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Month: June 2011

  • Photo Post

    I plan on wearing the medal for at least a week.

    I plan on wearing the medal for at least a week.

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    I just unlocked the “Marathon” badge on @foursquare! http://4sq.com/kk71qJ

    We are starting to worry that we might actually get flooded in up here. If this keeps up, we might not be able to get back to Sydney!

    @drkknits Not right now. I can barely stand. My poor legs…

    This town has ONE gas station, and it’s not open past 6 on a Sunday night. Rural Australia makes rural Indiana look like New York City.

    @drkknits I did have a rain poncho, thankfully. Best $1.50 I ever spent! Still got soaked though.

    Wondering how @knitness has been going with the cats…

  • Marathon Kris

    I did it.

     

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    Making a tour of Snook family homestead. Nice morning! Wish tomorrow would be like this… http://twitpic.com/59rqh8

    Snookums saw something nasty in the woodshed. http://twitpic.com/59rsc5 And I fed some chickens! http://twitpic.com/59rslq

    @stufromoz That quote is a litmus test. You have just proven definitively that you are Our Sort of People. 🙂

    Devonshire tea in a country town. Life is good. (@ Riverbank Cafe) http://4sq.com/jI4ULU

    Checked in at Smoky Cape Retreat. Clean, warm, dry, hydrating…

    Picked up my race gear. This may well be the lowest bib number I ever have! http://twitpic.com/59wad8

    @heritageuvmj7 I report spammers.

    Pouring rain. Snook is consoling me that “every bit that falls today is a bit that won’t fall tomorrow”!

    @knitabulous Forecast is for 10-20mm rain. It’s pouring now. Waiting on pizza guy to deliver spag bol. Early bed, I promise!

    5am. I am super ready, even got some sleep. Rain has been pouring all night. (Might screw up GPS updating.) So if you don’t hear from me…

    Thank you so much to everybody who is cheering me on. I love you guys, and I’m gonna do my best to make you proud today.

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    Making good time! Stopped for lunch. Sun still shining… for now. (@ Red Eye Cafe) http://4sq.com/mTS8Mq

    @Opheli8 Mid North Coast. My marathon is Sunday in South West Rocks.

    Thanks @knitness! And thanks for playing cat-mommy this week too. 🙂

    Clouds are sweeping in. #anxious http://twitpic.com/59dp24

    We outran the clouds & made it to Eungai. No rain yet but COLD! Manly cardy-wearing Snook is starting a fire. http://twitpic.com/59g3rj

    @kunaal84 Aww, I’m gone one day and you’re descending into anarchy!

    @ozgamer I Facebooked it too. You can LIKE it there. 🙂

    @knitabulous THOSE ARE FRIGGIN’ AWESOME. What sort are they??

    Freezing. Damn fire isn’t raising temp fast enough! And no MythTV means *gasp* watching live TV with ads. We’re like cavemen. With wifi.

    @knitabulous It’s a DIY TiVo. Open source media PC thing. We never watch live TV anymore. Ads! Need my fast forward!!

    Found a feather doona in the MIL’s closet. Score! Feet finally getting warm.

    @redambition @knitness It takes a village to raise a socially awkward cat! (Rodd: Everybody loves him tho, cause he makes them work for it.)

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    Fact: You cannot hear the opening trumpet fanfare from TMGB’s “Dr. Worm” without bopping your head and grinning like an idiot.

    @toastman Not. Feeding. The. Troll.

    Woohoo! All my work is done, and I’m shutting down the work computer for a week’s holiday. I’M OFF!

    No #webblastSYD for us tonight! Beer is a temptation I do not need two days before the race. 🙂

    @venks79 Awww, thanks! How was web blast??

    I officially have six hours & twenty minutes of playlist queued up…. so I guess I better finish the damn marathon in less than that, huh?

    Thank you for all the well wishes… but I’ve still got 2 days before the race! So SUSTAIN that positive energy thru to Sunday, please! 🙂

  • RunningBlog: Week 23

    I’m putting up this post a day early as tomorrow we’ll be on the road to the Mid North Coast. That’s right – it’s all come down to this. I took it very easy this week for my taper. Sunday the Snook and I went for a 7 mile run (as mandated on my Galloway plan). I tried to run it as an actual rehearsal for the first quarter of the marathon, using my goal pace and intervals. It went pretty well. Tuesday I went out for a very easy 5K at lunchtime with my friend Raj. He and I went out again today for an even shorter run. And that’s it! No Spudds, nothing else. Just resting up, hydrating, and getting good sleep.

    May 5: 11.02km
    May 7: 5.05km
    May 9: 4.28km
    Total this week: 20.35km (12.7mi)
    Total in 2011: 582.88km (364.3mi)

    To meet my NEW goal of running 1200km in 2011, I should be at 530.8km. So I’ve still got a nice 50km cushion. I’m definitely going to eat into that in the coming weeks as I rest up… from the MARATHON I’M RUNNING ON SUNDAY.

    I’m ready. I’m as ready as I’m ever going to be. Check Facebook and Twitter Sunday morning; I’ll set Runkeeper up to tweet the link to follow me. As long as my 3G holds out, the run should update live as I go. LET’S DO THIS.

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  • The Cook, the Thief, his Wife, and the Human Centipede

    This MetaFilter thread on the Human Centipede sequel (yes, really) is the funniest thing I’ve read in a long time. Rather than the expected discussion about censorship and film violence, it just descends into jokes as everybody posts random film titles with “human centipede” replacing one of the words. Needless to say, some of it’s pretty gross so you shouldn’t read it if you’re easily offended. I, on the other hand, was literally CRYING WITH LAUGHTER when I read this one.

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    Video caption on the @smh_news homepage is wrong. Lip dub is from Grand Rapids, Michigan – not “Rapid Falls.” Watch your own videos, SMH!

    @VenessaHunt Also, the facts that the Internet exists and the Yellow Pages SUCK will kill Yellow Pages spend. Stupid deadtree doorstops.

    @VenessaHunt Nope, don

    @VenessaHunt Nope, don’t watch it. Yellow Pages are just a pet peeve. They’re stupid.

    I need suggestions for my marathon playlist for Sunday. What’s a song that fires you up? Something that will give me a lift after 20 miles..

    @randomknits That was the first one I put on the list. 🙂

    @Opheli8 ARGGHGHGHGH. I can’t get cucumbers to grow in my goddamn garden, and they can grow them in OUTER SPACE? I give up.

    @emmainsydney Ooh, I hadn’t heard of it. Will send to my runner buddies at work.

    RT @henrytapia: @web_goddess 20 miles, sweet lord! I recommend 100 Miles and Runnin’ by NWA. // Well, 26.2 to be exact.

    Thanks to everyone for the great music suggestions. Please keep them coming!

    @creativemercury Hm. I’ll take both and adjust depending on my mood on the day, I guess!

    @VenessaHunt hahahahahahah…. Yes. That is what phone books are for. 🙂

    @thisismywww Nah, I do alternating run/walk so that doesn’t work. Just need motivating anthems, really.

    @kunaal84 That wasn’t Geoffington, was it? 🙂