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Website Highlights: Lifestream and the Archive

Written By: der5er - Sep• 22•08

Two recent additions to the website are the new improved Archive and the LifeStream page.

The Archive page is simple, it’s an archive of all posts and pages here at der5er.  Click on a month or date and it will give you a thumbnail of each post, and clicking it again will take you directly to the post.

The Lifestream page is only slightly more complicated to explain.  I’ve started what’s known as ‘micro blogging,’ a.k.a. Twittering.  Short little posts that don’t warrant a full article on the main feed, but are still either interesting to me, or are just a quick comment that I had about something.  Many times you’ll find updates to the 100 Push ups challenge, quick status of how I did on my run that day, or a comment about how my day is going.  Also, posts on other blogs that I find interesting are shared on this page.

If you haven’t visited the website in a while, get out of your e-mail and come have a look around!

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13.1 Miles! I CAN DO IT!

Written By: der5er - Sep• 22•08

 

McDonald's Half Marathon

McDonald's Half Marathon

I’m incredibly stoked.  Sunday morning I completed the equivalent of a half-marathon, 13.1 miles.  And it only took me 2 hours and 3 minutes.  My average pace was 9 minutes, 24 seconds per mile.  I wasn’t going for a fast pace or anything.  Yesterday was mainly just a proof of concept.  To be able to make that statement in the title up there, “I CAN DO IT!”  And now I can.  

 

The bonus of running it at 9:24/mile is that when I signed up for the Half-Marathon last night, I was able to put in a realistic guess of my finish time.  Unlike signing up for the 8k last year and guessing what my 5 mile time would be, since I hadn’t run anything longer than 3 miles.  I put in something like 1 hour 10 minutes last year and actually finished in 54 minutes.  I could have started with a faster group of runners and possibly finished faster by having the motivation to run faster all around me!  Of course, now I know I can complete the 8k in 45 minutes (that’s a 9 minute mile average, WOW!), because I did that a few weeks ago.  

Yes, I signed up for the Half-Marathon last night.  The race is Saturday, November 15.  All runs from here on out are to prepare me for that day.

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