The Life and Times of the Watters Family

Marathon Training - Week 6 - Day 4

Marathon Training - Week 6 - Day 2?

Marathon Training - Week 5 - Day 4

I missed the Day 3 run on Friday due to work…again.

Marathon Training - Week 5 - Day 2

I missed the Day 1 run yesterday due to work. Wasn’t going to miss today’s 5 miler, though.

Happy Anniversary

Today is the 7th anniversary of my marriage to my beautiful wife Betsy. Happy anniversary, babe!

Marathon Training - Week 4 - Day 4

Taking the week off seemed to work out well. I finished today with less pain than after the 7 mile run, and I felt like I still had some gas in the tank when I finished. Next week is 10 miles. We’ll see how that goes.

Marathon Training - Week 4 - Day 3

Ran without the Forerunner again. I think I run faster with it.

Marathon Training - Week 4 - Day 2

Marathon Training - Week 4 - Day 1

Felt good to get out there again. Tomorrow will be a little more fun, as I shoot for 5 miles. Yay!

Marathon Training - Week 4

Ok, a quick update. Week 4 of my training should’ve started on July 5th. However, I was traveling out of town all week and it cramped my ability to keep up with my training as well as I would’ve liked. I did run about 5 miles one of the days that I was out of town, but I skipped both the 3 mile runs and I still haven’t run the 8 mile, which I was supposed to run on Sunday. It’s tough to run 8 miles when you’re traveling from 5:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Needless to say, I’m a little behind.

Fortunately, I had an extra week difference between when I started training and what the schedule called for. I had intended to double up Week 5 and just do it twice, but I think what I’ll actually end up doing is stretching Week 4 out over two weeks. This’ll hopefully do two things. First, it’ll give my knee a shot at getting better before I try to attempt 8 miles. Also, it’ll keep me from over-exerting myself trying to just overcome the gaps I left in my training. I think this’ll be good, because I don’t want to injure myself and not be able to finish my training. Anyway, watch for the real Week 4 to start tomorrow (Tuseday, July 12th).

Marathon Training - Week 3 - Day 4

I forgot to charge my Forerunner before today’s run, so I simply ran for a little over 70 minutes and figured that was close enough as I pretty consistently average around a 10 minute mile. I also ran with my brother-in-law and our pace over the distances that I knew for sure were way ahead of that pace. My knee is killing me.

Marathon Training - Week 3 - Days 2 & 3

I’m still fighting the Iliotibial Band problems, hence the crappy performance on Wednesday. I tried to rest and stretch Thursday and Friday, and ran a little later in the day on Friday. I was a little slow, and had some pain, but it was manageable. I’m going to try running with a brace on Sunday. This morning, I couldn’t even move without my knee hurting terribly. I think I aggravate it at night by turning over in my sleep and torquing it in funny ways. Maybe I should sleep with a brace on.

Google Doesn’t Love Me Anymore

Heh. As recently as a week a go, a search for “Cameron Watters” (without quotes) returned this site as the top result and according to the Google toolbar I had a PageRank of four. Now I have a page rank of zero and I’ve been relegated to page four of the results. I guess I don’t care THAT much, but it seems to be stupid that every comment I’ve ever left on any site with more juice is considered a more relevant result for a search of my name. Eight of the top ten results are references to my person, typically my signature on comments that I’ve left on other sites or mailing list archives.

Too bad there’s no way to find out what happened (at least not that I could find). Seems odd though, that my rank would go from 4 to 0 in a matter of one crawl. Oh well.

Baseball 2005