Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Arachnophobes Beware!

Absolutely amazing footage of a cluster of daddy long legs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWASwBWyUXI

Monday, July 19, 2010

Catching up

Finally getting back to logging my training runs. 

I managed to finish up this season's XTerra trail races having only missed one event, the Crystal Cove race in Newport Beach.  It had been sold out since last November, but due to all of the weather delays there were several people who dropped out.  Unfortunately, I didn't find this out until after the race.  Anyway, I did well at Malibu Creek and Mission Gorge, earning a point total of 521 out of a possible 700.  That was only enough to get me a 2nd place in my age group, even though I earned more points than any other runner in 2nd place, and more than 19 of the other 1st place runners.  I'll just have to try again another year.

July 4th turned out to be a great day for me.  Having skipped running 10K road events for nearly two years, I finally made another attempt at my goal of a 6:00/mi pace.  It was an unseasonably cool day, with lots of fog.  The course was right next to the beach, and was just about as flat as a well groomed college track.  The race went great, even though I started out a lot hotter than I meant to.  I worked hard to keep my pace under control for the rest of the race, and managed to finish in 36:18, or a 5:50/mi pace.