Week 1 of marathon training sucked. This will be much slower than I expected. I will probably have to do each week twice until I can get somewhere with it. I also need to learn how to run on a treadmill, I hate that shit. Who can actually run on a treadmill?
1. It give you a sense of going faster than you actually are. I can run a 8:30 minute mile on a treadmill for 2 miles, 9:30 pace in real life.
2. I'm so bored! The only thing that keeps the monotony bearable is TV, but then you're reminded of why you hate TV.
3.I'm always either running up against the bar upfront or afraid I'm going to fall off the back. There never is that perfect speed on a treadmill.
4. I run with Vibrams, which was LOUD AS SHIT on a treadmill. There's no way to be discrete about it. Everyone else in the room is going to have to live with incessant loud thud at a quick tempo or melodic bass-y thuds when I slow down.
Now that it's winter, and I haven't been able to avoid Boston, I need to learn how to deal with all this. Fun fun silly willy....
My four mile run was crappy... 4.01 miles in 45 minutes. Shitastic pace! Skip my 5 mile and need to make that up....
I also got a Kindle Fire. I was debating about it, but a couple of my friends got it and loved it and they had an advertisement that quoted Voltaire. The quote is something I also really agree with, so I was a sucker and bought one. This thing, for $199, is amazing! It's the greatest cheap tablet, hands down. No, it's not an iPad killer, because it can't do all the things an iPad can do, but for the price it is rock solid. Everyone was complaining about how it doesn't lock, but Amazon fixed that with 6.2 software patch. I love Amazon Prime, $75/year or free if you have a .edu email. You can stream movies and shows straight from Amazon, it's great. There is only 6GBs of internal storage and no extension slot for more, but seriously you have Amazon Cloud, why would you want an extension slot and have to go buy more SD or microSD cards? Amazon Cloud gives you 5GB of storage for free and if you want more it's only about $1/year for 1GB of storage space. You really can't beat that. Oh, and did I mention that all pre-1923 books are FREE?!?! That's all the Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, Austen, Dickens, Hugo, Bronte you can read for FREE! Guess who's been catching up on his classic literature? I also realize I read faster on the Kindle than in paper form.
There is only cautionary tale about the Kindle Fire. Amazon produced each tablet at a lose of about $20, they are guessing you will buy more than $20 worth of crap on Amazon, which you will. They made it WAY TOO EASY to buy stuff. Everything is done with 1-click, Amazon's version of speedy check out. You're only asked once whether or not you are sure you want to do this and then BAM! shits downloaded, and your credit card just got billed. I can see this, a person that can't step into Barnes & Nobles without buying something, as a potential problem. But I have self-control, so I think I'll be ok. If self control is not a problem, or you have a deep pocket that you want to continuous shell out to Amazon, get the Kindle Fire.
Finally, a good-bye and a wholehearted FUCK YOU to Kim Jung-Il. He's finally dead, and I hope he finds hell more rornry than his existence on earth. There is a special places in hell for dictators like him that starve their own people. Coming from a nation that lost more than 18 to 32 million people in the Great Leap Forward Famine and a family that lost 9 members, I have a special kind of hatred for people like Kim Jung-Il. I hope that his son is smarter than he looks and realize the errors of his father and grandfather's way and stop starving his own people. Maybe some good will come out of this death, because it certainly can't get much worse. My prayers are with the North Korean people and hopefully one day you will be granted the basic needs to sustain life.
1. It give you a sense of going faster than you actually are. I can run a 8:30 minute mile on a treadmill for 2 miles, 9:30 pace in real life.
2. I'm so bored! The only thing that keeps the monotony bearable is TV, but then you're reminded of why you hate TV.
3.I'm always either running up against the bar upfront or afraid I'm going to fall off the back. There never is that perfect speed on a treadmill.
4. I run with Vibrams, which was LOUD AS SHIT on a treadmill. There's no way to be discrete about it. Everyone else in the room is going to have to live with incessant loud thud at a quick tempo or melodic bass-y thuds when I slow down.
Now that it's winter, and I haven't been able to avoid Boston, I need to learn how to deal with all this. Fun fun silly willy....
My four mile run was crappy... 4.01 miles in 45 minutes. Shitastic pace! Skip my 5 mile and need to make that up....
I also got a Kindle Fire. I was debating about it, but a couple of my friends got it and loved it and they had an advertisement that quoted Voltaire. The quote is something I also really agree with, so I was a sucker and bought one. This thing, for $199, is amazing! It's the greatest cheap tablet, hands down. No, it's not an iPad killer, because it can't do all the things an iPad can do, but for the price it is rock solid. Everyone was complaining about how it doesn't lock, but Amazon fixed that with 6.2 software patch. I love Amazon Prime, $75/year or free if you have a .edu email. You can stream movies and shows straight from Amazon, it's great. There is only 6GBs of internal storage and no extension slot for more, but seriously you have Amazon Cloud, why would you want an extension slot and have to go buy more SD or microSD cards? Amazon Cloud gives you 5GB of storage for free and if you want more it's only about $1/year for 1GB of storage space. You really can't beat that. Oh, and did I mention that all pre-1923 books are FREE?!?! That's all the Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, Austen, Dickens, Hugo, Bronte you can read for FREE! Guess who's been catching up on his classic literature? I also realize I read faster on the Kindle than in paper form.
There is only cautionary tale about the Kindle Fire. Amazon produced each tablet at a lose of about $20, they are guessing you will buy more than $20 worth of crap on Amazon, which you will. They made it WAY TOO EASY to buy stuff. Everything is done with 1-click, Amazon's version of speedy check out. You're only asked once whether or not you are sure you want to do this and then BAM! shits downloaded, and your credit card just got billed. I can see this, a person that can't step into Barnes & Nobles without buying something, as a potential problem. But I have self-control, so I think I'll be ok. If self control is not a problem, or you have a deep pocket that you want to continuous shell out to Amazon, get the Kindle Fire.
Finally, a good-bye and a wholehearted FUCK YOU to Kim Jung-Il. He's finally dead, and I hope he finds hell more rornry than his existence on earth. There is a special places in hell for dictators like him that starve their own people. Coming from a nation that lost more than 18 to 32 million people in the Great Leap Forward Famine and a family that lost 9 members, I have a special kind of hatred for people like Kim Jung-Il. I hope that his son is smarter than he looks and realize the errors of his father and grandfather's way and stop starving his own people. Maybe some good will come out of this death, because it certainly can't get much worse. My prayers are with the North Korean people and hopefully one day you will be granted the basic needs to sustain life.
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