Secret Lover I

So I'm about to get dressed and go to Secret Lover's house, where I will present her with the assorted dog-related crap that I got her for Christmas (she loves her smelly ass pugs), as well as the Victoria's Secret gift card. It's going to be a little awkward I think giving her that card in front of her rather prudish boyfriend, but whatever, I can take him. I think that Todd Hoover and the Invisible Teal are going to be at her place recording with her boyfriend who is a music production major. THatIT are pretty good, check them out at invisibleteal.com. Todd is a super nice guy, too. But that's all besides the point. So I think that Secret Lover wants to go to a bookstore. I'm up for anything, as long as I also get food, because I'm super hungry all of a sudden. Okay, that's all for now. I'll update if anything happens of note tonight.

Favorite Sites

usatf.org/routes

Here's the start of a new regular thingy. I'm going to write about some of my favorite sites online. The first is USA Track & Field's "America's Running Routes" page found at usatf.org/routes. With help from a Google Maps feature, you can look up your area with a satellite image or a drawn streets map and plot out the route that you just ran or plan to run. Then it tells you the total distance of that route. This is super helpful for those of us who run but don't own foot pods or gps units that map our routes automatically. I use this page all the time, and I am always telling other runners about it.

I remember back in like 2003 when I was running on a canal in central Phoenix and I had an idea for the exact same feature. I went online looking for the AZ canals website, sort of assuming that they would already have this sort of thing available, since they are always bragging about their Sonoran Trail or whatever that thing is that runners are supposed to follow that moves along the canal for a while. Anywho, I'm glad that someone finally actually designed the damn thing, and I think that there are a few others out there now, too.

“Learn to run when feeling the pain: then push harder.”
-William Sigei

“Great people and great athletes realize early in their lives their destiny, and accept it. Even if they do not consciously realize the how, the where, the what."
-Percy Wells Cerutty

“When I first started running, I was so embarrassed I'd walk when cars passed me. I'd pretend I was looking at the flowers.”
-Joan Benoit Samuelson

Head Groin

I've always wondered, "If the head had a groin, where would it be?"


"The eyes are the groin of the head"

Dwight Shrute