Author: reiszfam
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2016 San Jose Rock ‘n’ Roll, October 2nd
Signed up for the SJ Rock ‘n’ Roll pretty late because it is always a challenge thinking about child care. But this year, they offered kids’ races, so the girls ran the Kids Rock (poor Thing 2 really wanted to run the 5 or 10K, but she didn’t meet the minimum age requirement!) and Thing… Read more
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2016 Surfer’s Path Marathon – May 22nd
The last time I ran this event (last year), I struggled enough that I told myself it was my last marathon. But I ended up signing up for the She.is.Beautiful 1K Club (Goal: run 1000 miles in 2016) and I figured the best way to guarantee that I would hit 1K miles this year would… Read more
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2016 See Jane Run Half-Marathon – June 5th
The last big run was See Jane Run. I came for the non-existent burritos the day after Thing 1 broke his arm just after his dance performance ended. We got to the hotel late (around 11pm), after having spent about 3 hours at Urgent Care getting x-rays, consultation and, finally, a temporary splint for Thing… Read more
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Sonos and Amazon Echo integration
For Father’s Day, we got an Amazon Echo for the hubby. We loved getting calendar updates, hearing jokes, setting up shopping and to-do lists, and hearing some Prime Music, but what was lacking was our ability to play our music through our Sonos system! So, of course, we had to figure out how to improve… Read more
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Santa Cruz Half-Marathon – 4/10/2016
Since I’m in the middle of a training cycle for the Surfer’s Path Marathon next month, I took it easy in the SC Half. I decided to ignore my watch and just ran “by feel.” I didn’t get a PR — my pace was 4 seconds slower per mile than my previous PR (at last… Read more
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A Very Rainy Go Green Half-Marathon – 03/13/2016
What a wet run! It rained the entire time. It was either pouring down rain or sprinkling, but there was never a break! We all got especially wet because the start time was delayed by 10 minutes while they re-routed part of the course. And, around mile 11-ish, we encountered the mess–the path was flooded,… Read more
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Surfer’s Path 10K – 11/8/2015 and Avengers’s Half – 11/15/2015
The Surfer’s Path 10K was eons ago now (way back in November) and, at this point, the details are hazy. But, I did get new 10K PR. Official stats are as follows: Overall: 30 of 464 (6.4%) Gender: 7 of 323 (2.2%) Age Group/Division (40-49): 2 of 92 (2.2%) Start Time: 08:00:08 Elapsed: 00:47:59 Pace:… Read more
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“Language Matters”
Really liked this excerpt from an article worth reading from start to finish (from How to Build a High Velocity Development Team): “JavaScript is the standard language of the web platform, and your app should be written in JavaScript on both the client and the server side. Why? JavaScript is the most popular programming language… Read more
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2015 SJ Rock ‘n’ Roll Half
Here are this year’s SJ Rock ‘n’ Roll Stats: Overall: 1192/8276 (14.4%) Division (half marathon, age group): 25/534 (4.6%) Gender: 251/4020 (6.2%) 5K Split: 25:49 10K Split: 51:50 15K Split: 1:18:30 10mi : 1:24:43 Pace: 8:31 Chip Time: 1:51:31 Clock Time: 1:54:59 Overall, I did better than I did at this event last year (1:54:43)… Read more
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a whole new Wharf to Wharf experience
first Wharf to WharfOriginally uploaded by coffywoman. This year, I ran the 6-mile Wharf to Wharf with my 9-year old! He barely trained. We started doing 1-mile training runs way back in June (June 7th was our first run), but that lasted all of 3 weeks, with only 4 runs in total with the last… Read more