Last Run8.6 mi 01:07 /07:44 pace Colder & better for the second leg. Started too fast under 7:00 splits which was sustainable through the first exchange but not indefini... posted 3 hours ago
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One thing I like about the whole 365 concept is it serves as a defacto memory bank for stuff about my own life I’d otherwise forget immediately. My May selections cover some big-for-me stuff, 48 hours in Boston, our road trip up to Ukiah & the old people’s visit to San Francisco.
PS. Full set on flickr.  I realized about halfway through tonight’s (stupid) long run that my total mileage for Saturday and Sunday was going to add up to 26.2 miles exactly. In my mind this numeric phenomenon was accidental but not coincidental. If I hadn’t gotten lost on my route yesterday this awesomeness wouldn’t have happened.
I’m tired of fundraisers. But still I’ll link to my Youth Run4Fun thing.  A quick note of advice for people who might be coming to “warm” “summertime” San Francisco for either HBM or the marathon. Bring a friggin coat. A hat. Some extra layers. Tall wool socks. Pemmican for emergency sustenance. Also snow shoes, cross country skies or a tauntaun. You should definitely listen to the machadaynu remix. A few dozen times. – Swimming Cities of Serenissima – On Sam Raimi – Notwithstanding BPD/Zombie alliance – Published is nice. Read, nicer yet. – U is for Ugnaught – NEW IPHONE IS COMING – Boston T Party this Sunday – Spain’s AVE irks the Basque – Bleeding heart politics – Sotomayor vs Miers vs Alito – relatedly, historical judicial unanimity I’m deleting one social networking tool every week. – Cheese! – Transcience sucks  Schizo spammers can’t even decide if they like a pre-memorial day beer or not. We got these from the same source, same time, same bat-channel… I love the picture. You memorial day is looking pretty awesome. I’m stuck at work. and memorial day is such an amazing holiday that should be celebrated and embraced, not treated as another day off of work. We need to celebrate those brave soliders that fight and die for our freedom. For the record, I’m solidly pro-pre-post-memorial day beers.  My old people are in town visiting, staying for the rest of the week. We’ve been doing tons of stuff and quite frankly they’re wearing me out, running me into the ground. I’m going to need a vacation after their vacation. This week’s marathon training went pretty well, right hamstring tweak excepted. At nine weeks, I’ve officially hit the halfway point of the training cycle. The rest of Team HB (+ assorted other Bylers) ran a half marathon today while I just had my lonely long run in the dark. Around mile 7, I had just about decided no fool in their right mind should be out about in tonight’s bitter cold wind when I saw bunches of people huddled around fourteen different campfires along Ocean Beach, getting an early start on their Memorial Day cookouts. It made me smile.
The Youth Run4Fun fundraiser is still at $135 of $250. I’ll keep the dollar for dollar match for another week.  Today, Lily is turning two. Look back at how tiny she was when she was on her zero-th birthday! Yesterday, I was told she’s started speaking in full sentences, and has the capacity to say anything she wants. I was also told she has become very opinionated in a my way or the highway kind of way, very much like her aunts. And below you can see she’s giving her Amazing Race-tastic middle sister a run for her money in mad stuntwoman skillz. Happiest of birthdays tiny baby niece!
 A proposal has been made that a small group of former lightweights should attempt to erg 1,000,000 meters (collectively) over the next 20 weeks. This was not my idea but it’s an interesting concept (II – ha). For the non-metric, that’s 621 miles, roughly the distance from here to Portland Oregon. Unfortunately for me the timeframe overlaps with the next ten weeks of cartilage destruction as well as attempt #2 at 100 pushups. Any other numeric athletiscisms to pile on? Go for the world record for squat thrusts on an elephant? Making a play for the World Moustache Championship? Counting consecutive hacks prior to self-immolation? So yeah, erging. It’s been a while. I’m not quite sure what to think.  I didn’t run Bay to Breakers this morning. Yesterday’s long run put my physiology in a foul state of sun sickness and I couldn’t physically bring myself to the expo to register. Instead I did something different and special today, a run up through the Presidio and over the bridge to Marin. I had been wanting to do this particular run since CNSMHB were here but have been in an Ocean Beach rut of late. For bonus points, today’s run roughly matches miles 5 through 12 of the marathon course, which I definitely need to spend more time training on. The hill you know over the enemy you don’t, or so they say. Here’s a course video – the relevant bit is from 4:30 onward. In more exciting news, not only will my people be coming to SF for the race, but both SMHB and Marc will be actually running the marathon with me this July. And by ‘with’ I really mean ‘lapping me repeatedly before leaving me dizzy in a dust-tornado’. But still, it’s very exciting.
My Youth Run4Fun fundraiser is still at $135. My goal is $250. While listening to (yet another) NPR fundraiser this morning, I decided I’d re-institute the dollar for dollar match this week, up to the total goal. So if you’ve been lurking and debating donation some nominal amount, this’d be the week.  I got suckered into actual work on Friday so forgot to post this. Ohab bocce smack talk – Burial + Four Tet – tweeting squirble – don’t charge too much for your wife – pot for kids – landing tweets – video of shuttle launch – marraige legality of after-the-fact gender transitions – dualy lines – stream swirls – kobe’s championship cookies – UWLFU – sugar stacks – roomba map – cat burrito – under underdoggie – got 99 problems – awkward armadillo – the power of almonds – mega shar vs giant octopus YES – Danger Mouse’s flying car (in legos)
And by ride I of course mean run. CNSMHB are coming back for the marathon in July! Now just need to push Steven off to the fence to actually run it with me and all will be perfect. I’ve got a long of 15 this Saturday and then another 7 Sunday. Sunday is also Bay to Breakers, a 7.5 mile race across San Francisco (and partly along my normal route) known for nudity, costumes, getting shit-faced at 8am and so on. I’m debating on whether or not to hook up with those folks – it’s $55 to be legit.
Feeling a little down on fundraisers at the moment. Still stuck $115 short of the goal.  lethal dose of coffee – nasty – swine flu self test – mississippi is solid lust – canine, OUT! – Troll 2 doc – The Emeralds have new shirtz – get psyched up for Inglourious Basterds – NY state is catching up with Hondo – Lawrence of Arabia – star wars life tracker – ko to tamo peva, three thumbs up – shhh… – baby niece rock stars – NorCal Waste -> Recology – Burmese throwdown on Clement – Heckuvajobium! – STL’s Church of the Open Tab – Jon Stewart vs Cliff May Echoplanar’s thriller/suspense entry into this year’s 48 Hour Film Competition, Boston. That’s some SPOOKY STUFF right there. Thanks to all cast & crew. I really hope it all went well at the screening tonight. Song is unaware by it hugs back. Watch through to the shark attack scene.  Today I learned that this flower, Ochna integerrima (the ‘golden flower’) is also known as mai in Vietnamese. That was pretty much the best part of the day.
In the context of finding something to do tonight someone sent me an email earlier today about married people sucking. I’m willing to concede this as true for my current purposes. Later in the day, I was playing around with Facebook’s API (inspired by this) and downloaded a bunch of data about my contacts over in XML format, and have been playing with it in SAS’s proc gmap. The map above is the US segregated by where I have friends and what percent of them in each state are married (aka Dead To Me) – if you can’t read the legend green is 25-50%, blue is 50-75% and red is over 75% DTM (black means I’ve got no friends in that state). Overall, a total of 39+% of my friends were classed as DTM. Curiously, males are significantly more likely than females to be DTM (p=0.0077). Those people DTM graduated from college significantly longer ago than the non-DTM individuals (8.9 years vs 5.9 years, p=0.0071). Of those who identify themselves as conservative or liberal (vs other helpful affiliations like ‘ice cream-ism’) there’s no significant difference in the proportion of DTM though this may be explained in part by sample size issues. Ok, enough with the math, off to find a burrito & margarita. Happy Cinco de Mayo!!
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