I wanted to do something tonight because I had planned for something for weeks that fell through at the last minute. So, coming back from Ultimate Frisbee, I asked Glenn whether he wanted to break our previous record of 58 minutes up Mt. Monadnock. I wanted to beat his and our friend’s record of 52 minutes too, but I didn’t think that was going to happen, so I just wanted to break my record.

Well, we broke both records. We cut 9 minutes from my previous record and made it up in 49 minutes. The weird thing is, what kept me going up the steepest part was hearing Glenn’s frustrated grunts and sighs. He’s human after all. We were both hauling.

When I got back, Ritu gave me a call, and we were talking for about an hour. We broke all sorts of records there too, because we hadn’t talked to each other in over a year now, I think. It’s great catching up with good friends, especially when you talk to them and no time seems to have ever gone by. Well, she’s moving to the West Coast too. Bummer.

As posted on Cool Running

14th ANNUAL CIGNA/ELLIOT CORPORATE 5K ROAD RACE
August 10, 2006 5K (USATF Certified #NH98030WN) Manchester, NH
ChampionChip Timing By: Granite State Race Services www.gsrs.com
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Place = 2212
Divpl = 117/262
Tot Div = F2529
Nettime = 31:48
Pace = 10:14
Guntime = 33:46
Race# = 2280

2212 out of 4260, that’s not too bad. Not too good either. I wanted my pace to be less than 10, so that I would make it in less than 30 minutes. But with the lack of training (with the packing and the moving and all that), lack of sleep and rest, and the need (prolly just a want) for new running shoes, I fell below goal. Excuses.

But, I shouldn’t be too hard on myself. I did better than the last race:

5th Annual 4 on the 4th Road Race
Keene, NH Tuesday, July 4, 2006
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Place = 272
Name = MD
Time = 45:23
Pace = 11:23

Next race? Linda’s closet, all women’s 5k. September 16. Anyone else want to do it with me? The race, I mean, of course. My goal is less 9:x for pace, 29:x for time.

We shall see.

Here’s a link I got from one of my friends’s blogs (I will not say who, in case smart people make the Microsoft connection, which in her blog is left as the anonymous M - - - - - - - -, but I may have just given it away right there). It’s a cute little video for college recruitment that would make just about anyone want to work at Microsoft.

Well, I work for M - - - - -, and with the free soda*, we get free Gatorade** too! So, there, IN YOUR FACE, Microsoft!

* The conditions for the free drinks are:
1. It is above 80 degrees outside (which means it’s over 90 in our non-airconditioned office)
2. It is not between the hours of 12-1, during which you have to buy your own drinks at the cafeteria
3. It is within an hour of when they put the drinks in the coolers, before everyone grabs a week’s worth of drinks to give to their kids’s baseball teams.

** Along with the free soda, you get:
1. Free ice - not to be placed in buckets to take back to your cubicle to put behind your fan, but rather, only to be put in free item 2.
2. Free sandwich bags with which to fill with ice cubes to make yourself little ice bags to aid in cooling off
3. Free hand-outs about heat related stress and ways to protect yourself, which was conveniently missing an item that should say, “If all else fails, leave, and go to a place with air conditioning, i.e., your home, your room, your car, anywhere but your place of work that has no A/C.”