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The university and developer John Arrillaga want to replace the car lots along 300 to 500 El Camino Real with a mixed-use complex. The most recent proposal suggested 96,000 square feet of medical offices, 133,500 square feet of offices, 10,000 square feet of retail, and up to 150 apartments.
The council voted 3-0 on April 2, with Cat Carlton absent and Ray Mueller recused, to put the review on the council's April 16 agenda.
Councilman Rich Cline said that, to date, the proposal was not in any way what the university discussed doing during the creation of the specific plan, and it violated the spirit of the plan.
Councilwoman Kirsten Keith, who along with Mr. Cline asked the council to consider reviewing the project, said she wanted to make sure the public had a chance to be heard.
However, she said, she wanted "to be very clear" that she thought there is a way "to make this a good project for Menlo Park. I just think it's time to have a dialogue."
Dozens of residents have raised concerns about the complex's potential traffic impacts, among other issues, and formed a grassroots coalition that called for an early review of the specific plan in protest of the development. Menlo Park is currently conducting a traffic analysis.
The council asked city staff to provide an evaluation of options ranging from removing the Stanford parcels from the specific plan to a possible moratorium on medical office construction. City Attorney Bill McClure said the staff report for the April 16 meeting would include discussion of the legal viability of those options.
Reviewing the physical details of the Stanford project currently falls under the Planning Commission's responsibilities. The commission will take a look at the project after the new batch of changes are submitted to the city.
Although Stanford wasn't ready to go into detail about those changes, city officials told the Almanac they expect to see a significant reduction of medical offices and a redesign of a public plaza off Middle Avenue.
The council's decision to review the project before the Planning Commission takes a look at the revised design set off alarms for local government watchdog Peter Carpenter, who has since said he plans to create a website "that will contain facts, quotes from elected officials and case studies to help potential developers decide if they should attempt to locate a project in Menlo Park."
He told the Almanac that "since (Menlo Park) doesn't seem to want to play by the rules, i.e. respect its established zoning, then I think that prospective developers need to have easy access to case studies which demonstrate what the city actually does. Just the facts."
Mr. Carpenter's recent comments to the council suggest that he views the attempt to force Stanford to modify a project that follows all specific plan requirements as disastrous for future development in Menlo Park:
"Don't be at all surprised if other developers now simply walk away from the zoo that is called the City of Menlo Park," he wrote in an email on April 3. "(Menlo Park) is now a city without any credibility when it comes to zoning and planning — even thinking about removing parcels from the specific plan and moratoriums less than a year after the Specific Plan was adopted are clear signs of lunacy."


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Apple Trading Is Nuts
Everyone seems to be looking for the fade.
I mean, why not? Just about every gap up the last few weeks has been faded into the afternoon. That is exactly what scares me. This tends to be a fairly good week for the bulls, so I would be hesitant to get overly bearish until late Wednesday perhaps. Again, rumors of fiscal cliff resolutions are pushing us higher. Why solve it until the last minute? Keep pushing out rumors of a compromise or a solution and traders will keep pushing equities higher. I do expect this to be resolved, but it may take us going over the cliff for a final resolution to be made. Even if that is the case, I expect it to come quickly after the new year, if we don't see something in mid-to-late December....280 more words left in this article. To read them, just click below and try Real Money FREE for 14 days.
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By Jay McCall, Business Solutions magazine
It's been three years, but this VAR is finally seeing IP video surveillance sales take off and is projecting 33% revenue growth this year.
To truly understand SiteSecure's current success in the physical security space, it's important to first understand a little bit about its roots. Following Sept. 11, 2001, Wharton-Smith, a large, privately held construction company that works with commercial and environmental agencies such as water and waste-water treatment plants, recognized that physical security was going to become a major focus for its customers. Wharton- Smith spun off SiteSecure in February 2003 with four employees, none of whom had experience in the security industry. Two of the original members, Vice President Craig Bowman and former President (more about the former part later) Andy Bowman, were civil engineers employed by Wharton-Smith. The two brothers, plus a field engineer and a salesperson, had enough combined knowledge to be dangerous. "We started out focusing exclusively on water and waste-water companies, which were mandated by the federal government to perform vulnerability assessments," recalls Craig Bowman. "Each utility company had to conduct its own study and develop a plan to fix any problems. It initially looked like this was going to be a lucrative opportunity, but the initiative quickly lost funding and wasn't mandated, which put us in a tough position."
SiteSecure was forced to quickly diversify, which it was able to do by following its parent company's other key markets, such as aviation (airports) and education (K-12). One notable difference with the company's early days in security compared with many of its competitors was the fact that it recognized the advantages of IP technology.
The Advantages Of Early IP Adoption
One of SiteSecure's early physical-security implementations was with Seminole County, FL, government. The agency had an underground fiber-network infrastructure in place, but not enough to accommodate all the video bandwidth it needed for a surveillance camera project it was planning. "The existing infrastructure would accommodate only eight cameras over two strands of fiber," recalls Craig Bowman. "Using IP, on the other hand, would enable 150 cameras to use the same network." Considering it was 2003, IP cameras weren't nearly as advanced as they are today, which required SiteSecure to create a work-around. "We initially used analog video cameras connected to encoders, which converted the analog signal to IP," says Andy Bowman. "Additionally, DVRs were uncommon, so we had to convert the signal back to analog for the video recorders." SiteSecure began researching for ways to simplify its surveillance solution and came across a company called Genetec, which had a software-based NVR (network video recorder) product. "Not only did this product enable us to avoid the expense of installing a second converter [called a multiplexor], it enabled us to allow our customers to use their own hardware." Unlike traditional DVRs, which were stand-alone boxes that had to be shipped to the manufacturer if they stopped working, the NVR software ran on the customers' servers and could be serviced by their internal IT department or a networking VAR if there were any problems. This move resulted in another advantage that SiteSecure would learn about over the next few years — improved reliability. "Many of the traditional DVRs that our competitors were selling were placed in closets, closest to where the cable was mounted," says Andy Bowman. "In this environment, DVRs would become clogged with dust, overheat, and fail. The only component we installed in wiring closets was the encoder, which doesn't have any moving parts. Servers were always installed in designated areas with proper temperature and ventilation controls, which meant that our video surveillance solution had a much lower failure rate compared to what some of our competitors were installing."
The Convergence Trend Presents A Temporary Hiccup
Within the first five years of SiteSecure's inception, it set up its customers' NVRs on separate networks from their primary IT networks. This gave the company a lot of room for error when installing software on its customers' servers. "We didn't need to be concerned with network security issues, and we didn't need to worry about factors such as QoS [quality of service] and packet prioritization," says Andy Bowman. Around 2008, however, things started to change as more and more companies realized the advantages of running voice, video, and data applications on the same network, a practice known as convergence. Andy and Craig recall the time when their lack of networking knowledge needed to be addressed. "The IT guys were starting to become much more involved with the video surveillance buying decision-making process," recalls Craig. "After a couple of painful conversations, we admitted to one another that we can't even speak the same language as these guys. We also realized that training an existing employee, which would have required taking a semester course at a community college and investing hundreds of hours into training and certifications, just wasn't feasible." In early 2009, SiteSecure hired a networking engineer who already had the IT knowledge and networking certifications to give SiteSecure the IT credibility it had been lacking.
A Long-Term IP Commitment Finally Pays Off
SiteSecure did not experience double-digit growth over the next three years between 2009 and 2012, but it did manage to remain profitable. "We saw a lot of competitors go out of business during this time, but our vertical market diversity and decision to open a second office in the Tampa, FL, area were key factors to our survival," says Craig. "During this time we made the switch from selling analog video surveillance cameras to Axis Communications IP cameras, once we saw that IP camera video quality caught and actually surpassed analog cameras." (See sidebar on page 6s for more info about Axis Communications.)
In 2012, SiteSecure made a big decision that played a key role in moving the company from survival mode to profitability. In a hiring move rarely seen, Andy Bowman hired Jim Fairbanks as his replacement as president of the company, and he took a subordinate role as vice president. "My brother Craig and I are engineers at heart who like to be involved in the day-to-day projects more than the other essential decisions that go along with running a business," says Andy. "Jim's entrepreneurial personality allowed us to make some key changes that were long overdue and helped us get back on the double-digit growth path once again." (See the sidebar "2 Ways The Right Leader Can Help Your Profitability" below.)
SiteSecure is already seeing positive results from its commitment to IP technology and its leadership change. "We're finally reaching the tipping point where more customers are specifying IP technology in their RFPs," says Andy. "Even though there are video surveillance companies that have been around longer than our company, it's rare to find another company with as much IP experience as we have, which is another differentiator. Equally important to our technology expertise is our focus on three core beliefs: 1. Take care of the customer, 2. Take care of your coworkers, and 3. If we follow steps 1 and 2, we will work out everything else."


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Moderators: Timko, Fritz, Solty, Booter, Blake_T, Frank Delicious
Blake_T wrote:Edge around = bringing the outer edge of the disc around/forwards = wrist extension = hammer pound and related drills.
Since golf has been mentioned lately, it's easy to equate the disc golf throw to a golf swing in terms of it's shoulder rotation.
In a golf swing you twist your torso during your backswing. When you start your forward swing things "straighten out" a bit and your arms and club drop into the swing plane. After contact you continue to pull through into the follow through and your shoulders and hips open up forwards.
A disc golf throw has similar stages. Backswing (reachback), "straightening out," and then continuity after the point of contact (point of contact = farthest position forward in the power pocket).
Twirlers have no "straightening out" period and the result is out of control, unfocused power with little control over the disc's momentum.
When you bring the disc into the power pocket, should there be a break in tension before you start chopping the elbow or...? I don't think I'm a twirler, or quite a no-hitter b/c I don't think I'm strong arming at all (habit I forced myself to break after severe tendinitis) but maybe like a quarter-hitter or something.
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95% of disc golfers would skid out at or before the apex.
Blake_T wrote:When you reach the front of the power pocket the disc should feel like it weighs a ton. If you enter the pocket with a decent amount of speed, the disc should be exerting 20-40 lbs of force into your hand when you peak in the power pocket's forward position.
Your goal is to control and redirect that momentum like a judo throw (into the arc).
CloudySkyJedi wrote:What is it that redirects it? shoulder rotation? or wrist extension? or the pinch?
It feels like the farther I put it in the pocket, the harder it is to get it back out before the target line / hit point. I can't find a feeling forceful enough to redirect that 20-40 lbs that late in the throw with everything happening so fast.
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MINNEAPOLIS Supervalu announced that David Boehnen, EVP, is transitioning to a new role at the company effective Dec. 15. Boehnen will no longer be a Supervalu officer but will continue to consult for the company as a senior counselor to Craig Herkert, Supervalu's chief executive officer and president, for one year.
"Dave has made many contributions to Supervalu in leading the legal function as well as real estate and corporate development that have shaped who Supervalu is today," said Herkert. "I have personally appreciated his advice and counsel during my first 18 months with Supervalu and I look forward to continuing to work with Dave in his new capacity and sincerely thank him for his years of service."
With Boehnen's new role, Todd Sheldon, group vice president, legal, will be promoted to SVP and general counsel, reporting to Andy Herring, EVP real estate, market development and legal.


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The Pacific Climate Change Roundtable (PCCR) brought together over 100 participants and focused on building resilience to climate change through collaboration.
The Roundtable was one of a series of Pacific regional meetings for disaster risk management and climate change.
5 July 2013: The Pacific Climate Change Roundtable (PCCR) brought together over 100 participants and focused on building resilience to climate change through collaboration. The Roundtable was one of a series of Pacific regional meetings for disaster risk management and climate change.
The PCCR, which convened from 3-5 July 2013, in Nadi, Fiji, aimed to strengthen coordination of regional organizations to support regional climate change priorities. Roundtable sessions addressed: increased resilience against climate change impacts and disaster risks; innovative tools for adaptation and mitigation; the "Green and Blue economy" and sustainable development; and climate financing.
According to David Sheppard, Director-General of the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), the PCCR is "the premiere climate change coordination mechanism for the Pacific." In his closing statement, Sheppard highlighted key points emphasized at the Roundtable, including the need for: good science, while ensuring it builds on and reinforces traditional knowledge, and is available to those that need it most, particularly managers on the ground; balance between adaptation and mitigation, and, within adaptation, between infrastructure and nature-based options; resolving critical 'non-climate change' environmental and associated social issues, such as resource depletion, invasive species, and land and marine management; and a greater awareness of the urgency facing the region regarding climate change and associated impacts, such as sea level rise.
Also highlighted during the meeting was the Pacific Climate Change Portal, an information hub to strengthen understanding of climate change issues that features an events calendar, directory of experts, image library, and the Pacific Climate Change Projects Database, which is still under development.
The PCCR was established to coordinate climate change dialogue and networking in the region, and facilitate linking global and regional stakeholders with national and community levels. It is coordinated by SPREP in partnership with the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS) and the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), among others.
The 2nd meeting of the Pacific Meteorological Council (PMC) convened from 1-5 July. The PMC is a subsidiary body of SPREP, which is coordinated by SPREP and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). It plays a critical role in enhancing and developing weather, water and climate services in the Pacific region. The meeting agreed on actions to achieve the goals of the 2012-2021 Pacific Islands Meteorological Strategy, and strengthen coordination between national meteorological services and development partners.
In addition to the PCCR and the PMC, the following meetings convened: the Pacific Regional Water and Sanitation Consultations (1-3 July); 19th Regional Disasters Managers Meeting (1-3 July); and the Strategic Alliance Meeting of Pacific Islands Disaster, Fire and Emergency Services and Police (3-5 July).
This series of events will culminate with the first-ever Joint Meeting of the Pacific Platform for Disaster Risk Management and PCCR meeting from 8-11 July 2013. [Website for Pacific Regional Meetings for Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change] [SPREP Website] [SPC Website] [Pacific Climate Change Portal]


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Wicca is a modern religion that is believed to be based on older traditions of witchcraft and, ultimately, pre-Christian pagan religions of Europe. It was popularized in the 1950s by retired British civil servant Gerald Gardner.
The religion is based off of duotheism and centers it's worship around two deities. They are generally referred to as the Mother Goddess and the Horned God.
External Links
- Wicca on The Celtic Connection
- Wiccan Church of Canada webpage
- Wicca on Paganism at a glance on BBC Religion & Ethics
- Misconceptions About Wicca and Paganism
- Wicca and Neo-Paganism on Sacred Texts.com


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Mo Farah pulls out of Commonwealth Games
Track superstar Mo Farah has been ruled out of the Commonwealth Games in a huge blow to his England team and the Glasgow track program.
Farah, the Olympic and world champion in both the 5000m and 10,000m, was scheduled to attempt that double again.
But the 31-year-old has been recovering from recent illness and he withdrew on Thursday to focus on achieving full fitness for next month's European Championships.
Farah said: "I have taken the tough decision to withdraw from the Commonwealth Games. The sickness I had two weeks ago was a big setback for me."
The Londoner, who was set to be one of the biggest stars in Glasgow, pulled out of his last two races - the Glasgow Grand Prix meet and last Sunday's Anniversary Games in London - after being admitted to hospital in the United States with abdominal pains.
He has been training hard at his altitude base in Font Romeu in a bid to be fit for the Games, but they have come too soon.
The 5000m final takes place on the first evening of the athletics program on Sunday.
Farah added: "Training is getting better here in Font Romeu but I need another few weeks to get back to the level I was at in 2012 and 2013.
"I really wanted to add the Commonwealth titles to my Olympic and world championships but the event is coming a few weeks too soon for me as my body is telling me it's not ready to race yet.
"Best wishes to my fellow athletes in Glasgow."


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The Marvelous Mirror Maze consists of a series of columns and arches surrounded by hundreds or mirrored reflections in every direction. The unusual floor lighting enhances the "infinity effect" by giving the illusion of continuing hallways, when in fact you are at a dead end! The Ripley's Mirror Maze challenge is to "get lost" and find your way out again: backwards or forwards, it's never the same experience twice – enter if you dare!
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Happy Palendrome Day!
Particularly auspicious as it is the one day in the year when the British (?) date format dd:mm:yy is synchronised with the crazy back-to-front US date format mm:dd:yy. A rare day!
I just can't wait for - wait for it - 20:09:2009!!
Maybe we should all get married, a la The Moonies!
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There was a time when a machine tool supplier could serve a local market sufficiently by having machines for sale in that region and having technicians available to service them. That much isn't enough anymore, says SNK America—at least in the industries that this machine tool supplier targets. Manufacturing staffs are now so lean that it is no longer common for a manufacturer to have sufficient in-house engineering personnel to develop and prove out new processes. The machine tool supplier needs to be able to provide this engineering work for the customer as a complement to the machine. SNK, like various metalworking equipment suppliers, has responded to this development by expanding its commitment to the market to include a tech center. More than a showroom, a tech center is a live, fully staffed machining area in which customer parts are machined and processes are developed and improved in partnership with people from the customer facility. SNK is debuting its newly opened Mount Prospect, Illinois tech center with an open house on October 2-3.
The video above illustrates one of the machine demos that will be seen at the event. For the sake of filming the cut without coolant, the workpiece here is steel. The actual demo cut will be a 1-inch wide slotting pass at a 2-inch depth of cut in titanium, using a HN80D-Ti horizontal machining center from Niigata (an SNK Machine Tool Group company).


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MIRAMAR, Fla. - As a Gen X-er I am keenly aware that many of my generation and younger generations may not know or remember just how close past freedom movements lurk for us. And often the lessons of our foremothers and forefathers, which seem inapplicable and distant, have been lost.
But as we know those who fail to study the past are destined to repeat it. So to fully engage in the opportunities of the present and move the causes of freedom and justice forward, we must all be students of history.
In my own family, it was only three generations before me that one of my eight great grandparents, born in 1837, lived the humiliating and brutal existence of a slave. A slave, as Dr. King once described, "was a thing to be used, not a person to be respected." Indeed, my great grandfather was not free to own land, he was not free to vote, he was not free to marry or even to choose his own mate, he was not free to earn wages for his own labor, he was not free to raise his own children, to learn to read, to own a book or even to decide whether or what time he would wake up in the morning. My great grandfather was the chattel property of some farmer who owned him just as he owned a pig or horse or piece of furniture. It was not until 1865 when Alabama ratified the 13th Amendment that my great grandfather was emancipated from slavery in Dallas County (just about 20 mile south of Selma) and at the age of 27, and, by our nation's laws, first became human.
It was only two generations before me that both of my grandmothers were born into a world that considered them and all women the rightful property of men. Their ownership included the recognized and widely-practiced legal right to manage and discipline them as one might a child. Indeed, at least until 1920 when the 19th Amendment was finally ratified, they and most women were considered too childlike, emotional and unintelligent to handle the right to vote. It is not surprising then that both of my grandmothers suffered abuse from the hands of men in their own homes or communities. One, though valedictorian of her high school class, as a wife and mother of five, had to negotiate the right to work outside of her home. The other, though one of the few girls who was smart enough to be hand selected to attend high school in her small Mississippi town, found circumstances so dire that she never realized that opportunity for educational advancement when she fled her home as a teenager. Years later, she again felt the need to flee as a grown woman with her children in tow. She lived out the remainder of her much-too-short and much-too-hard life as a laundress for a hospital in order to take care of her family.
It was only one generation before me that my father was born as one of seventeen children to that same laundress and a sharecropper (which, for those of you who don't know is a small step up from slavery - akin to indentured servitude). My father was born in a Mississippi town so tiny that just three or four businesses made up the entire downtown – among them a gas station, a store and a theater and, yet, even in a community that small, the tone of my father's caramel-colored skin was so reviled he was restricted to the balcony to simply sit and watch a movie. Though he grew up with the constant degradation of Jim Crow in the cruelness of Mississippi-style racism, he was the beneficiary of unmitigated courage and unreasonable vision. It must have made quite an impression when he watched his father, my grandfather, march to the big house to tell the master of the house that in no uncertain terms was he or his field bosses to give orders to his sons to work unless those orders came through and from him. You see my grandfather insisted on creating and maintaining a school in the little black neighborhood church and he insisted that his children would not spend their days tilling the land in the heat of the Mississippi sun but rather they would have the same opportunity to be educated like their white counterparts.
So my father was not raised to be particularly inclined to live in a world that deemed him unworthy of sitting at a food counter or sharing a water fountain. While barely out of adolescence and in his early 20s, he and his comrades took on the unjust systematic oppression that had defined their daily lives from the lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee to the bloody graves of Birmingham, Alabama (which by then had come to be known as "Bombingham"). It had infamously claimed among its dead four little innocent girls who were preparing their Sunday School lesson in the basement of their church on a quiet September morning. My father was not so desensitized to racial abuse that he could ignore the outrage, pain and an imminent sense of responsibility he felt after the senseless murder of yet another black man, Jimmie Lee Jackson, a black woman's son, who was shot while attempting to protect that woman – his mother – from the brutal beating unleashed on her by an Alabama trooper. News of Jimmie Lee Jackson's death so ignited him that he, in turn, ignited a crowd with his fiery impromptu speech in a small church in Marion, Alabama. The members of that crowd, who, like my father, were sick of seeing strange fruit blossoming from their trees that too closely resembled the bodies of their fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, sons and daughters, became the foot soldiers who took on what proved to be a deadly challenge to march from Selma to Montgomery to demand the right to vote and end the systematic brutality against black people. Images of Bloody Sunday as that first march came to be called ignited the nation. The power of the foot soldiers' courage, their capacity to continue in the face of murderous brutality, their sheer determination to love and not retaliate against those whose hatred seemed boundless gave birth to the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
It was within my generation that my Jewish mother moved with her two black daughters to Memphis Tennessee -- her University of Michigan degree in hand -- and boldly knocked on the door of the Black Panther Party to offer herself as a comrade in the fight for justice and the fight against the white privilege that, in this nation and particularly in the South, was her birthright. Though she always remained a dedicated comrade in that fight, the indelible image of more than a dozen rifles cocked and aimed at her and her small children during a police raid caused her to rethink our living arrangements. We found our way to a small duplex on Philadelphia Street right next door to Mr. Jack. And, we had indeed jumped from the frying pan into the fire for Mr. Jack wasn't just a racist, Mr. Jack was pure evil personified. He would force his teenage daughter to make the most despicable signs imaginable to post in his yard whenever a black candidate ran for office. He would make sure we witnessed him beating his grandson for the simple act of tossing a ball over the fence to us, as if our brownness, light though it was, might be a contagious condition that could afflict his household if we touched the same ball. A precaution he wouldn't take if we had been merely dogs.
He would sit on his porch cleaning his guns and ranting about the demise of his once pure white world. One day while playing hide and seek, I had the unfortunate experience of staring down the barrel of one of Mr. Jack's shot guns as he beckoned to me and said, "Come here nigger girl." The fear I felt in the pit of my stomach only grew sharper when I was finally able to move my feet and run and tell my mother what he had done. I was afraid she would never come home when she marched to his house with our broom in her hand to let him have it. Needless to say, I completely underestimated the power of the truth spoken by a fiery mad mother who had no fear of living or dying for the sake of justice. I never saw one of Mr. Jack's shotguns again.
It was with the voice of my generation that we organized and marched to protest the exoneration of police officers who were videotaped beating one of probably thousands of black men they had pursued and callously referred to over the LAPD CB airwaves as NHI – the acronym for "No Humans Involved." Yet, at the same time, I, the great granddaughter of a man born into slavery, was able to launch this protest on my campus as a black student and campus leader at one of the most prestigious universities in the world.
And, it is within my sons' generation that we have witnessed the landmark election of the first black President of these same United States in which the institution of slavery existed and thrived just four generations before them. A milestone that unfortunately has been marred by the vitriolic political backlash never before seen in this nation that longs to return us to the alleged "good ole days" of 1776 apparently by any means necessary! 1776 – that is, before our nation had matured enough to actually comprehend that all men and all women are indeed created equal and that all are born with certain inalienable God-given rights. The alleged "good ole days," as I recently heard Ben Jealous explain to a crowd, in which the average and expected life span, even for white men, was around 33 years.
So, yes, there is no doubt that we have fulfilled and lived some of the unimaginable dreams of our mothers and fathers, of our grandmothers and grandfathers from their generation to ours. We have made great strides in tearing down the legal barriers to equality and justice. Yes, in just five short generations we have come a mighty long way, but as Dr. King once reminded the nation, we have a long, long way to go to reach the promise land of his dream.
For you see the era of Dr. King is not just a story about a great man, or a story about a race of people or even about the education of a historically misguided nation. It is much bigger than that. The era and legacy of Dr. King is a transformative moment in human history in which the world witnessed the power of the peaceable but relentless pursuit of a peoples' inalienable rights.
It is the legacy of the unmatchable courage of men and women who awakened daily with the imminence of their own demise, but who in the face of such circumstances boldly stood and spoke the truth to power that made others cower.
At least parts of Dr. King's dream are now touted by all but the most hateful of us as not only palatable but irrefutably right – that is, most rational people now honestly believe that the color of one's skin should have no bearing on the opportunities and limitations that define our lives and our livelihood. However, that was not the whole dream:
Dr. King dreamed not only of little black boys and black girls holding hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers, but he understood how race and economics were inextricably tied and his dream therefore encompassed the dream of little poor girls and poor boys having the same educational opportunities as rich boys and rich girls.
When he and his colleagues launched the Poor People's Campaign, Dr. King's dream imagined a nation where all people could access the necessities of life -- affordable and decent housing, adequate healthcare and medical treatment, and livable wages.
Dr. King also dreamed that as a nation and world we would study war no more. That we would recognize the casualties of war are not just the estimated 100,000 to 1 million innocent civilians whose lives were cut down in Iraq, the casualties of war are not just the tens of thousands maimed and disabled civilians and veterans who barely escaped the horrors of war with their lives, the casualties of war are more than the night screams and terrors of the Iraqi children and the American soldiers who suffer the post traumatic stress of seeing other human beings destroyed, the casualties of war are far greater than the loss of human history in the Mesopotamian Valley where thousands of years of that history are recorded and are now buried under mounds of war-torn rubble. The casualties of war even exceed the trillions of dollars taken from the heart of a productive economy to be transferred to the coffers of the most powerful and rich corporations entrenched in the U.S. military industrial complex. Dr. King preached and understood that the casualties of war include the very soul of our nation and our world – the maturity of humankind – the principles, for which our foremothers and forefathers have lived, struggled and died.
My favorite King quote is and has always been a message he wrote from a Birmingham jail cell:
And it may well be that we will have to repent in this generation. Not merely for the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence and indifference of the good people who sit around and say, "Wait on time."
Somewhere we must come to see that human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability. It comes through the tireless efforts and the persistent work of dedicated individuals who are willing to be co-workers with God. And without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the primitive forces of social stagnation.
And, I must agree with Dr. King, who agreed with Dante that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. There comes a time when silence is betrayal.
When I was in college, I had one of my first opportunities to serve as a mentor a young middle school girl, Tia. In fact, I was recruited specifically to be this young woman's mentor because the other volunteers found her to be a bit too difficult and sassy to handle and, for whatever reason, it was assumed that I would be the perfect fit. During my first year of serving as her mentor, the City of East Palo Alto, which then rivaled Washington, D.C. as the nation's murder capitol, closed down its one and only high school. So, the students were bused to the neighboring community of Menlo Park, which was predominantly wealthy and predominantly white. The next year, when Tia started at the new high school, she had quite a few difficulties. Her teacher requested a conference with her mother, but her mother was not able to attend so I went in her stead. Unbelievably, during the meeting, with Tia sitting right next to me, the teacher said, "It has been a nightmare since they shipped 'these children' here, it's like dealing with animals in a zoo." In that moment, I had a choice to silently acquiesce and finish the meeting. But, silence then would have been betrayal. My silence and acquiescence would have signaled to Tia that the problem lied with her; that she was nothing more than an animal that had escaped from the city boundaries meant to contain her. I simply could not be silent. I simply could not fail to advocate for Tia's right to not only be educated, but to be respected. I educated that teacher that day and, I am proud to say, Tia defied every stereotype and limitation her teacher tried to impose. Today, she is a successful rising manager at Fortune 100 company, she is a homeowner and owner of several properties and she has single handedly lifted herself and her children as well as her mother and her siblings out of the poverty she lived as a child.
So, on the eve of the King Holiday, the message I have is: there is still work to do . . .
As long as every 3.5 seconds someone dies of hunger-related causes, every 11 seconds someone dies of AIDS and every 15 seconds someone dies of waterborne illnesses, there is still work to do.
As long as 24 million children are unable to access vaccinations for preventable common childhood diseases, almost 1 billion people have no access to clean water and 2.6 billion people have no basic sanitation, there is still work to do.
As long as 15 to 25% of women and 5 to 15 % of men in just our own country are coveted, molested and raped in the silence of night by beloved fathers, uncles, brothers, guardians, there is still work to do.
As long as girl children all around the world are forced to end their education, leave their parents' home and become child brides or prostitutes before they reach the age of puberty, there is still work to do.
As long as women earn only $.75 for every dollar earned by a man for comparable work, there is still work to do.
As long as two-thirds of our adult population is obese or overweight and obesity-related type-2 diabetes is considered epidemic by health care professionals, there is still work to do.
As long as the United States has the highest documented incarceration rate in the world such that one in every 18 men in the United States is behind bars or being monitored and 44% of those prisoners are black, there is still work to do.
As long as human consumption patterns continue to destroy the Earth's biophysical resources and ecosystems, when the scientific consensus is that human-induced global warming is a fact, there is work to do.
And, all of this work is fiercely urgent . . . leaving us to ask, if not us, then who, if not now, then when?
The answer of course is that the time for action is always right now and every revolution begins with just one person's idea of a more just, sane and better world. We don't have to all solve every problem, but we must each take it upon ourselves to be the solution for at least one problem. The work you do doesn't have to lead to a Voting Rights Act, the dismantling of apartheid or worldwide nuclear disarmament to be meaningful or important. Perhaps it's as simple as demonstrating and having a conversation with a male child about not accepting the privileges life may offer him because he is male or acknowledging and actively rejecting your own privileges – whether by your race, gender, sexual orientation, economic class, national origin or citizenship – and making sure whatever benefit you have derived from that privilege, it is available to all people. It may take the form of affording a job or a promotional or mentoring opportunity to someone who does not look like you or have the advantages you have, or simply paying attention and helping others pay attention to the products we purchase so that our children and grandchildren won't have to figure out how to extract from their drinking water the chemicals we thoughtlessly and daily flush down the drain.
If you want to have a meaningful existence in this world, you must find a purpose in your life that is bigger than you and greater than the amount of material possessions you can collect before you die.
What Dr. King understood better than most is that we are all inextricably tied - there is no freedom for any of us unless there is freedom for all of us. And "us" is not narrowly limited to those who share our race, our gender, our sexual orientation, our national origin or geographic boundaries. Just because those who are marginalized may serve as our canaries in the mine does not mean that the poison we pump into out atmosphere won't eventually cause our very own demise. It may not happen in our generation, but the effects of the dream or nightmare we create here and now will be felt in the next or the next or the next generation.
Two years ago when we buried my father, the chorus of an old freedom song reverberated in my mind for months. It was the soul stirring song written by one of the movement's superstars, Ms. Bernice Johnson Reagon, which captured the words and spirit of her mentor, Ella Baker. Ms. Baker was an often behind the scenes powerhouse who advocated for participatory democracy that was truly by and for the people. She lived by the principle that Strong People Do Not Need Strong Leaders. She was also a fierce advocate for young people and the power that they could exert to change the world.
So as we reach that time of year where we all reflect on the life of Dr. King, I call on the spirit of Ella Baker who taught us that the movement did not and does not live and die by a single individual, no matter how great. Rather, it is an ongoing movement that requires all of us to participate as courageous foot soldiers and requires all of us to commit our lives to freedom. As Ms. Reagon Johnson perfectly captured in the powerful chorus of Ella's Song:
We who believe in freedom cannot rest;
We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes.
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The Federal Housing Administration today issues its annual report to Congress. A Wharton School professor is warning the FHA's problems are worse than the agency is letting on. The professor predicts that taxpayers will have to provide another multi billion dollar bailout if the economy doesn't improve soon.
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Cupertino dogs will have their own place to play, just as soon as the city gets done building and digging later this year.
The Cupertino City Council voted 4-1 on Feb. 5 to move forward with a long-awaited dog park project slated for Mary Avenue. The council voted to boost the project budget, rezone the proposed area and put out a call for construction contracts.
The rezoning decision was the final piece needed to move forward with a project that has been an on-again, off-again proposition for more than two years.
The project has been in preconstruction limbo since an October 2010 soil analysis that found high levels of lead in the soil at the site. Subsequently, the council added $100,000 to the project budget, and the spending boost will help cover the potential additional costs for soil remediation. The city will not know how serious the soil issue is until remediation work begins, according to staff.
The rezoning vote is the culmination of a nearly five-year effort by the city to find a suitable off-leash area on city property. The contentious issue dominated city council discussions throughout 2009, as council members and city staff worked through numerous off-leash hours or dog park proposals.
The Mary Avenue project was the only site to gain enough traction for majority council support.
Numerous 2009 meetings lasted long into the night, and this most recent public hearing was no different, as approximately 40 residents took to the microphone to voice one last bit of opposition to the nearly one-acre park. Nearly all residents in opposition were neighbors from nearby housing units.
Public comment lasted more than two hours and the council did not deliberate on the issue until just before 11:30 p.m. The majority of public comments centered on worries about sanitation, traffic, parking, noise, odor, safety and proximity to homes.
"This dog park is right next to the Casa De Anza condos, and for that reason alone I oppose the rezoning," resident Sudhakar Reddy said.
Leelavathy Dhanasekaran and Thyagarajan Radhakrishnan live at Casa De Anza and estimate their home will be roughly 30 feet from the new dog park. The family is worried the proximity of the dog park is going to adversely affect their home life.
"It's going to be a living hell," Dhanasekaran told the Courier before the public hearing. "Every day that [dog] smell is going to be coming into our living room."
The site is located on the west side of Mary Avenue, roughly halfway between the Oaks Shopping Center and the Don Burnett Bicycle-Pedestrian Bridge. The site is an unused triangular parcel of land owned by the city, which is bordered by the Casa De Anza condominiums and Highway 85 soundwall and is situated across the street from the Glenbrook Apartments.
The park will be approximately 19,000 square feet, with two separate areas for big and small dogs to play. The surrounding chain-link fence will be about 4 feet high. The park will also be double-gated to further prevent dog escapes.
Dogs owners will be required to pick up feces immediately. Disposable mitts, and a covered receptacle will be provided at the park.
The council funded the project during last year's budget creation. The total project will cost no more than $450,000. Councilman Mark Santoro and Vice Mayor Gilber Wong successfully convinced enough council colleagues to earmark an additional $50,000 in project funds to find ways to mitigate the effect on neighbors. City staff will investigate wall construction or other ways to buffer noise and potential odors.
The soil remediation process will see workers remove the lead-contaminated soil and replace it with clean fill, according to a city staff report. The soil will be tested as work progresses to identify the actual boundaries.
Councilman Rod Sinks cast the lone dissenting vote on the matter. Sinks did not feel the site would get enough use and was dismayed that only three residents came to the meeting in support of the dog park in the face of overwhelming opposition.


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Eager to show his gratitude, Calderon started for the locker room and offered high-fives to fans along the way. It wasn't until he reached the tunnel that Calderon realized he had followed his former Raptors teammates toward the home locker room.
As the two teams walked off the court at halftime, Pistons players broke to the right, where the visitor's locker room is located. Out of old habit, Calderon continued left and found amused media and former teammates waiting.
There were few embarrassing moments on the court for Calderon, who performed well in his return to Toronto. Calderon posted 19 points and nine assists in the Pistons' 108-98 road loss.


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The TURTLE ROOM (4:30 +/-, less a pace than an attitude)
Darth - I totally understand the appeal of going for your limits and seeing what happens. I did that in Long Beach and had a very ugly introduction to the Wall. Miserable experience at the time, but in retrospect I'm not unhappy I did it, because I really learned a lot.
Did 7.3 this morning with 10xbridge repeats. 158.96 total for the month of September.
Knee report: ran an easy 12 minute mile today with minimal, but some pain. The joint feels "loose" more than anything, and seemed to get better as I ran longer. I didn't want to risk more than a mile. Also did some jog/walking with the dog to warm up, and that went okay. My marathon pace is about a 12 minute mile anyway, so. . .
going to keep up with ibuprofen 3x a day and using the knee brace. Will try three miles tomorrow, but so far, so good. 6 days to go.
murphyo: you can have my marathon medal when you can pry my cold, dead fingers from it
20 miler in the bank for me to tired to write but great runs to all
Yuhasscience- Hope the knee gets better before the race! Hang in there! I know mine has been bothering me lately too and my first marathon is October 13th, so I feel your pain. Just forcing myself to rest even though I don't want to, and icing it a lot. It surprisingly doesn't hurt at all this morning, but I'm still going to skip running. I would rather wait another day or two after and make sure feels perfect before trying to run on it to be sure it's completely healed. We have worked too hard to not make it to the finish line at this point!
atr- Damn, more than 200 miles in a month! Congrats on that! Can't wait until I am running those miles!
Run for 1- Great run! 20 miles seems to be my favorite long run distance... not sure why really. Just a nice, even distance that makes you feel a sense of accomplishment the rest of the day I guess.
Me- Just been sitting around n my butt now for 3 days like a bum. Probably going to go do some strength training today at the gym so I can at least feel like I did something... starting to feel like a potato. lol
Happy running everyone!
Hi everyone!
Welcome to the new folks and hello to everyone else.
I took a bunch of days off because my tendinitis was super bad last Wednesday. Ran a test 3-miler this morning and am back on track with my taper, though I'll still take it easy and continue to ice the heck out of my calf. For those of you who are worried about taking time off, this is now the third marathon in a row (out of 4) that I've had to take about a week off in taper or in the last month and I've always arrived on race day totally fine.
I thought I'd bring back this link, since many of us are or will be experiencing some taper madness shortly: http://blog.runnerslounge.com/...symptoms-and-tr.html I personally keep thinking I'm getting the date of the race wrong by a week!
Allyson and Yuha - Hope both of your knees feel better soon. I've had a bout of runner's knee and rest definitely helped it, as did the exercises my PT prescribed (I have a copy of the exercises typed up if anyone wants me to message them).
Darth - At what pace will you start your race? You and Pete are predicting massive PRs!
Evan - I have barely done any speedwork in the last 3 years and have had PRs all over the place - pretty significant ones at the 5k, 10k, 10 mile, and half-marathon distance. I agree with Murphy - if it's "just" a 5K it makes it so much easier to push through!
Happy running to everyone!
Freckels- That's really nice to hear, and helps a lot. Knowing that it's actually pretty common for people to have to take a week or two off right before their marathon makes me feel better. Plus, form what I have heard, it seems like most people who are forced to take a break actually come back to run a PR... maybe we underestimate the power of just letting our bodies heal.
Wow! The Turtles have been busy!!!
Murphy-great mileage and congrats on those numbers!!! Even better is beating the mind game dragging yourself out there. I had to run last night as i couldn't do it in the morning and i thought of you as i was soooooo tired but i did it, even made a 7 miler out of a 5 so thanks for the inspiring posts!
ATR-great job on the streak and hitting the monthly PR! I hit one as well for september, 139 miles, but these are all PRS for me as it's my first marathon training cycle! But still great to hit them so very nice job to you (even better with the lighter weight!).
Evan-congrats on the PR!
Runfor1-i can't wait (well maybe) to do the 20 milers, you must have a few stacked up for your next marathon...good job!
Allyson-sounds like the knee is improving, ice ice ice and rest...i remember i had a 1/2 a few years ago, was hobbling around for 3 weeks prior but come race day i was fine and set a new PR. amazing what rest can do as long as you don't go bonkers....maybe some light swimming might help, though light you don't want new muscle soreness.
freckles- thanks for the link! i will stash it away. everyone has upcoming marathons, it's fun to watch and hear reports even though mine is officially 16 weeks away!!!
I had a great running weekend!!! new PR for september miles and trying to do more core work, gotta get back to the gym i have been slacking there...it sounds like everyone is doing great, happy to hear the reports, keep them going!!! i have vacation end of this week, so researching new running routes, should be fun.
happy tuesday.
run for 1-see you at 4:30 tomorrow!
sorry meant to ask,
has anyone tried compression sleeves? i have been getting tight calves lateley, just after running, likely due to higher mileage, and yes i am stretching, foam rolling, it's not debilitating at all but wanted to hit the head before it starts...anyone try these and if so what brands to you like? do you use during or just after running.
Hello Everyone! I'm a new turtle here. (icon which looked most like a turtle)
I ran my first marathon in January at the ripe age of 45 in Disney World at 5:45. I'm from NY and trained in zero and teens degree weather, so when the marathon day was 85 degrees, I figured I should slow things down since others were dropping off around me. Still, I managed to finish...a life long goal.
I quit running for a few months after that and only started again in July. I wasn't sure what I wanted to do and figured I'd maybe do a 1/2M and focus more on speed (sorry...non-turtle work). A month ago I found out about the Hambletonian Marathon near me and it was going to be the inaugural running, so I figured I had to go! I did a quick 4-week training and just ran a 21.3 mile official course group training run. My new goal is to cut 1 hour off my last time; however impressive that may sound, it is still within turtle standards.
The training run was great because I started slow ("turtle"), figuring I would speed up and save something for the end. I was able to meet a bunch of people and found some people around my pace to run and converse with. I had a GREAT time! The last few miles of the run was rough though since I forgot to refill my hydration bottles (had 4-8oz bottles and that's all I used all run), I thought the run was 20mi, and my right calf started cramping frequently at the end (see hydration note). Regardless I finished and despite what rabbits may think about my pace, I don't care since I had one of the best times running EVER.
Thanks to the support staff at the Hambletonian in Goshen NY that day - you guys are GREAT!
Happy running!
i have the compression socks and only have used them on one run and liked them, I mainly use them after my long runs,they really help my legs recover well and feel good. I will also use them on the plane on my trip to France this Saturday I also posted the hat light in an earlier papist for u best of luck and congrats on the pr mileage and the 20 milers are fun it's a whole new world lol
welcome gotdruns and u will take an hr off easily
Hi freckles good luck son marathon day
Freckles- I'm not deciding pace until I'm pretty sure about the weather. If the temp is below 65 for the high, I may go for 9:20ish to start. If its above that I'll put sub 4 on hold and just take the massive PR, somewhere between 9:30-9:55. One thing I'm sure of is I'm a terrible heat/humidity runner, but if I get great race day conditions, I'm gonna go beserk.
Tracey- I have CEP compression socks and I love them! They are pretty goofy looking, but the do wonders for your legs. I wear them to bed every night and whenever I am at home. They are kind of costly ($60), but I have worn mine every night since I bought them over 5 months ago and they are still holding up.
Tracey - I have compression calf sleeves I use on my long runs (10mi+) and I honestly couldn't tell a difference.
However on one 18mi run where I forgot to wear them, I felt fine (and ran great) but ran through some poison ivy that had grown over into the shoulder and couldn't be avoided due to the narrow shoulder and cars coming. That night my left leg was itching in a few places and I had nightmare thoughts of big blisters forming on my leg (I am highly allergic to poison ivy) and what that would do to my marathon training. Luckily the itching remained localized in 3-4 small spots and finally went away after a week.
My case is specific and unlikely for most, but another good reason to wear them for some.
welcome gotdruns and u will take an hr off easily
Thanks Run For 1 and have a great first marathon!
GotDRuns, welcome! I'd hoped to do the Hambletonian. I spent a lot of time in Warwick, NY and thought it would be fun to get back there, but the scheduling didn't work.
Tracey, I have compression sleeves and only use them if my calf(s) are sore after running. The one I got at a hospital supply place is better than the Zensah pair I have, but it looks like a big bandage.
ATR, big miles, dude. Keep up the good work.
Hey turtles.
tracey - On the not so costly spectrum of compression socks you can get soccer socks that do the job without costing an arm and a leg. I use mine after long runs and they help a lot. Congrats on your highest month mileage.
gotdruns - Welcome! I felt parched just reading about your dehydration strategy.
darth - Sounds like you have plan A and plan B covered. Now make a plan C in case of torrential rain and plan D in case of aliens and you are set!
me - I had a stuffy nose since Sunday and the rain yesterday made it runny. When i woke up today it was just stuffy again. I took an URD to avoid getting it worse again. Here is to breathing normally tomorrow morning.
atra7.. hope the cold warms up soon and the nose clears
Another 6 in da bank for me. Wore my new Mizunos that they replaced under warranty felt great and will be very happy if I get another 750 miles out of these ones.
Happy runs to all and to all a good run
Run for 1 - France? I'm jealous! I'm a huge francophile, lived in Paris in college, and would like to stow away in your luggage if you'll allow me.
atr - Go away, sniffles!
tpm - How's Bucks training going?
GotDRuns - Welcome! Hambletonian should be cooler than 85 degrees. I just looked at the course map - that looks like some hill at mile 15!
Tracey - Congrats on your miles PR.
Darth - Smart to wait for the weather. I think we're running the same day and one weather site has thunderstorms my way! Eek.
Allyson - I agree about letting our bodies heal. It's a little tough for the taper madness but a steep taper can be refreshing for the body.
Me - Ran 7 to work today. I felt a little tired but the legs felt totally fine. I was worried about how my tendinitis would feel on the downhills (I think hill work made it flare up last week), especially since my marathon next weekend is mostly downhill, but everything was A-OK. Now it's time to freak out about the weather.
freckles. I think training's going well. I felt pretty lousy at the end of last week, vague sore throat and low energy, but ran well last night and this morning. 2 x 1 mile @ 9:07 and 9:02 last night which is pretty fast for me. Weight's a little better than it has been and I feel good going into the last 5 weeks before taper.
How's taper?
Knee Feels Better Today!
Still taking ibuprofen and using a brace at night to keep from aggravating the ligament. The marathon is Sunday. Not planning on running again until maybe, Saturday, I might think about a shake-down jog of about 3 miles.
Just really worried about how miserable I'm going to feel, stamina-wise, on marathon day if I haven't done any long runs since my third 20-miler 11 days ago. Am I going to be a total wreck, or is two weeks actually not that much loss of fitness if I plan on running a 12 minute mile and taking walk breaks?
edited to add correction: two weeks since my last run.
Taper madness is definitely affecting me. I'm seriously thinking about making all of the lessons I teach for the rest of the week marathon-related. I'm a middle-school math/science teacher.
Do you realize how much fitness you can actually lose in 2 weeks? You'd better get yourself some gloves, knee pads and a "Don't Tread on Me" flag to wear on your butt so you don't trip a more worthy runner because you are gonna finish this race crawling in the gutter. Start teaching your math class about mortality rates. Christ, you may as well start freakin' smoking and don't do any carb loading that includes red sauce. It looks really awful on the road.
Really, man just get to the line pain free. you'll be fine.
lol if you can fit ur welcome to come heading to Annecy France in the North French Alps not for play but work but I will run around lake Annecy when I'm there maybe some wine lol whoop whoop I Heard snow is in the forcast on ur big day lol kidding should by nice.
nice fast miles! and u can lose alot in 2 weeks
me bought new head lamp Black Diamond at REI can't wait to check it out tmrw morning
Hi everyone!! Cheers to hump day and 2 days until vacation!!! Wooh Hooh!
That was a very funny post TPM-but i agree that Yuha you will be fine. Trust the training and tell yourself that it's all mental at this point, don't let it get you down....just get to the starting line and remember what an accomplishment that is regardless of time! And allyson i hope your knees are getting better as well!!!
RunFor1-France should be nice although it sounds cold....hope you get some good runs, sounds beautifuly take some pics and post. Let me know about the head lamp, i think i'm going to try the hand held lights..the mornings are soooo much darker now and i had a few trips this morning that were short of disasters, i need to get some sort of light.
ATR-hope the sniffles are gone. I take vit C 1000 daily seems to work
Freckles...don't go crazy with the weather...i guess i should appreciate phoenix as we never have the extremes.
I had a great run this morning, made it out by 4:30 so back in time to walk the mutts before work. they were happy....happy hump day!!!
Thanks for all the advice in the compression socks...think i'll invest in a pair or try on the kids soccer socks after the next long run....
GotDRuns - Welcome! Hambletonian should be cooler than 85 degrees. I just looked at the course map - that looks like some hill at mile 15!
Thanks Freckles! Yeah, the hill at mile 15.5-16 is a 200+ft climb...I figured it was a good walk & refuel break; however I continued to run almost to the top on the training run.
For me, it wasn't too much trouble since I was into running up the small mountains around me last year (did a 2-mountain 10mi run once...slow, but done!).
GotDRuns, welcome! I'd hoped to do the Hambletonian. I spent a lot of time in Warwick, NY and thought it would be fun to get back there, but the scheduling didn't work.
Thanks Tatooed! The Hambletonian should also be a beauty of a run (weather permitting) since it is during the NY Fall Foliage time. Maybe I can try to pick some apples along the way (inside Warwickian joke).
There was an alternative to the NYC Marathon some years back that was run in Warwick, Pine Island and, I think Florida. All I could picture was running through the black dirt smelling onions. Do they still grow them there?
There was an alternative to the NYC Marathon some years back that was run in Warwick, Pine Island and, I think Florida. All I could picture was running through the black dirt smelling onions. Do they still grow them there?
I believe the onions are still around and growing strong and I think there was recently an Onion Festival nearby. Haven't been to one yet, but probably will one day.
tpm - As ever, you are one of the few people that make me actually lol while online. btw, coming home the last mile after 10x bridge repeats Monday, "Keep the Car Running" came on. It doesn't pop up on my shuffle that often but when it does it always seems to be just what I needed. And I send a mental thanks x-country to you.
GotD - Welcome! So I may have missed the date but it seems like you decided a month ago to train for a marathon that was 4 weeks away, so that's now? I'm actually very curious about this Hambletonian now that you're all talking about it, so I think I'll have to look it up.
Tracy - I'm so glad to have you, otherwise I'd feel like the only "leftover" marathoner. With so many races in October, training for a Dec-Jan marathon makes it easy to feel like we're behind the curve. Your 20-milers will come soon, and it's a pretty awesome feeling to knock down your first one. I have no advice on compression socks. And I am still in awe of people who can get out of bed at 4:30 to run. I have only ever done that on the actual day of a marathon. Oh, and I had to laugh at "we don't do weather extremes" in PHX. What was your high temp this summer? Just sayin'.
Run41 - If you have to fly x-Atlantic and work, at least you've got running in the North French Alps to make up for it.
Yuhas - You are going to be fine. The hay is already in the barn. There is minimal fitness loss. You will rock this marathon and have a great time doing it. That is all.
Allyson - You too.
Freckles - I am very looking forward to seeing what you do at Steamtown. If there were "Turtley Awards" as there are Academy Awards, I would rate you as a sleeper. You may have had some calf issues in the taper, but on the whole you have rocked this training cycle.
Welcome to October, let the games begin!
GotD - Welcome! So I may have missed the date but it seems like you decided a month ago to train for a marathon that was 4 weeks away, so that's now? I'm actually very curious about this Hambletonian now that you're all talking about it, so I think I'll have to look it up.
Hi MurphyO,
Thanks for the welcome! Yup...basically that's it; however I ran my first marathon in Jan, stopped, started running again in June, was increasing my mileage steadily and was planning a 1/2M race in Sept, so I seemed already on track. I was divided about what to do this fall and was focusing more on speed until I heard about the Hambletonian. I always do self-tests to determine whether it's wise and in the time I found out about the Hamb, I did my long weekend training runs of near max effort of 13mi (PR), 16mi, 18mi and then the official course - self paced 21.3mi runs in fine shape (barring my own silly mistake of forgetting to refill my hydration bottles). I'm only aiming for sub 5h finish, so I think I should be fine. YMMV
Hello turtles!
freckles - Freaking out about the things we can't control is the best part of tapper!
science - Make the students do your pace analysis and projected finish times. Should be fun if you ask for multiple plans.
Also you have to really let your body heal and not worry about it. Your plan with walk breaks will get you there for sure.
tracey - I usually just drink a steaming cup of tea after the winter runs and that keeps me healthy enough. But it was a humid summer just 2 days ago.
me - Today the weather was perfect. High 50s, overcast, cold wind from the North. Perfect running weather! I did 12 miles with 9 at MP. But i was too fresh from the rest of the URD yesterday and my pace was all over the place. Ended up with 9 at MP -8sec/km. But thanks to the conditions it felt effortless.
In late August I made the decision to finally tackle the marathon distance. I have been running for the last 6 years or so, but usually stayed in the 25-35 mile range per week. In July I started a bootcamp style workout and it really has increased my energy levels and for whatever reason after a discussion with a friend in the afternoon of a Tuesday, I decided to go for it. I signed up for the Las Vegas marathon on 11/17. When I started I had 88 days to go and I am half-way thru I guess.
I am doing double workouts per day - boot camp in the morning, running in the afternoon, and long run on Saturday's. I am tired, but allow myself to rest and skip a workout or an entire day (except long run days) and so far this strategy is working out well. I am averaging mid-40s (miles) per week and actually ran almost 185 miles in September alone.
My biggest unknown is the pace I should go for. I am almost 46 years old and I am simply stunned about speeds some people of the same or older age are posting. No idea how they do it!!! I ran 21 miles last Saturday and was finally able to bring the average pace to below 10 minutes (9 minutes 55 secs to be exact). My original goal was 10 minutes mile, but now I am hoping to go a bit faster. But how fast? I do not want to do a training run at fast speeds and then knock myself out from being able to train (does that make sense?). So, on each of the long runs I play it by ear and speed up towards the end. On my 21 miler the last 4 miles were the fastest and the last 2 miles even came in at 8.39 and 8.41 - and I had some fuel left in the tank, but I was definitely breathing hard and huffing and puffing. lol But I have to say I live at 6,000 ft. altitude and it is a very hilly area where I run.
My best goal would be to run below 4 hrs, but I am kind of scared I burn out early. Anyway, just wanted to introduce myself. Love the discussions in this section.
Just checking in.. marathon is next weekend. Missed a lot of training over my wedding/honeymoon time. I'm not as prepared as I could be, but i'm sure as hell not quitting now. Going to take it really slow, and just do the best I can. Hope you all are well.
gotdruns - Welcome! I felt parched just reading about your dehydration strategy.
haha! Thanks atr7! Yeah, normally I consume twice that, but it was cool and foggy in the morning; however it got hot and sunny near the end.
My biggest unknown is the pace I should go for. I am almost 46 years old and I am simply stunned about speeds some people of the same or older age are posting. No idea how they do it!!!
My best goal would be to run below 4 hrs, but I am kind of scared I burn out early. Anyway, just wanted to introduce myself. Love the discussions in this section.
Hey bigbyte, welcome!
I'm around your age as well and definitely understand how intimidating it can be when you see those other fast times; however I figure with enough training I might be able to eventually get closer to those goals.
I've read that for your first marathon you should throw out all your plans for X:XX finish/pace/etc. and do your best to: not get injured; FINISH; and have a great time (I'll add to save something so that you look good in your finish line photo). Besides, isn't sub 4:00 starting to get into frog territory?
Just checking in.. marathon is next weekend. Missed a lot of training over my wedding/honeymoon time. I'm not as prepared as I could be, but i'm sure as hell not quitting now. Going to take it really slow, and just do the best I can. Hope you all are well.
Good attitude! Have a great run and I hope all goes well.
bigbyte - You definitely do not want to be running your long runs too fast, especially with everything else you're doing. The stress on your body isn't worth the payoff. Try to keep your long run at least a minute slower than your realistic marathon pace. Then maybe speed up at the end to goal marathon pace and hold it for a few miles if you feel the need for that validation (I often do.) Have you run a half-marathon recently? If not, can you do one about 4-5 weeks out from your full? That would give a good sense of what might be realistic.
GDR - Okay, now I remember the part about the January marathon. Makes more sense now.
btw, just as a bit of trivia and/or motivation, I'm pretty sure the marathon record in the Turtle Room is 4:07, set by Empty last December. Female record is about 4:19 (can't remember exactly) set by JustBeth. But LOTS of times well beyond that. That's the beauty of the Turtle Room, we take all types here, except a**holes.
XC -Good luck next weekend!!
Yuhas - I like the idea of giving your students marathon math problems. Ex: I want to finish in 4:29. I hope to run a 2 minute negative split. Given constant paces for the firs 13.1 and the second 13.1, what should my pace in mins/mile be in each half to achieve my goal. Of course it's even more fun to do the problems in your head during mile 16 of an 18-miler, conditions you probably can't replicate in the classroom.
srd here today. I think I forgot to mention yesterday that I did 9 miles with 6 at "tempo" generously defined (roughly hmp to hmp +20)
Hi everyone!!!
XC-You are a winner just by getting to the starting line. Just think of what got you here and if it's not a PR there are no worries. Just be happy that you are a married happy woman that's healthy enough to run!
BigByte-welcome to the group, it is a great one. I don't have any advice as i'm a newbie marathoner myself, i would advise however you watch the double days with the boot camp....it's easy to get injured esp as the miles creep up.
ATR-great running weather, wow!! Amazing how that makes a difference! I"m enjoying cooler mornings here and even the 80s feel perfect
Murphy0-Your tempos are great! I wish i could add speed but i'm hesitant to do so at this point other than MP runs...maybe next time....but you are doing great. And I don't enjoy the 4:30 AM running but on those days i have no other choice. it's nice to get it out of the way, but there is always an internal conversation in my head with every excuse why i shouldn't roll out of bed, but then i do....biggest problem is trying to get in bed early enough to get at least 6 hours of sleep...my husband doesn't help. neither does the X Factor...i admit i'm an X factor junkie!!
Everyone have a great running weekend! We are off tomorrow for vacation until next thursday! Yey! I had a great 11 miler today, felt good. was able to do a 10:30 pace tried to slow it down as it was my LR (cutback week) but it felt good so i did it. now i can justify the wine on vacation!!! Will find some great new running routes and excited to do so!