Month: January 2009

  • How long was your marathon?

    How long was your marathon?  It’s a question that annoys the slightly-less-than-novice marathoner.  There’s an air of offense that comes in response to the question:  “How dare you not know how far I ran?  It’s a marathon.  Worship me.” But there’s not that much that is special about finishing a marathon, because in reality, many…

  • Cold, wet, but fruitful 16-mile in 2:26:03 (9’00″/mile) this morning #twit2fit

    I ran in the 45 degree rain this morning, starting about 8:30 in the morning.  I had originally intended to run with a group from work this morning at 8 am downtown, but the thunder, lightning, and downpours canceled that.  However, by 8am at the house, things had cleared up enough to go running. There…

  • Importing an ftp blogger blog into WordPress 2.7

    If you have a blogspot blog or custom domain, there is a Blogger import in wordpress: wp-admin Left Sidebar Tools, Import Select Blogger Of course, if you have your own hosting and use Blogger via FTP to publish your blog, this is not an option I tried using the RSS feed import in blogger (as…