into getting sick again. I’ve taken the whole week off from running since the marathon, so my legs seem to be reset, now if I can purge the rest of this illness out, I’d be a happy camper.

Well, because we have been playing “Pass the Disease to the Left hand side” this month, My Lovely and Talented Wife has come away as the winner (depending on your point of view) since she tested for positive for Strep this past Black Friday. Now that she’s on antibiotics, she should be free and clear soon. However, the plague that infested our household, along with the Thanksgiving holiday has made it nearly impossible to compose the Race Report for the 2010 Flying Monkey Marathon. However, with The Fam on the mend, the report should be forthcoming…

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Pi Eleven

October 17, 2010 planet3rry One comment

I’ve been on the Smart Phone bandwagon for about 6 months now. With the File Sale on Palm WebOS Apps right now, I have finally paid for a few apps that weren’t that expensive to begin with, but at 50%, they are cheaper than a couple of coffee and that’s the Convenient Store price too. Right now, I have the Palm Pixi, yeah… As if I need something else in my life that isn’t very masculine. Don’t worry, I don’t have the pink one.

Right now, I am using an App called ‘Poster for WordPress’ which lets me write blog entries with a decent format, thus making in 1000x easier to write entries. Yeah for me! 

[much much later]
So the update is that I wrote that months ago and just now am editing it again. But that’s okay, according to my sitemeter, this blog was had very few visiters the last few months… Like 1 a week or something like that… One is such a lonely number. I haven’t adjusted for FB and twitter yet and maximize my online presence, but I know that there is a plugin-app for that

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You can dance if you wanna

June 30, 2010 planet3rry No comments

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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Rewards

June 26, 2010 planet3rry One comment

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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Epidemic but not like The Plague

June 25, 2010 planet3rry One comment

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

5 ways to spread positivity

  1. Practice pleasantries
  2. Share some positivity
  3. Save the lemon for later
  4. Slow down your response time
  5. 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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Gravity of the Situation

June 24, 2010 planet3rry 3 comments

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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Butterfinger Crime

April 1, 2010 planet3rry No comments

One of the “Deal” sites that I subscribe to the RSS Feed (The Bargainist), had this deal this morning:

http://www.bargainist.com/deals/2010/04/free-butterfinger-candy-bar-/

Despite being April Fool’s Day, chance for a free candy bar, is something I am all over. So I went to the Nestle page to request my coupon for said Sans Gratis Candy Bar. Along with the marketing ploy to get information entry form, there was a contest to win free crap good stuff:

  • Apple® iPhone™ 3GS**
  • Console Game
  • $300 Electronics gift card
  • 1-year supply of BUTTERFINGER® bars

All you had to do was submit a story (600 characters or less) on how someone laid a finger on your Butterfinger. How could I resist?

Here’s the verbose first version of my story, weighing in at 1163 characters.

Don’t mess with my Butterfinger or you might end up like Johnny 4-Fingers. Now he wasn’t always called “Johnny 4-Fingers”, he was born with all 5 digits on his right hand but his desire for my chocolate delicacy clouded his better judgment.
Having opened my Butterfinger, it wasn’t long before the smells of “peanut-buttery” euphoria filled the room. Johnny, a known chocoholic, thought he would acquire my candy bar.
He schemed a fake emergency in the kitchen. Responding to the commotion, I left my Butterfinger unsecured on the table. In my absence, he made his move. However, when Chocolate is on the line, you don’t mess with me.
In the time for him to reach the table and lay his former finger on MY Butterfinger, I unsheathed my samurai sword and separated Johnny and his finger forever.
While Johnny was screaming in agony and the Ambulance (and police) were in route, I sat down and enjoyed my Butterfinger.
While waiting trial, I am counting on winning the 1-year supply of Butterfingers so my charges can be dropped. The judge is a huge fan of said candy bar. Hopefully Johnny 4-Fingers has learned his lesson, I would hate for him to earn a new nickname.

But with it being slightly over the limit, I had to trim down my story and cut corners where I could to get it under the weight limit.

Don’t touch my Butterfinger or end up like Johnny 4-Fingers. He wasn’t always Johnny 4-Fingers, but his chocoholic nature got the better of him.
After opening my Butterfinger, the smell of peanut-buttery euphoria clouded his judgment and he schemed an emergency outside. Responding to the call, I left my Butterfinger on the table. Sensing tomfoolery, I rushed back inside and with my knife separated Johnny and his finger.
Hopefully Johnny 4-Fingers learned his lesson, hate for him to earn a new nickname. I hear the judge in my case loves Butterfingers, perhaps I could share the winnings.

However, when I submitted the story the first time an error occurred and going back to the form, all my information was GONE. Luckily, I knew that I was going to write this post and had copied and pasted it to my text editor. I entered in my information again and hit submit. Same result, error. I tried a third time and got a different error, but I am not sure if my request for a free Butterfinger OR my story submission made it. Oh well… you get what you pay for… stoopid internets

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Richmond Virginia Area People

March 3, 2010 planet3rry No comments

I have a friend who needs some help… well, you can take that one MANY levels, but he is completing his Ph.D degree at VCU and needs some more “data”.

I told him that I would pass the information around, so see if you Qualify or if you KNOW of someone who might Qualify, please contact him ASAP.
If you are able to respond to him, I’ll buy you a beer or a soda next time I see you! Rumor has it that there is mad cash for those that participate, I dunno though…

Here’s the information:

I am conducting a study examining the effects of resistance exercise on blood vessel function.  I need subjects for this study.  At this point, I only need a few more people with a BMI (body mass index) over 27 (A person who is 5’9″ and weighs 190 would have a BMI of just over 27)  It would require visits on 2 consecutive mornings at our lab in Richmond.
The subjects can not have done any strength training for at least 6 weeks and can’t currently be doing vigorous exercise, such as running or fast cycling.  Also, you would need to be aged between 18 and 39, not smoke and not be on any cardiovascular medications, such as blood pressure medications.  Here’s a link to a BMI Chart.
Please consider volunteering!  Also, please talk with your wife and/or significant other to see if she would consider participating.  Speak with your other friends, too.  Please email me directly with questions. I am home for UNC’s spring break this upcoming week so I could meet with subjects any two consecutive mornings from Monday March 8th until Monday March 13th.
804-357-1973
Gray Lipford, M.S., CSCS
Virginia Commonwealth University
Department of Health and Human Performance
Exercise Physiology Laboratory
3600 West Broad Street
Suite 350
Richmond, VA 23220
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P3 Twitter Updates for 2010-11-17

February 14, 2010 planet3rry No comments
  • and I thought it was because I was gaining popularity… but it turns out my spam-filter was not configured right… #

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