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Moving through time and overthinking every minute of it.Daddy, Why are the CD’s Giant?
Posted on January 20, 2007
We were working in the basement and I said, “Hay kids, lets listen to some of dad’s old music.”
I have a turntable in my office in the basement. Sophia innocently asked..”Why are the CD’s Giant?” Never seen a record album before. People like to look back at baby boomers and my grandparents – regarding teh stuff they never had. Like color TV or TV at all. We remember when there were the first microwaves, personal computers, vcr’s, and cassette tapes. Yes – in the 4 years in college I went from a typewriter and learning COBOL on a Prime Mainframe to an Apple IIe where I learned BASIC and then an IBM PC where I learned WordStar. But Sophia didn’t even know what she was looking at. The bigger kids had since They have seen DJ’s and my records before. She is 6, time flew by and I hadn’t introduced her to those old songs yet, well those old albums, we have DaveFM here that plays all my old songs (over and over and over). Keep looking folks, it all changes fast.
10K Race Today – Peachtree City 10K by the Atlanta Track Club
Posted on January 20, 2007Thanks ATC for your programs. I ran today’s race far from home – took at least 40 minutes to get there so getting up at 6AM was the only way. Even then after a last minute doo-doo I just got to the starting line!~
Final Official time was a 51:35, I think. I started in the back of the pack and my watch read 51:19 so that sounds about right.
TIME GROUP 1B (50:00 through 54:59)
TIME GROUP 1A (42:00 through 49:59):
So I will be in time group 1B
Splits were in the 8 minute range. First mile was around 9 minutes middle were under 8 and my last was under 8; slowed a bit on hills. Felt great at the 4 mile mark and each of my miles were a bit faster each time. Average went all the way down to 8:15/mile on mile 4 but I lagged a bit at mile 5 and was completely exausted by mile 6. That last .5 mile was the longes 1/2 mile I have experienced in ages. Well, maybe it was longer – the .2 part you know.
Avg was therefore 8.19/mile ( 51.35 = 3095 seconds = 49.92 seconds per tenth)
I actually ran an 8:17 pace by my watch. I have to get to an 8:04 pace to make the next time group.
For my Nike Triax Elite fans – I have to adjust my offset! Here is my calculation based on my spreadsheet
And my pace based on the same spreadsheet (XLS that gives you your pace and helps you change your offset to the correct setting based on that race)
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