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On Saturday, I really wasn’t looking forward to running the Shamrock Shuffle because of the snow in the forecast. Sunday morning it was snowing pretty hard. While driving into Chicago, we couldn’t see the buildings — good thing we know where things are! After freezing in the starting corrals for 15-20 minutes the race started.

The first mile was the most painful but it was better once I warmed up. Over all the course was wet and slushy since it was about 34 deg and snowing.

I was happy with my time - 47:38. I was also very wet and tired at the end — here are some photos.

Alisse was there, too. She stood on the sidelines in 6″ of standing freezing water. I don’t know if she’ll come again.

• Got my new running shoes yesterday. Time to break them in! #
• Why does coffee taste so good after a good workout? #
• Had a great time downtown bowling and hanging out for Scott Potter’s birthday. #

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• I really like Orb for streaming music from my home PC. http://www.orb.com. #
• What kind of blog - micro-blog (ie Twitter) integration do you like? #

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• my legs are still sore from doing lunges on Tuesday — made it hard to run this morning. #

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• is happy that my work laptop now has 3 gigs of RAM. #

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• @alissewissman I’m jealous of chipotle for lunch… in reply to alissewissman #
• Had Portillo’s for lunch :). And it was free! #
• Started reading “Refactoring to Patterns” looks really good! #

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I know podcasting has been around for a few years now, but I haven’t really listened to any. Now, with my recent goal of running a half marathon, combined with a new set of head phones (that stay on while running) given to me for Christmas and an armband acquired from a liquidating chain technology store I am able to listen to podcasts. Right now, my favorite is Wait Wait Don’t Tell me.

Does anyone have any suggested Podcasts?

It’s official! I’m registered for the Chicago Rock ‘n’ Roll Half Marathon. It’s August 2nd, so I have about 8 months to train. I better stop hitting the snooze button :/