Running is therapy

My calf is pain free. I think I am going to hit an easy 2 tomorrow morning. Stop rolling your eyes! I almost made it till Sunday :)

…I love it. And I don’t hate the bike, I loathe it.

40 minutes on the bike on Monday night, and then another 30 this morning. I was going to do 40 again, but my butt was sore and I wanted to get ready for work. Friday night I am going to go to the gym and use the bike there.

The week is flying by, but not fast enough, can’t wait to test the calf on Sunday.

I am going to take it easy for the next two weeks.

I have posted my new schedule so the 3 people on the planet that care can take a look.

Next week is all on the bike. I am hoping that the bike doesn’t totally kill my calf and that I can use it as much as I would like. The following week I am following some advice from Bill and running some super low mileage.

I might add a 1 mile day to next week, but only if I am running pain free. Now, wtf is my advil.

The results are posted from the Turkey Hill Classic 10K. They have me 10 seconds slower than I had myself. My official PR will be 52:12.

I know it sounds like bad sportsmanship to complain about a new personal record. But the truth is that it’s only a personal record because this was my first 10K. And 52:12 is a bad time. I am in better shape than that, I just need to refocus my efforts on staying injury free and get back out there.

I ran twice last week, and both times made my calf worse. Before I really do something stupid and tear the muscle, I am going to take a full week off. I went for a long walk yesterday and even that hurt.

I am going to go to the gym a few times this week and see if the bike hurts me. Bleh. I want to go running.

I installed the latest release of OpenSolaris 2008.05 today. I was lucky enough to have gotten a hold of a w1100z Sun Workstation donated by a buddy.

The install didn’t go as smooth as I would have hoped. Initially the clock was not set properly after having been turned off for an extended period. As a result the desktop would never load. I was able to kill the x session, and in gdm switch to failsafe-gnome, and set the clock. I completed the installation, but when I rebooted I was dropped at a grub prompt, and not the grub menu. I decided to run through the install one more time to make sure I hadn’t missed something. When I booted the live cd this time, with the clock not out of sync, it took me right to the gnome session, and I completed the install. Upon this second reboot, grub came up as expected.

Overall I was a little disappointed. I am happy to have the hardware, and now a functioning OS, but this was Sun hardware (albeit E.O.L. hardware). This should have just worked.

At any rate, there are lots of exciting things going on with OpenSolaris, and I recommend you take a look.

On Sunday, when I woke up after the race on Saturday, my calf was destroyed. It has hurt pretty consistently since then. It has finally started to ease up tonight, and I am going to try to run tomorrow. Nothing crazy, nice and slow, maybe a 5′er.

On another note. I have been a little preoccupied lately with thinking about speed. And also realizing that speed in general is sucking the fun out of running. As a result, I am recommitting myself to running more, but longer and more often, not faster. Speed will come as it always does, running more is what is important.

This morning I got up early and traveled to Lancaster to run the Turky Hill Country Classic 10K.

I got there about 20 minutes before the start. I ran up to the registration table, grabbed my bag and pinned my number to my chest and glanced into the bag. For some odd reason, there was no t-shirt, in it’s place was a long narrow green towel which was a billboard for all the sponsors. In addition to a tiny towel, I got two coupons and a cow key chain…

The race was well put together, and the volunteers were great.

Personally I turned in a sub-par performance. I was shooting for 8 minute miles across the board. I started off OK, and was around 8 for the first 3 miles. The 4th mile turned out to be a lot tougher than I had bargained for. By the time I recovered during the 5th mile I had borrowed some energy from the endurance bank and was paying back the interest.

I have to say, this is the first race since I started racing last year where I was disappointed in my performance. Usually I have felt pretty good about things after a hard fought race. Not this time.

1 Mile Splits: 7:58, 8:05, 8:09, 9:19, 8:47, 8:17 (and the last .19 in 1:25)

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Some stats:
Distance: 6.19 Miles
Time: 52:01 (pace: 8:23)
Average Heart Rate: 176
Calories Burned: 883

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I have been pretty open about my editor use over the last few months. I switched to emacs a while ago, then was trying Open Komodo, etc.

Then I became a consultant. It was cool at first, I have computer mojo, I am into this stuff, I decided to keep messing with my tools. I was spending a lot of time getting Open Komodo, or Gedit to a usable state. Once in a while I was popping back into emacs to see if I could make a go of things.

Then it happened. I realized, oh crap, I really am a consultant, and they really are only going to pay me for N hours on this, I actually have to get this done.

And like a little boy running for his mothers arms, I folded like a lawn chair. Hello tabbed terminal with 4 instances of vim going. For the last several weeks I have been using vim, and vim alone. I really do hope this is temporary, because I think there are things that other editors offer that I’d like to take advantage of. And I like to push myself into new things and ways of thinking. I hope that I have a long and satisfying life with many editors.