Nice Gesture

I had a nice surprise from my custom boss: a thank you note for my work this year with a $25 AmEx gift card included. It is nice to work for someone who is not overly with concerned with advancing his career at the expense of those who work for him.

Listening to some good music now: Lucinda Williams "West".
Link to some nice Lucinda

Good luck with the Morton's event.

I am probably the last to see this but...

Very creative video and use of auto tune.

I never heard that one before

I am trying to figure out how to do this. :-)


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Posted Results

The results are posted. I met both my goals: a faster time and finishing in the top of half of my age group.

http://www.eliteracingsystems.com/2009_roadraces_results/2009_jsrchm.html

Race Resullts

I am happy to say that I beat my goal by just under 3 minutes. I came in at 1:49:14. I am not sure where I was in my age group as official results aren't posted on line yet. It was a perfect day for running. The temp was about 60 and sunny at the the start with a nice ocean breeze. The route we took was was along the board walk from Asbury Park to Sea Girt and back. There were actually two routes to choose from. The other was three loops of 4.35 miles each. The reason was the long route that Jimmy and I took had the prospect of a drawbridge opening which would have killed both the time and momentum. The serious racers did the loop, I think. I was planning to do the loop too but Jimmy said as we were approaching the turnaround that we should do the long one. I am glad we did as it would have been tedious running the same loop 3 times.

This was a qualifier for the NYC marathon. I was 9 minutes over qualification time for my age group so I have quite a bit of work to do if I want to achieve that. I would have to train much harder and focus on speed instead of endurance. I will see. Now I will train for Philly in September. I am not sure if a full marathon is in my future but if it is, it would be Steamtown in Scranton, PA. It is all downhill: the elevation at the finish is 975 feet lower than the start.

Race Tomorrow

The Asbury Park Half marathon is tomorrow. My goal is to beat my Philly time of 1.59.34. I am hoping for 1.52. I have been sub 9 minute miles in all of my training runs so I think it is possible. It is a flat course and the weather is supposed to be nice. I also bought new shoes for the race: New Balance 993

Here is the route.

Duplicity Film review

I really liked Duplicity. I never thought of myself as a Julia Roberts fan but she was very good in this. I like films with intricate and suspenseful plots. This reminds me somewhat of Michael Clayton in that regard. I also liked the relationship between Roberts and Clive Owen. I don't the lack of trust they had for each other, but their compatibility intellectually and sexually. I'd recommend it.

Post script. It resembles Michael Clayton because the same director, Tony Gilroy, did both.