Monthly Archives: July 2007

Web Services calls for the programmatically impaired

Someone at work mentioned this morning that a company they knew of has an interesting API strategy for collecting data from 3rd parties. You have heard of REST, and SOAP and xml-rpc…this is DSI. DSI is interesting in that it … Continue reading

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Sick

I woke up today feeling really crappy. I called off work and went back to bed. Blah. Around 11 I went downstairs to check email and had a pretty good craving for a smoke. It’s not like I am going … Continue reading

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Mad dogs and Englishmen

Today sucked. I let myself get really dehydrated, then went out in the afternoon sun and attempted to do 5 miles. By the time I finished 2 I could barely lift my legs, by 2.25 I was gagging and trying … Continue reading

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WWHHD

What would Hal Higdon do? I had my 3.5 miler tonight, and I went over to the *drum roll* barracks to hit the trail. It went fantastic. I felt like running to the end of the trail which would only … Continue reading

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Crappy 4 miler the other day.

Right before I decided to switch to the Half Marathon training program, I went out for a lunch time run with Versache. He was doing 6 miles, and I thought I would tag along and if I felt good do … Continue reading

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Smoking with Sophocles

This morning about an hour after I woke up, I got the most crushing craving I have had in a long time. I was going out the door to get in my car, and it rolled over me like bad … Continue reading

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Ok, starting over on the training…sort of

Here is the deal. For about the last week I have been feeling really strong doing the Higdon 10K plan. Also, a bunch of cow-orkers are doing the Hands-On-House Half Marathon…not to mention, they are also all training for their … Continue reading

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HH10K W4D1

I decided to mix up the week a bit. Tonight I had an offer from a friend to do some biking. I figured that I might as well move cross training to tonight since I had the motive, means and … Continue reading

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Alive with Pleasure

I am almost finished with 21 days smoke free. Where I come from, that’s 3 weeks. It’s strange, I have moments, like right now, where it seems strange that I ever smoked. Then I have moments like I had earlier … Continue reading

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Bumping my MHR

I am going to bump my calculations for my max heart rate a bit. I had been going on the assumption that my MHR was 186 bpm. When I ran Gettysburg my heart rate hit 189 toward the end. So … Continue reading

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