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Chicago Megathon, er… Marathon Race Report
Let’s get the gory details out of the way. My time was a 4:24:50. I was hoping for a sub-4. The Chicago Marathon was on my list of marathons that I wanted to do. While New York has the five boroughs and the Boston Marathon has the prestige, Chicago is the flat, speedy marathon of…
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Pre-race gear check for #CM10
Gear laid out for the 2010 Chicago Marathon Mizuno Wave Rider 12 with 388 miles on them (I chose better stride over Saucony with fewer miles) Powersox Timex IM stopwatch OBX Marathon running hat — it’s gonna be a warm one tomorrow, and salt and contacts don’t mix. FuelBelt bib holder – got shorted on…
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Haskell resources
In order to reclaim some of our programming mojo that has waned from years of maintenance programming and meetings, a couple of us programmers decided to go and try to learn a completely new language–Haskell. I think this expedition was spurred by a blog post titled Great resources to learn Haskell. I’m as much a…