Memorial Day 2012

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Camp Hill Memorial Day Dash, 2012

Paul, Evan, Jody and I did the Camp Hill Memorial Day Dash today.  Evan won his age group!  Here are photos in reverse chronological order.  And a video at the end highlighting Evan's unorthodox running style. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Check your backups!

In the computer business, the details can really trip you up.  In this 99% true story from Pixar, they almost lost Toy Story II, the movie, because their backup failed.  Evidently their backup machines got too full so the back-ups stopped working, and since the machines were too full, the software didn't have the resources to send the automatic emails to notify the administrator of the error.  And this was going on for quite some time, and only discovered after they needed the back-up.


This reminds me... there are some back-up routines I need to check.

Muscle Confusion

I’m a big fan of Muscle Confusion as a method to prevent running injuries.  I’ve always owned at least two different brands of running shoes, and alternated them to avoid repetitive motion injuries.  The different brands stressed different parts of my muscles and joints.  

A few years ago, like everyone else, I read Born to Run, and changed my running style to a more on-your-toes gait (Jody says it's more like hunched over leaning forward).  Then I took all my old running shoes that had the only problem being the outside heel worn off, and I cut off the rest of the heel with a knife.  Suddenly I had a whole new set of running shoes!  Over time, these shoes are becoming even more worn down, and are starting to come apart.  One shoe lost the whole front tread in a memorable run.  Another has a hole where my big toe sticks out, and I can’t wear that pair on wet roads anymore.

Sumac Survivor!

Today while jogging I came across this plant in a corn field. I'm calling it "Roundup Resistant Sumac". We'll watch it and see how it grows.

Dan Charles wrote about Roundup resistant weeds in this Blog post. I also found another author in Mother Jones who thought Dan was being too nice to Monsanto scientists, but he DID call Dan "one of the nation's reporters most steeped in the history of GM crop commercialization. His 2001 book Lords of the Harvest remains, to my knowledge, the best account of GM crop technology's gestation and birth."