I ran my first 5k about a year and a half ago. Since then I’ve continued to train and gotten quite ambitious. Today I ran my first half marathon. My goal was to finish in under 2 hours which obviously means anything under 2:00:00. For example, 1:59:59 would be fine.
I paced myself the whole race, wound up a minute or two ahead of pace a few times, but in the end had my worst fears realized… see finish time below:
Argh…
Alas, the world is not over. I’m disappointed but also pleased that I beat more people than beat me, and fired up to tackle another half in the near future to try again.
For quite sometime he’s been a mainstay on the homepage of his kennel, the Sausalito Pet Hotel. But now he’s taking his fame to a whole new level. He’s a calendar boy! Check out Booger as one of the feature stars (and definitely the best looking) for May in the 2010 Sausalito Pet Hotel calendar:
It’s time that of the year again, playoffs today and the Super Bowl just around the corner. Last year I had a lot of fun Google Image Searching the quarterbacks for the top 4 NFL teams to help you decide who you should root for in the upcoming big games (because we all know you aren’t rooting based on talent or actual team preference, right?).
Let’s take a look and see who our choices are this year… (I’d say we got an upgrade over last year).
Some people think their musical taste is superior to others because they like bands and artists before everyone else and before they become popular (and then when said artists become popular said person either stops liking said artist or can’t stop talking about how said person liked said artist before everyone else knew about said artist). I, however, think my musical taste is superior to others because it’s diverse.
On my iPod (er… iPhone) you’ll find country from Carrie Underwood, Garth Brooks, Keith Urban to Little Big Town and The Dixie Chicks. You’ll find electronic and dance music from DJ’s like Kaskade, Armand van Helden, Daft Punk, Girl Talk and Louis La Roche, and from groups and duos like Freemasons, La Roux, Hot Chip, Miike Snow, Cut Copy, Chromeo and Discovery. You’ll find plenty of embarrassing stuff like Celine Dion, Jessica Simpson, the Weather Girls, Rod Stewart and Salt-N-Pepa. Of course I’ve got classics covered from Michael Jackson, The Beatles, U2, Jefferson Airplane, R.E.M., Tears for Fears and Stevie Wonder. Of course mainstream gotta-have’s like Dave Matthews Bands, The Killers, Kayne West, John Mayer and Kelly Clarkson, and then maybe a handful of never-heard-of’s… Anna Vissi, Apache Beat, Le Loup, Party Ben, Takka Takka and Glasser.
Really my library probably isn’t even that diverse if you think about it. I have a little bit of classical and a little bit of international stuff (in other languages), but I’m sure there are folks out there that could claim much more diverse (where don’t I play? folk, bluegrass, gospel, jazz, to name a few). I guess my point is more that music is completely personal. People that act like music snobs (like wine snobs) drive me nuts.
List five bands and artists that make your library unique…
Introducing a new weekly blog post. Pretty simple… the gift of song from me to you to celebrate hump day. I can’t promise I’ll always post the real video, sometimes they’re not available and sometimes I might just find something better.
Carrie Underwood to appear on Sesame Street as a special character known as “Carrie Underworm.” (I would have preferred Carrie Underpants!) 18 hours ago
Some people think their musical taste is superior to others because they like bands and artists before everyone else and before they become popular (and then when said artists become popular said person either stops liking said artist or can’t stop talking about how said person liked said artist before everyone else knew about said artist). I, however, think my musical taste is superior to others because it’s diverse.
