Those were days
2.24.10Well what’s this? A web log, or as the kids call it these days, a b’log? Why yes, yes it is. Keeping the knob on life support, hanging on by a thread. It’s been a couple months since I last posted some gibberish about cat pictures, so how about a return to the days of yore and running lore? These are days it is not, but it suffices.
I’ve run one race, a 5K a couple weeks ago, since the San Antonio Marathon in November. Finished third in a PR of 17:09. An ok run, but not a great race. I wasn’t really competitive mentally, either preparing for it or racing it. Wanted to hang around and do my best, but I never thought I had a shot, and got outkicked by 10 seconds in the last 400 meters. Afterward I paced a friend the last eight miles of the marathon. Highly recommended, pacing. All the glory, none of the pain.
I still want to break seventeen in a 5K, but it’s not a huge priority (and those next 10 seconds are daunting, much like a donut). In fact, motivation for anything less than a marathon is hard to come by. I don’t run much in the morning anymore (ok, a couple of doubles here and there). Mostly lunchtime and afternoon runs. I hardly make it to any Gazelle workouts and do most of training solo based on a book. That will have to change as I’m coaching little league and flag football this spring and the better half wants to train for a tri.
Average weekly mileage so far this year around 50 I guess, high of 70ish. Most memorable workout this period was a 17 miler ending with 3x2mile on the track just under HM pace. For whatever reason, my easy runs are quite a bit faster than pre-SA, though my workouts aren’t necessarily faster. I think I’m still running off fitness built during the “great marathon build-up of ’09″. Suppose I’ll cannibalize that for as long as possible, in some sort of Ritzenheinian strategy to race faster shorter races after extended marathon training.
I’m racing the Cowtown Half-Marathon on Saturday.
Feline Photo Mystery
12.6.09Interesting mystery. In March 2009 Jessica took this photo of her cat Mr Friday with her iPhone, but she didn’t upload it to Facebook until August 13, 2009. As far as we know, the photo never left her iPhone.
On April 2nd, 2009 her brother forwarded a chain email full of “Awesome Photos”. At the time Jessica didn’t even look at the email but today her sister looked at the email (takes her awhile to check her email?) and saw Jessica’s picture of Friday in the email. Huh?
So how did a photo from Jessica’s iPhone that was taken in late March and never uploaded to the web end up in a chain email a few days later on April 2nd?
It gets even stranger.
The photo appears on this website which claims to have posted it on February 22, 2009, a full month before the photo was even taken! The explanantion here must be that the date on that webpage is wrong, or it’s actually a different photo that looks exactly the same.
In fact, there are other photos (february 2, 2006) that are remarkably similar.
The photo from that site (shown below) looks very similar, but is subtly different. Not Mr Friday:
Now Jessica’s photo is all over the web, as you can see here and here.
But still the question remains … how does a photo from Jessica’s iPhone end up on the web if it didn’t ever leave her iPhone? I guess the most likely explanation is that Jessica actually emailed the photo (iPhone didn’t have MMS at the time) to someone and doesn’t remember doing so. And whomever she emailed it to felt it was ok to forward on the photo or post it to the web without her permission.
Bizarre.