Here is a cool time lapse of Obama's speech from last week, I think it it is pretty sweet!
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Saturday, August 30, 2008
A change, but why?
No I'm not talking about my new blog appearance...but not too shabby, eh? I am talking about soda. Pop. Coke, well more specific diet coke since I haven's had a non diet coke in a few years. 2 weeks ago I decided to axe diet cokes from my diet. No real reason. It was a little expensive, especially when not on sale. People talk about an athletic advantage if you don't drink soda. I don't know if I buy it. It's not a caffeine thing, since I still enjoy coffee when ever I have the mojo to make it. I don't know, I suppose I just got tired of it! I guess I'm weird or something.
Back to that athletic advantage I mentioned, obviously a big thing in my life. But when you hear people tell you "you shouldn't drink soda because of the carbonation" or "because of the caffeine". I have read that carbonation may lead to a little GI distress, but what ever I'm over that. I figure a little GI distress will just help me run faster....so I can get to a porta potty sooner! This article pretty much sums up everything from carbonation to caffeine to regular sports drinks and cites lots of research on the whole issue.
Maybe my subconscious reason is to wean myself off of it and then drink some on race day (September 6th, Camp Yuba Olympic Triathlon) and hope for a boost? I don't know, but I did like one of the suggestions from that article of mixing Coke 1/2 and 1/2 with a sports drink. That way I get the carbs, the sodium, and the electrolites. I might give it a try this weekend on my longer run! We'll see!!!
Back to that athletic advantage I mentioned, obviously a big thing in my life. But when you hear people tell you "you shouldn't drink soda because of the carbonation" or "because of the caffeine". I have read that carbonation may lead to a little GI distress, but what ever I'm over that. I figure a little GI distress will just help me run faster....so I can get to a porta potty sooner! This article pretty much sums up everything from carbonation to caffeine to regular sports drinks and cites lots of research on the whole issue.
Maybe my subconscious reason is to wean myself off of it and then drink some on race day (September 6th, Camp Yuba Olympic Triathlon) and hope for a boost? I don't know, but I did like one of the suggestions from that article of mixing Coke 1/2 and 1/2 with a sports drink. That way I get the carbs, the sodium, and the electrolites. I might give it a try this weekend on my longer run! We'll see!!!
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
And so it begins!
We got home from a camping trip today and managed to dump all of our stuff in the middle of the living room floor. Ordinarily the clutter will stay there for a few days, but this time something different happened. We had a return of THE MOUSE! Bridget and I had it trapped, then it escaped, then we cornered it again...only to have it escape again and run down to the basement! We chased it and cornered it again, and finally caught it in a tupperware. I took the mouse for a drive and released it by a ditch more than a mile away from our house. Anyway, after all of the excitement our entire house looked like a prison cell that had just been ransacked by guards looking for shanks or drugs or something!
So we started the purging process. I listed 3 items for sale on Craigslist and on KSL.com. I know 3 items doesn't seem like much but it is a start. I put up my beer making kit, our bread machine, and a kid carrier frame backpack. Eclectic grouping of stuff, no? Hopefully we'll have some luck selling our stuff, and we'll have a lot more stuff to put up. I might just become the kingpin of Craigslist and KSL!
So we started the purging process. I listed 3 items for sale on Craigslist and on KSL.com. I know 3 items doesn't seem like much but it is a start. I put up my beer making kit, our bread machine, and a kid carrier frame backpack. Eclectic grouping of stuff, no? Hopefully we'll have some luck selling our stuff, and we'll have a lot more stuff to put up. I might just become the kingpin of Craigslist and KSL!
Sunday, August 24, 2008
The big 3-0-0
Well I went out and killed myself today in 90 degree heat, and for what....?.....so I could reach that 300 miles ran milestone! I needed 6 miles to do it, and I didn't get out nearly as early as I wanted to. By the time I made it outside it was nearly 11:30 AM, which pretty much makes it too hot to run here in the desert. But I'm young, and I'm dumb so I went anyway. I started the run listening to one of my favorite Foo Fighters albums (Dave Grohl (lead singer for the Foo Fighters) has seriously one of the best rock and roll screams of all times)(yes, I did use parentheses inside of parentheses)...anyway, all was good until the batter died on my mp3 player. Yeah, pretty sweet. I was only about 2 or 3 miles in. So I finished the rest of the run with just me and the cars and the exhaust. And oh yeah the wind, I hate the wind.
In other news the final triathlon of the summer somehow got moved up 1 weekend from the time that I registered for it. It was supposed to be on the 12th of September, now it is on the 6th. That's good news and bad news, good news in that I'll be able to stop running for this year all that much sooner...the bad news is I have 1 week less to prepare. I don't know how much preperation I need, but the more the better. Although when it is done, I am planning on taking a running break until March 2009 or so. Lots of swimming and biking for me this winter! Hopefully a long hiatus will fix the plantar faciitis that still bothers me every day. I'll keep my fingers crossed.
In other news the final triathlon of the summer somehow got moved up 1 weekend from the time that I registered for it. It was supposed to be on the 12th of September, now it is on the 6th. That's good news and bad news, good news in that I'll be able to stop running for this year all that much sooner...the bad news is I have 1 week less to prepare. I don't know how much preperation I need, but the more the better. Although when it is done, I am planning on taking a running break until March 2009 or so. Lots of swimming and biking for me this winter! Hopefully a long hiatus will fix the plantar faciitis that still bothers me every day. I'll keep my fingers crossed.
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