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Just after I blew away my PR at Hartford, I developed a strange ankle injury. This injury was difficult to treat, and I probably stayed off of it a little too long. I had run a total of 43 miles from Oct 15th to November 30th, with about half of that in the last week of November. I noticed that my ankle felt better the more that I used it, so I jumped right back into my training plan, and ran

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Three weeks ago, I had a breakthrough in terms of fueling strategy for my last 20+ mile long run before Hartford and managed to run well when it was 76deg and humid. I documented everything, and followed that strategy today. I don't think it could have worked out any better.At the starting corral, I found my friend Kevin (who also wanted to run a 2:5x), and we decided to run together from the

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Because of a last minute change in hotel, we weren't staying on the beach, so we had to drive in through traffic. We had about 8 minutes left before the start after I parked, so, no warm up. Yesterday I had already resolved to doing this race at a slower pace than last time, if it were raining or really humid. I switched shoes last minute as well, since it was raining before the race had

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New PR in 1:19:27! My previous PR of 1:22:26 was Iron Horse on June 5th. Interestingly enough, I ran both courses at almost exactly the same avg heart rate (186 vs 187 for today). An improvement of 14 seconds per mile over the last 4 months of training means that the Hartford Marathon is looking really good this year :)Strategically, I ran the race well. As the race started, I settled into

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I made it! I'm so happy to not have injured myself further by completing it too. I started out with my usual plan, and with all of the runners around me, I got no relief from the sun. Absolutely no air flowing in a way that would cool me off. I quickly started running at 190bpm for 7:00 pace. When my hamstring started talking to me around mile 10, I started to evaluate what I really wanted

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I went into this race with a lofty goal, thinking that I may finally go under 37 min, but the course was a lot more difficult than I remembered. The last time that I ran this race, I was 20 pounds heavier, and just barely ran a sub 8:00 pace. I was excited that the race officials considered me "Elite", because I was predicting a 6:00 pace finish. They let me start up front. Saw Bill B. and

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Today, I logged into my blogger account and found that when I tried to view my own blog, all I would get was a white screen after the blog had finished loading. I use Google Chrome as my default browser. I then tried to open up my blog in Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari. There were no problems viewing with IE or Firefox, although there were a good number of js errors and warnings.Both

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When my wife and I started making plans to run the Disney Marathon in May 2009, I had projected lofty goals for myself: 3:10 BQ at Hartford 2009, 3:00-3:05 at Disney 2010, and whatever I could gut out for Boston 2010. When weather, inexperience, and the possibility that I wasn't ready for a 3:10 at Hartford all ganged up on me, I was forced to change my plans. I didn't BQ at Hartford (3:21:06)

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After my second Hartford Marathon attempt (2007), I concluded that my main problem with running long distance was my heart rate and perceived effort. It didn't take all that much to get my heart rate up to 200, and because of all of the hard running I had done the year before, it didn't seem like I was running hard.I decided that I would attempt to train my aerobic base for at least an entire

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Early this year, after hearing my stories and my regrets of my 2001 marathon attempt, my fiancee Deb (now wife) kept encouraging me to run the marathon again. After some haggling, we decided to challenge each other. I would run the marathon, if she ran the half. I dug up my old training program from 2001 and modified it quite a bit to fit my current fitness level (which was not even close to

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Sometime in the early spring of 2001, my friend Greg and I were on one of our lunch time runs, when we decided that we were going to train for the Hartford Marathon. We looked up some training programs, and finally decided to follow what is now Hal Higdon's Advanced II program.After following it precisely for about 8 weeks, we were commenting to anyone that asked that we felt like 'supermen',

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I have updated the Hero and Villain Card Builder to fix a couple issues:Fixed a problem with loading Jpeg file with profilesFixed a bug that would crop the last letter of the Super/Villain Group name on the front of the card.

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On July 8th, Deb and I got married, and the only problem I had leading up to it was with MemorySuppliers.com. I wanted to get something unique and useful for my groomsmen, and what I came up with were some custom engraved metal usb thumb drives. I did not know where to get anything like this, Googled it, and came up with torrent of suppliers. I weeded out the ones that didn't have customization,

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The Hero and Villain Card Builder that I've been working on for the past 6 months or so is finally ready for beta testing. Please let me know if you have any issues with it.Here's the link: http://www.flashxsfx.com/coh/cardmaker/You can use the submit to gallery button if you want to have your card displayed in the gallery. To save your card for future editing, you can download the zip file. This

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Over the past couple months, I have been working on updating my Optic Rapture web site. I've mainly just been converting it from php to C#, and updating graphics. That part was pretty straightforward. For new content, I thought it would be nice to consume my Atalasoft blog, and this blog into one central location. .NET 2.0 didn't seem to make it all that easy to consume rss feeds, so I went out

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This was the sound I heard as I plugged in my old Athlon 900 machine. My head was right next to the power supply when this happened, so I got a great view of the spark inside, and the smoke afterward. Of course I removed the power cable as soon as I saw it happen, just in case anything else might happen to the other components.It was a Future Power Win-400PS... AMD recommended even. The

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Heh, no... but you wouldn't really be able to tell by the way I smelled when I got home late Saturday night.Deb and I had just finished having a great evening at the Big E, and on the way home we decided to stop by her favorite bar to see some of her friends. We walk in, and I got carded, which isn't bad for being 27. I make a pit stop at the rest room, come out and look around for everyone. I

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On Sunday night, just before I was about to work on my website, there were a few nice thunderstorms in the area. I decided it was a good idea to shut down and unplug my computer. Ugh, who would have thought that it could ruin your evening?When the thunderstorms were over, I decided to get back to work... plugged the pc back in, and hit the power button. The BIOS screen then informs me that the

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