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Mon Nov 2
Well, I had a great race yesterday.  Beat my previous best time by 16 minutes and beat my last year’s time by 26 minutes, running this year in 3:16:39.
And the best thing was I felt great for the whole race, only getting a little tired around mile 22 and slowing a bit through the end few miles. 
I ran with my friend/teammate Anna for the first 13 miles which was great and made it the fastest (mentally) half marathon I’ve done.  It felt like 5 miles.   After 13 I pulled away from her a bit and held strong through mile 18 where people usually hit the wall.  I felt great and actually speed up to just around a 6:55/mile pace but knew I’d only have a mile or two before all the previous miles, and all the gatorade I’d been drinking, would start to catch up to me. 
By mile 21 I was still feeling good, but started to get tired around mile 22.  My stomach was acting up and I just wanted to walk.  I managed to avoid it and keep running and just ticked off the last few miles slowing a bit overall.  I saw a few of my teammates on the sidelines cheering, and heard my name a lot but I was off in another world and just wanted to keep one foot in front of the other, and I made it.
In the past, I’ve felt terrible around mile 21 and each year I wonder why on earth I do this and tell myself that this year will be the last time!  But this year was different and I was much better trained.  I didn’t feel bad at all and in the final miles I was already looking forward to my next race:  The Knickerbocker 60k Ultramarathon.  I guess I’ll do that.  I’ve got two weeks to recover from NYC, then I’ll run 37 miles.  Ouch.
Also, I looked up the famous people who ran the race, and I beat all of them that I could find:  Ed Norton (3:48:01), Alanis Morissette (4:28:45) Anthony Edwards — “Goose” from Top Gun and Dr. Green on ER (4:08:20) Jerusalem mayor Nit Barkat (4:42:46) Matthew Reeve —superman’s son (4:23:36) and ultramarathon man Dean Karnazes (3:25:44).  Take that!

Well, I had a great race yesterday.  Beat my previous best time by 16 minutes and beat my last year’s time by 26 minutes, running this year in 3:16:39.

And the best thing was I felt great for the whole race, only getting a little tired around mile 22 and slowing a bit through the end few miles. 

I ran with my friend/teammate Anna for the first 13 miles which was great and made it the fastest (mentally) half marathon I’ve done.  It felt like 5 miles.   After 13 I pulled away from her a bit and held strong through mile 18 where people usually hit the wall.  I felt great and actually speed up to just around a 6:55/mile pace but knew I’d only have a mile or two before all the previous miles, and all the gatorade I’d been drinking, would start to catch up to me. 

By mile 21 I was still feeling good, but started to get tired around mile 22.  My stomach was acting up and I just wanted to walk.  I managed to avoid it and keep running and just ticked off the last few miles slowing a bit overall.  I saw a few of my teammates on the sidelines cheering, and heard my name a lot but I was off in another world and just wanted to keep one foot in front of the other, and I made it.

In the past, I’ve felt terrible around mile 21 and each year I wonder why on earth I do this and tell myself that this year will be the last time!  But this year was different and I was much better trained.  I didn’t feel bad at all and in the final miles I was already looking forward to my next race:  The Knickerbocker 60k Ultramarathon.  I guess I’ll do that.  I’ve got two weeks to recover from NYC, then I’ll run 37 miles.  Ouch.

Also, I looked up the famous people who ran the race, and I beat all of them that I could find:  Ed Norton (3:48:01), Alanis Morissette (4:28:45) Anthony Edwards — “Goose” from Top Gun and Dr. Green on ER (4:08:20) Jerusalem mayor Nit Barkat (4:42:46) Matthew Reeve —superman’s son (4:23:36) and ultramarathon man Dean Karnazes (3:25:44).  Take that!

Fri Oct 30
Dates should be formated as MM/DD/YY except for the years 1990 through 1992, which should be denoted in ‘Hammer Time.’ Gwen passed this on to me, so she gets credit
Wed Oct 28
This Sunday is the NYC marathon.  I’m very excited  :-)

This Sunday is the NYC marathon.  I’m very excited  :-)

Tue Oct 27
Someone in my neighboorhood named their kid Atreyu —the kid from The Never Ending Story.  
How weird. I bet Gus feels lame.
—in other news, I just read they are remaking The Never Ending Story.  It’s slated for 2012. 

Someone in my neighboorhood named their kid Atreyu —the kid from The Never Ending Story. 

How weird.
I bet Gus feels lame.

—in other news, I just read they are remaking The Never Ending Story.  It’s slated for 2012. 

Fri Oct 23
For my birthday, Gwen got (among a few other things) tickets to the live recording of the NPR radio show Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me.  It’s a favorite of ours and we’ve both been weekly listeners for years at home or more recently on the podcast. 
Usually recorded in Chicago, Wait, Wait is touring and last night was the debut in Carnegie Hall.  It was my second time at Carnegie, but first time as an audience member (last time I was singing, in the mid ’90s, believe it or not).
Anyway, this time was WAY better.  The show, which is an hour long, was actually closer to 3 hours of recording time, so they will really cut things down a lot.  It was hilarious and I can’t wait to see how it turns out this weekend when it airs. 
This week they had Mo Rocca, Paula Poundstone and Adam Felber as the panelists.  Of course Peter Segal and Carl Kastle where the hosts.  Brian Williams was the celebrity guest and he was hilarious!  Who knew?!
Awesome birthday present

For my birthday, Gwen got (among a few other things) tickets to the live recording of the NPR radio show Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me.  It’s a favorite of ours and we’ve both been weekly listeners for years at home or more recently on the podcast. 

Usually recorded in Chicago, Wait, Wait is touring and last night was the debut in Carnegie Hall.  It was my second time at Carnegie, but first time as an audience member (last time I was singing, in the mid ’90s, believe it or not).

Anyway, this time was WAY better.  The show, which is an hour long, was actually closer to 3 hours of recording time, so they will really cut things down a lot. 
It was hilarious and I can’t wait to see how it turns out this weekend when it airs. 

This week they had Mo Rocca, Paula Poundstone and Adam Felber as the panelists.  Of course Peter Segal and Carl Kastle where the hosts.  Brian Williams was the celebrity guest and he was hilarious!  Who knew?!

Awesome birthday present

Thu Oct 8
I’ve been told my shorts are pretty, er short… but hey, they’re comfortble to run in!  I made the mistake of wearing this outfit out of my office for an evening run recently.  People are not letting me live it down.  It’s funny how “normal” they seem when surrounded by others wearing the same or less.  Surrounded by people in work clothes… not so normal.

I’ve been told my shorts are pretty, er short… but hey, they’re comfortble to run in!  I made the mistake of wearing this outfit out of my office for an evening run recently.  People are not letting me live it down.  It’s funny how “normal” they seem when surrounded by others wearing the same or less.  Surrounded by people in work clothes… not so normal.

Thu Sep 10
I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it. Mark Twain
Fri Sep 4
Gwen sent me this.  It gets good around a minute or so, crazy bike handling skills!

Gwen sent me this.  It gets good around a minute or so, crazy bike handling skills!

Sat Aug 29
Yep. Floating magic at Brooklyn industries.

Yep. Floating magic at Brooklyn industries.

Fri Aug 21

Thoughts I bet you've also thought

 I can’t believe how many of these things have hatched in my own head numerous times.  Amazing

THOUGHTS FROM PEOPLE OUR AGE

-I wish Google Maps had an “Avoid Ghetto” routing option.

-More often than not, when someone is telling me a story all I can think

about is that I can’t wait for them to finish so that I can tell my own

story that’s not only better, but also more directly involves me.

-Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize

you’re wrong.

-I don’t understand the purpose of the line, “I don’t need to drink to

have fun.” Great, no one does. But why start a fire with flint and

sticks when they’ve invented the lighter?

-Have you ever been walking down the street and realized that you’re

going in the complete opposite direction of where you are supposed to be

going? But instead of just turning a 180 and walking back in the

direction from which you came, you have to first do something like check

your watch or phone or make a grand arm gesture and mutter to yourself

to ensure that no one in the surrounding area thinks you’re crazy by

randomly switching directions on the sidewalk.

-That’s enough, Nickelback.

-I totally take back all those times I didn’t want to nap when I was

younger.

-Is it just me, or are 80% of the people in the “people you may know”

feature on Facebook people that I do know, but I deliberately choose not

to be friends with?

-Do you remember when you were a kid, playing Nintendo and it wouldn’t

work? You take the cartridge out, blow in it and that would magically

fix the problem. Every kid in America did that, but how did we all know

how to fix the problem? There was no internet or message boards or

FAQ’s. We just figured it out. Today’s kids are soft.

-There is a great need for sarcasm font.

-Sometimes, I’ll watch a movie that I watched when I was younger and

suddenly realize I had no idea what the f was going on when I first saw

it.

-I think everyone has a movie that they love so much, it actually

becomes stressful to watch it with other people. I’ll end up wasting 90

minutes shiftily glancing around to confirm that everyone’s laughing at

the right parts, then making sure I laugh just a little bit harder (and

a millisecond earlier) to prove that I’m still the only one who really,

really gets it.

-How the hell are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?

-I would rather try to carry 10 plastic grocery bags in each hand than

take 2 trips to bring my groceries in.

- I think part of a best friend’s job should be to immediately clear

your computer history if you die.

-The only time I look forward to a red light is when I’m trying to

finish a text.

- A recent study has shown that playing beer pong contributes to the

spread of mono and the flu. Yeah, if you suck at it.

- Was learning cursive really necessary?

- Lol has gone from meaning, “laugh out loud” to “I have nothing else to

say”.

- I have a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and

hunger.

- Answering the same letter three times or more in a row on a Scantron

test is absolutely petrifying.

- My brother’s Municipal League baseball team is named the Stepdads.

Seeing as none of the guys on the team are actual stepdads, I inquired

about the name. He explained, “Cuz we beat you, and you hate us.”

Classy, bro.

- Whenever someone says “I’m not book smart, but I’m street smart”, all

I hear is “I’m not real smart, but I’m imaginary smart”.

- How many times is it appropriate to say “What?” before you just nod

and smile because you still didn’t hear what they said?

- I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars teams up

to prevent a dick from cutting in at the front. Stay strong, brothers!

- Every time I have to spell a word over the phone using ‘as in’

examples, I will undoubtedly draw a blank and sound like a complete

idiot. Today I had to spell my boss’s last name to an attorney and said

“Yes that’s G as in…(10 second lapse)..ummm…Goonies”

-What would happen if I hired two private investigators to follow each

other?

- While driving yesterday I saw a banana peel in the road and

instinctively swerved to avoid it…thanks Mario Kart.

- MapQuest really needs to start their directions on #5. Pretty sure I

know how to get out of my neighborhood.

- Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the

person died.

- I find it hard to believe there are actually people who get in the

shower first and THEN turn on the water.

-Shirts get dirty. Underwear gets dirty. Pants? Pants never get dirty,

and you can wear them forever.

- I would like to officially coin the phrase ‘catching the swine flu’ to

be used as a way to make fun of a friend for hooking up with an

overweight woman. Example: “Dave caught the swine flu last night.”

-I can’t remember the last time I wasn’t at least kind of tired.

- Bad decisions make good stories

-Whenever I’m Facebook stalking someone and I find out that their

profile is public I feel like a kid on Christmas morning who just got

the Red Ryder BB gun that I always wanted. 546 pictures? Don’t mind if I

do!

- Is it just me or do high school girls get sluttier & sluttier every

year?

-If Carmen San Diego and Waldo ever got together, their offspring would

probably just be completely invisible.

-Why is it that during an ice-breaker, when the whole room has to go

around and say their name and where they are from, I get so incredibly

nervous? Like I know my name, I know where I’m from, this shouldn’t be a

problem….

-You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work

when you’ve made up your mind that you just aren’t doing anything

productive for the rest of the day.

-Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after DVDs? I don’t want

to have to restart my collection.

-There’s no worse feeling than that millisecond you’re sure you are

going to die after leaning your chair back a little too far.

-I’m always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if

I want to save any changes to my ten page research paper that I swear I

did not make any changes to.

- “Do not machine wash or tumble dry” means I will never wash this ever.

-I hate being the one with the remote in a room full of people watching

TV. There’s so much pressure. ‘I love this show, but will they judge me

if I keep it on? I bet everyone is wishing we weren’t watching this.

It’s only a matter of time before they all get up and leave the room.

Will we still be friends after this?’

-I hate when I just miss a call by the last ring (Hello? Hello?

Dammit!), but when I immediately call back, it rings nine times and goes

to voicemail. What’d you do after I didn’t answer? Drop the phone and

run away?

- I hate leaving my house confident and looking good and then not seeing

anyone of importance the entire day. What a waste.

-When I meet a new girl, I’m terrified of mentioning something she

hasn’t already told me but that I have learned from some light internet

stalking.

-I like all of the music in my iTunes, except when it’s on shuffle, then

I like about one in every fifteen songs in my iTunes.

-Why is a school zone 20 mph? That seems like the optimal cruising speed

for pedophiles…

- As a driver I hate pedestrians, and as a pedestrian I hate drivers,

but no matter what the mode of transportation, I always hate cyclists.

-Sometimes I’ll look down at my watch 3 consecutive times and still not

know what time it is.

-It should probably be called Unplanned Parenthood.

-I keep some people’s phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to

answer when they call.

-Even if I knew your social security number, I wouldn’t know what do to

with it.

-Even under ideal conditions people have trouble locating their car keys

in a pocket, hitting the G-spot, and Pinning the Tail on the Donkey -

but I’d bet my ass everyone can find and push the Snooze button from 3

feet away, in about 1.7 seconds, eyes closed, first time every time…

-My 4-year old son asked me in the car the other day “Dad what would

happen if you ran over a ninja?” How the hell do I respond to that?

-It really pisses me off when I want to read a story on CNN.com and the

link takes me to a video instead of text.

-I wonder if cops ever get pissed off at the fact that everyone they

drive behind obeys the speed limit.

-I think the freezer deserves a light as well.

-I disagree with Kay Jewelers. I would bet on any given Friday or

Saturday night more kisses begin with Miller Lites than Kay.

-The other night I ordered takeout, and when I looked in the bag, saw

they had included four sets of plastic silverware. In other words,

someone at the restaurant packed my order, took a second to think about

it, and then estimated that there must be at least four people eating to

require such a large amount of food. Too bad I was eating by myself.

There’s nothing like being made to feel like a fat bastard before