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Author: Kris

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GAH. Self: There’s no point to downloading Best of Bootie 2009 at home if you don’t bother to transfer it to the iPhone.

@imdominating I do have the 2007 and 2008 versions here though. 🙂

@runjohnerun Thanks for that. So your suggested training range is 145-160? or max on easy days is 145?

@ozquokka RUB IT IN, WHY DON’T YOU? 😛

Confession: I just listened to Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face” for the first time. Realised I only know like 4 seconds of it from a TV commercial.

@traceyh It was the best thing I’ve done! I’m much happier now.

@bellsknits @spycoredotnet I didn’t think I knew any, but I recognised a bit. I think not having a radio or MTV helps.

@Warlach You are giving me flashbacks to a Meatloaf-loving high school boyfriend. Just… don’t.

Yay! @knitabulous yarn club package just landed on my desk. Now for the all important unboxing…

Knitabulous yarn package #2: http://twitpic.com/wyx4v

@purple_velvet Yeah… Unfortunately licorice is my NEMESIS. This think looks like concentrated evil.

@codepo8 Niiiice. I need to get me one of those too. Need to join the social media guru herd. 🙂

January 6, 2010
Gay couple adopts 23yo

Gay couple adopts 23-year-old. That made me a little teary. Good on them!

January 6, 2010
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Recalculated my target HR zone for base training. Turns out I really was going too slow! http://bit.ly/54zwMP (cc @IronBrandon @runjohnerun)

@carbolicious I got a kite too, but it’s been so rainy we haven’t been able to fly it.

@rhagern Consider yourself challenged! (I suck at Scrabble, btw.)

@rhagern That was just really, really lucky!

My face is feeling better. Hooray for the miracle of antibiotics!

Let’s play Words With Friends on the iPhone! (It’s Scrabble.) My username is ‘web-goddess’. http://bit.ly/2qbpQ

@Alex_Manchester Glebe Point Diner? That was nice. (Although I liked the Boathouse better, but you said no seafood…)

Tonight: Crispy Black Bean Tacos with Feta and Cabbage Slaw. Recipe: http://bit.ly/CRo9z Photo: http://twitpic.com/wr0eg SOOO GOOOOD.

@Opheli8 Vego AND kosher! Well, wait. Is feta kosher?

@runjohnerun Do you think I should stick with the old numbers based just on Max HR?

Okay, no more Words with Friends games, people! I’m playing SEVEN AT ONCE.

Just completed a 5.81 km run with @runkeeper, check it out http://bit.ly/731ipr #RunKeeper

Just completed a 2.55 km walk with @runkeeper, check it out http://bit.ly/89J8Rr #RunKeeper

@ozgamer No, still in bed. Runkeeper’s Twitter API slays gets backed up these days

@runjohnerun 33yo female. I got a range of different MHRs depending on the formula, but 185 was about the average.

@crumpet I use Tweetdeck on both iPhone and Mac, but it seems divisive. Folks love it or hate it. I love it.

@runjohnerun 5’10. I’m a pretty big girl!

@runjohnerun Doesn’t make much difference to my original zone calc. Do you disagree with factoring in the RHR? Because that adds like 20bpm!

January 5, 2010
Crispy Black Bean Tacos with Feta and Cabbage Slaw

Crispy Black Bean Tacos with Feta and Cabbage Slaw
I was in the mood for feta tonight, so I hit up epicurious on my way home to look for a recipe. I found these interesting-sounding tacos. Harris Farms has canned black beans, so I decided to go for it. They were very quick and easy. I wasn’t quite sure how to interpret the actual cooking stage. My frying pan wasn’t big enough to spread out all four tortillas. So I kind of hung them half over the edge, then folded them in. That worked. (That said, I actually made six instead of the four it said it would make.) They were really zingy and tasty. Oh! And I screwed up and used actual coleslaw rather than cole slaw MIX, but I didn’t realise that til just now. Made no difference; they were still good.

January 5, 2010
Suicide Food

Suicide Food – animals that desire to be eaten. It’s a blog about disturbing food imagery where animals serve up themselves (or other animals). Reminds me of that Seinfeld episode with the discussion about the movie concession ad:

JERRY: I just don’t understand the raisinettes.
ELAINE: The sax player?
JERRY: Yeah.
ELAINE: Yeah.
JERRY: The box of raisinettes runs up to the concession stand, buys another
box of raisinettes.
ELAINE: So?
JERRY: Box of raisinettes eating another box of raisinettes? It’s perverse.
ELAINE: HE’s not gonna eat them. He’s buying ’em for his Pepsi girlfriend.

January 5, 2010
RunningBlog: Heart Rate Training

When I got my heart rate monitor last month, the first thing I wanted to know was what level I should be training at. I used a number of online formulas to work out my Maximum Heart Rate, which turned out to be 185bpm. I knew I was supposed to be working at 70-80% to increase my aerobic fitness, so I aimed for 130-148bpm. This felt uncomfortably slow, but I told myself that I’d get used to it. A chance Twitter comment from Brandon about “zones” got me thinking though. I did some more reading and found out that I really need to be taking my Resting Heart Rate into account. For several days now I’ve been taking my RHR as soon as I wake up in the morning, and it’s averaged out to 65bpm. (Hey, that’s pretty good!) Okay, so 185 minus 65 equals a Working Heart Rate of 120bpm. Multiply THAT by .7-.8 and add back in the RHR, and I get a target aerobic zone of 149-161bpm. That looks better! That should allow me to push a little more without having to walk so much to stay within the zone.

Updated to add: These things are never simple. The great @runjohnerun is not a big fan of this more complicated formula, and he thinks basing it just on my MHR (as I was doing) is better. He’s suggesting I keep my easy days under 145, and my moderate days under 160. That means I’m back to going SLOOOOOW. 🙁

January 5, 2010
Forms in HTML5

New form controls in HTML5. I’m surprised by how many of them are really only useful on the iPhone. (At least right now, anyway.)

January 5, 2010
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Just completed a 5.12 km run with @runkeeper, check it out http://bit.ly/6yKcSi #RunKeeper

My blog is 9 today. I was proud of that til I remembered there are chicks from my high school class who have GRANDKIDS. http://bit.ly/91KnUL

January 4, 2010
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Just completed a 2.55 km walk with RunKeeper

Just completed a 5.81 km run with RunKeeper

January 4, 2010
Happy blog birthday to me!
As of today, web-goddess is now officially nine-years-old. We’re comin’ up on a decade, here! I definitely feel like my blogging took a backseat to other media in 2009. I started using Twitter and Facebook more heavily, and I do a lot of my “wacky link” sharing on Google Reader now. Still, I’m going to keep w-g going as long as I can. It’s amazing to look through the archives and realise that nearly 10 years of my life – exciting years! – are documented here. As usual, I’ve compiled some fun statistics to celebrate. (Previously: 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003.)
- Number of posts: 823 (A 5% decrease from last year’s 868, due to the aforementioned distractions.)
- Number of comments: 1404 (A massive 35% decrease from last year’s 2195. I chalk that up to the fact that most of my commenters how have their own blogs.)
- Comments to post ratio: 1.7 (Continuing the downward trend of the last few years.)
- Posts mentioning the Snook: 161
- Most commented posts: The Anti-Knitting-Graffiti Manifesto (ugh), setting up a FatBet, new w-g redesign (thanks to Matt!), the “No ‘Poo” movement, finally getting my iPhone, and the launch of the 2009 Oscar Contest.
- Top 10 commenters excluding myself: Rachel (138), M-H (71), Bex (46), aim (40), eileen (38), Fiona (37), WeeB (36), red (33), jp (27), and Roceal (26).
- Oscar contest entries: 459, won by Mikey Filmmaker
- Runkeeper total distance run: 650km / 406mi (about 20% less than last year, mostly due to being sick/injured)
- Races run: Mother’s Day Classic, Bay Run 2009, City 2 Surf (fourth in a row!), Rebel Sport Run4Fun, and Sri Chinmoy 7K.
- Finished knitting projects: fourteen, including my “highly-commended” – AGAIN! – Na Craga.
- Cooking successes: Vanilla Creamed Rice with Rhubarb, Spicy Shredded Pork, Lamb and Barley Stew, “Chinky Chonky”, Cookie Monster Cupcakes, Cake Eyeballs, and Mangomisu
- Memorable restaurant feeds: Glebe Point Diner, Knitters’ Tea Party (and again!), Mad Cow, Kam Fook (for Steph and Eva‘s wedding reception), and The Boathouse
- Jobs: just one, thankfully! I am loving being a B.A.
- Websites launched: GetUpGo, Morris and Sons redesign, and Candi – Precious Jewellery
- Trips: knitting retreat in Mt. Keira, Knitters Guild Camp in Kurri Kurri, and Adelaide and the Outback with Eileen and Rodd
- New additions to the family: Mason Anthony Howard, my new nephew
To tell you the truth, 2008 was such a big year for me (running two half-marathons, buying a house, getting laid off and then finding a new job) that 2009 feels a bit smaller in comparison. Looking back, I was sick for most of the winter and spring. I had to cancel my one big race for the year. We both had new jobs, so we didn’t do much travelling. That said, we crossed some pretty big To Do items off our list. We did quite a bit of work on our garden. We paid off the Snook’s student loan, and mine will be gone this year. We’ve got a safety net of savings built up, and we’re paying off our mortgage as quickly as we can. And we finally got wedding rings…

Goals for 2010: Finish paying off my student loan. Run 1000kms in the calendar year. Run the Sydney Half-Marathon in May, and depending on how I do, think about aiming for a spring marathon. Take a vacation to the States to visit family. Go to a BA training course. Learn to sew a skirt for myself. And finally win that damn blue ribbon at the Show. That’s all achievable, right?
January 4, 2010