April 29th, 2005
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Cam has been encouraging me to participate more in the development of this site so I have been working with him to update the “about Blood Car movie download
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” page. The photos and text were two years old. When you have little kids a lot of changes take place in that time span. This last year has been full of developmental milestones for both the boys. After reading The Well-Trained Mind last spring we decided to home school our boys.
They started school this last fall, Sean in first grade and Caleb in Kindergarten. It has been so rewarding for me and feels like such a privilege to be able to watch them absorb new concepts and ideas like little sponges. They are so eager and enthusiastic about learning. There have definitely been challenging moments throughout the year, but overall it has been my absolute pleasure to participate in their education in such a primary way. The idea of home schooling is somewhat daunting before you begin to investigate what resources and curriculums are available. The Well-Trained Mind suggests a lot of really good curriculum options.
Now that I think about it, it’s about time to start looking ahead to next fall and what curriculum we will choose for Sean for the second grade. At some point I’ll post what we have covered this year and my impressions of the curriculum we chose, as well as what we decide to use for next year.Mother of Tears: The Third Mother dvdrip
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I’m posting this from my new (work) copy of Tiger. Looks cool so far. I just finished installing it so I’ll post more thoughts later.
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Preliminary Training – Stage 6 – Day 2
Today was rough. I wasn’t motivated AT ALL this morning. Stayed up a little too late last night and I’ve just been having a crappy week. My left knee is in a brace already and now my right shin hurts right around an old injury from when I was a kid.
When I was about eight years old I was walking (running?) my dog down the street and a friend was sitting on his bicycle. Being the genius that I was, I thought it might be a good idea to hurdle (or attempt to anyway) the back tire of his bike while running at top speed. Unfortunately, for my shin anyway, I overestimated my leaping ability by a bit and ended up catching my shin on the improvised foot pegs that he’d made. Now, when I say “improvised foot pegs” what I really mean is a bolt that stuck out about 3 or 4 inches on either side of the rear axle. And when I say “caught my shin” I mean that this bolt actually penetrated my shin, cut through the muscle and took a chunk out of the bone. Now, for whatever reason, I never received any medical attention for this wound. Oh sure, my mom or dad put some kind of bandage on it for the 4 or 5 weeks it took for it to heal, but no stitches or anything like that. And now, when I run, it hurts terribly.
Anyway, needless to say, today wasn’t much fun. I kept my spirits up by making up cadences (which I will not repeat here) and ended up finishing pretty strong and in decent spirits despite the pain in my shin. I will say one thing for all of this training. It sure makes time fly. Seems like it wasn’t that long ago that I was just walking my route, but it’s really only been about a month. One down, a little over five to go.
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April 27th, 2005
Preliminary Training – Stage 6 – Day 1
Today was first day that was actually painful somewhere other than my knee. When I jog, I’m at about a 10 minute per mile pace. If I could maintain that pace throughout the Marathon in October, I’d be elated. Hopefully, with nearly six months of training left, I’ll be able to work up to something like that. While finishing is my primary goal, my “stretch goal” is to finish in under 5 hours. For a guy that is currently at least 50 lbs overweight (that’s being generous and accounting for my body type), that seems like a fair, but challenging goal.
I’m starting to get bored with my route, but I can’t really do much different. Maybe I’ll try going the other direction on the trail, but I know that the trail doesn’t go a full 1.5 miles in the other direction so it’ll be interesting. Also, I like the fact that my current route is basically uphill for the first 1.5 miles. Anyway, I’ll see about changing it up a little bit on Friday.
| Description |
10 min jog/5 min walk |
| Distance |
3.1 miles |
| Time |
33 minutes |
April 25th, 2005
Preliminary Training – Stage 5 – Day 3
Yesterday, finished up Stage 5 (5 min jog/5 min walk, x3). Again, it felt a little easier today. I spent most of the jog/walk visualizing the race and other athletic type things I’ve been thinking about trying after the marathon, like the STP April Fools Day hd Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince buy
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After the second walking section, I decided to just jog all the way back home for the last 10 minutes instead of jogging 5 min. and walking 5 min. Somewhat surprisingly, it wasn’t as bad as I’d expected. Tomorrow I start Stage 6 (10 min jog/5 min walk, x2). It’ll be interesting to see how that goes.
| Description |
Jog 5min/Walk 5min (x3) |
| Distance |
3.2 mi |
| Time |
36 min |
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