Geeked Out
I got home from work this evening to find this waiting in my Inbox:
Dear Runner:
The 2005 TC 10 Mile had more than 6,000 lottery entries for its field of 4,500 runners, and unfortunately your entry was not selected. Due to the popularity of “The Shortcut to the Capitol”, the Twin Cities Marathon (TCM) will offer 100 additional TC 10 race entries to benefit its selected 2005 Community Partners: Assistive Technology of Minnesota, Bolder Options, Team USA Minnesota, and the TCM scholarship program.
To download a Late Entry Fundraiser form for the TC 10 Mile and to learn more about the 2005 Community Partners, please visit the TCM website at www.twincitiesmarathon.org. The web site also has more information about our 5K run and hundreds of volunteer opportunities available.
Thank you!
Poo on you, TCM! Figures… I had about a 75% chance of making it in and I don’t make the cut. My friend did and Carol did as well. Oh well. I can play the cheerleader for once and support her while she’s out there. Hopefully, she’ll still want to do it even if I can’t be on the course with her.
So, to burn off some steam I did my own “long run” this evening. Yeah, I know I’m supposed to be on a recovery week. But I needed to unwind after work, I’m behind in my running, and I wanted to vent some frustration on not making the TC10. After reading Sascha and Flatman’s blogs and seeing their geeked out graphs from their Forerunners, I decided to take mine along with me today to be geeky too.
The output from the Forerunner software:
Which I then exported into an XML log to upload into MotionBased.com. From there, I used the “Keyhole 3D Map” option and exported the data to be loaded into Google Earth. That gave me the following satellite photo of my run:
What the hell! I’ll throw in my Polar data for the geek trifecta!
In summary, I did 12.2 miles at 8:37 pace and with my heart rate at 140?! I know that’s nothing to you runners, but that’s got to be some kind of personal best for me. I’m sure that it seriously helped that it was only in the high 60s today. That’s right… after weeks of weather and reports from the National Weather Service to stay inside where it’s air conditioned, we get this day where the high barely hits 70. :P The weather here is so manic.
OK, this post is entirely too long already. Thanks for all your comments to my last post. I really do appreciate all your guys’/gals’ concern! And it’s nice knowing that there are others out there who have gone through the same kind of funk. I was in a really crappy mood at work today. I sort of have been in a crappy mood there for the past couple weeks. :( I still might take vacation for a few days this week. And after today’s run, I probably could stand to take the next couple of days easy and/or just finish with a complete recovery week from here out. Something tells me I’m going to be sore tomorrow. :)