100 in a month

Ok I just got sucked into this challenge, you can do it to 100 pushups by July 31st. If you want in go to the following and post a comment to sign up:

A Mickey Mouse Umbrella World

My good friends Stan and Diane wrote on their facebook page “[we] think you’ll never do anything if you wait for a good forecast.”  I know that they were really just talking about the weather recently but it really struck a cord with me.  It made me think of Exodus when the spies were sent [...]

Thankful

Good news.  I have a position with Life Technologies.  It is a 50% research and 50% production position in their media formulation group.  This is my first position in industry.  What is very exciting to me is the opportunities to grow with LT.  It seems that once in the door the choice is mine as [...]

Thankful for spam blocker

So I guess Word press is getting slammed with spam, at least my blog has been recently.  Lots of advertisements for nude pics of people.  But that is why we put these filters on our accounts.  I am not sure what the spammer gets in return for all of this.  There must be some sort [...]

12.2 mile week

After a week off for my toe, I didn’t know how this week was going to go.  Apparently the extra rest was good for me because I reached 12 miles total.  Thats a new high for this year.  I know all of you 50 mile a weekers probably scoff in my general direction but hey, [...]

Running note

This is just to say I took this week off from running.  I had a bad blister that wasn’t healing correctly because of its location on my foot.  so I wanted to get that squared away before it resulted in something worse.  Technically, my week starts on monday, so I could get in some miles [...]

May running review and how I became a Yankees fan

I am really happy about May.  I ran for 36 miles this month.  That’s 16 miles above my average last year.  I made it out at least three times a week.  I had three 5 mile long runs.  So there is improvement.  More over, I ran a sub 16 minute two miles and  a sub [...]