Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Hell has frozen over
Thanks to repeated beatings^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hencouragement from a friend (*cough*Darren*cough*) I have finally gotten around to posting my story about the Chicago Marathon. Plus, I had a few other blog postings in the queue that I hadn't published, because I was blocking on that post. So please, let's catch up, but I ask that you first read my account of the Chicago Marathon, so that it all makes sense.
Sunday, November 25, 2007
Fastest course in the west!
Well, in light of my lackluster performance at the Chicago Marathon, I decided to investigate other options for running a second marathon. Several CRCers decided to run the Philadelphia Marathon. This was basically out of the cards for me, because I wasn't really up for another cross-country flight (since I was travelling to Pittsburgh.) Fellow PARC runner Marty also wanted to best his Chicago time, so he suckered me in to running the California International Marathon, which is on December 2nd. Good news: it can't possibly be five bajillion degrees outside, and also it's a mostly downhill course. Yesssssssss
Bad news: I haven't done that much training since Chicago. I've done a long run (13 miles, 15 miles, that sort) just about every weekend, and on average about one other run a week. That's very little training. But, I had some foot pain in my left foot that was exactly the same as my right foot pain, so I wanted to give it time to recover. We'll see how this goes.
Bad news: I haven't done that much training since Chicago. I've done a long run (13 miles, 15 miles, that sort) just about every weekend, and on average about one other run a week. That's very little training. But, I had some foot pain in my left foot that was exactly the same as my right foot pain, so I wanted to give it time to recover. We'll see how this goes.
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Visiting Pittsburgh
I visited Pittsburgh for a week. It was great to go back and visit old friends. Plus, Matt R. and I worked out of the Pittsburgh office, on a game we're making for our company's mobile phone platform. The office there is quirky and unique, yet still carries the overall spirit of the company that I have found when visiting Chicago and New York.
Funny note - the building the office is in is located right next to some train tracks. About every three hours or so a train would blow by, and they're so noisy that no work can get done for about three minutes. As soon as the train crossing bell goes off, the office descends into full-scale Nerf war. It is awesome.
The primary/original purpose of going to Pittsburgh was to watch the Steelers/Browns game. When I was visiting Matt R. in New York several months ago, we both logged on to Ticketmaster to try and get a crack at Steelers tickets as they went on-sale. We lucked out and got four tickets to the November 11th game, so Matt invited his friend Val, and I invited my mother (who just had her 50th birthday!) Most of the game the Steelers were behind, and there were four extremely drunk and rowdy Browns fans next to us, which increased the difficulty of watching the game. However the Steelers had an awesome comeback and ended up WINNING the game. Needless to say the Browns fans were pretty quiet for the last part of the game!
I got the chance to catch up with relatives from both sides of the family over dinner at Olive Garden in Monroeville. Lucy, Ken, Fred, Barb, Jesse, Jesse's girlfriend, Dan, Marsha, and Eileen were in attendance.
I got the chance to run with the fine folks of People Who Run Downtown while back in town. I had fun running with Darrin, Ken, Heather, and a cast of characters both on Tuesday night for a fast 6 mile run through the hills just south of Carson Street, and on Saturday morning for a 13 mile, very hilly workout near Bellevue.
WRCT, the campus radio station at Carnegie Mellon University, is in fine condition. The engineering work there recently absolutely blew me away. The news room is fully wired as an air studio now, the old RS-12 production console has been replaced with an additional control surface to the Audio Engine, and various patchery and audio routing had been overhauled, replaced, or cleaned since last I visited. And they finally put a CD burner in the air studio rack, for "taping" your own show. Well done, WRCT!
Yes, visiting Pittsburgh was well worth it. What little time I spent outside of working around the clock at work, was spent in the company of good friends whilst chowing down on good food from memorable Pittsburgh establishments. I look forward to returning again when I can.
Funny note - the building the office is in is located right next to some train tracks. About every three hours or so a train would blow by, and they're so noisy that no work can get done for about three minutes. As soon as the train crossing bell goes off, the office descends into full-scale Nerf war. It is awesome.
The primary/original purpose of going to Pittsburgh was to watch the Steelers/Browns game. When I was visiting Matt R. in New York several months ago, we both logged on to Ticketmaster to try and get a crack at Steelers tickets as they went on-sale. We lucked out and got four tickets to the November 11th game, so Matt invited his friend Val, and I invited my mother (who just had her 50th birthday!) Most of the game the Steelers were behind, and there were four extremely drunk and rowdy Browns fans next to us, which increased the difficulty of watching the game. However the Steelers had an awesome comeback and ended up WINNING the game. Needless to say the Browns fans were pretty quiet for the last part of the game!
I got the chance to catch up with relatives from both sides of the family over dinner at Olive Garden in Monroeville. Lucy, Ken, Fred, Barb, Jesse, Jesse's girlfriend, Dan, Marsha, and Eileen were in attendance.
I got the chance to run with the fine folks of People Who Run Downtown while back in town. I had fun running with Darrin, Ken, Heather, and a cast of characters both on Tuesday night for a fast 6 mile run through the hills just south of Carson Street, and on Saturday morning for a 13 mile, very hilly workout near Bellevue.
WRCT, the campus radio station at Carnegie Mellon University, is in fine condition. The engineering work there recently absolutely blew me away. The news room is fully wired as an air studio now, the old RS-12 production console has been replaced with an additional control surface to the Audio Engine, and various patchery and audio routing had been overhauled, replaced, or cleaned since last I visited. And they finally put a CD burner in the air studio rack, for "taping" your own show. Well done, WRCT!
Yes, visiting Pittsburgh was well worth it. What little time I spent outside of working around the clock at work, was spent in the company of good friends whilst chowing down on good food from memorable Pittsburgh establishments. I look forward to returning again when I can.
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