In case you haven’t seen me, I’ve had a miserable week health-wise. Sore throat, major drainage, eyes feel like they’re going to pop out of my head… I have a half marathon scheduled this weekend. Unfortunately, I don’t think I can do it. I’m still attending, and I may pace Erin or Caitlin, but I still have my doubts on that. This reminded me…
Two weekends ago, I hopped in a minivan packed with bikes and people (coworker Brian, lunch friend Molly, and two of their friends, Pam and Patrick), and made my way up to NYC to ride around as part of the Five Boro Bike Tour. The idea is you start in Manhattan and over the course of 42 miles, visit all five boroughs of the…
Just the media needing a story to latch on to. Let’s look at some mortality rates: Avian/Bird Flu (H5N1): 56%SARS: 15%Swine Flu (H1N1): 4.5%Typical Flu Season: 1% (couldn’t find good data so I estimated based on what I did gather AND this number is only for the US, where Swine Flu has a 0% death rate) And that 4.5% will only go down as…
Paid a visit to the family out in Herndon. Kids are hilarious… Katie does this “pretty face” thing that is absolutely atrocious and hilarious. Click for Gallery
Last week I paced Erin to her adult PR. This week, I was feeling good, was able to get in all my training mileage, and decided to give this race a solid effort. It was a hot and somewhat windy day. My goal was 6:00 pace, which equates to an adult PR (18:49 last year). Having run the course pretty easily the week before,…
Been a while since an update… Nothing too noteworthy happening, but I don’t want to leave you all without an update for too long. Immediately following the race (posted below), we dug up our yard, ripped out a half dozen stumps and such, and fill up the front bed with 10 bushes and a few little flower clump things. We didn’t get to relax…