27 February 2013
Press Credentials
The purpose of this post is to establish my media *credentials.* This will allow me to access the Nats media guide, which is provided only to the media covering the Nats. I may even start with some original content; something like a broadside against all those guys who use math to predict how many wins a team will register in a given season. That's fine, to each their own, but the absence of some sort of confidence interval around that number renders these data almost useless. There, I think I am a member of the media now. You're welcome.
24 September 2010
Try this again
Yeah, it's a slow Friday and I decided to take another stab at blogging. I have not figured out exactly what I need to say, but Facebook posts are too short to really write anything worth keeping. I think the pending elections and all of the misleading discussion about economics has stoked my interest... Stay tuned, or not.
10 May 2009
Thank You Cleveland!!!
Nats: 10-18, 0.357
Cleveland Indians: 11-20, 0.355And, they live in Cleveland...
01 May 2009
Nats staN
Well, I am suffering through another lame effort. When will I learn? Manny seems completely detatched from the game, just mechanically going through the files in the inbox. On the bright side, Hanrahan seems to have found the strike zone and big Zim seems to be locked in. Willie is doing his thing and Dunn makes me smile---because he reminds of Ricky Bobby. And, I guess being a fan of the home team is better than being a fan of somebody else's home team.
03 March 2009
philly post mortem
The good the bad and the ugly. The good was I finished around 3:18; the bad was I finished around 3:18; the ugly was my post run "monkey butt" as so delicately phrased by an anonymous runner. He spoke the truth, but the pain was intense and it was still below freezing. And the finish was far from the hotel.
Here is a quick overview of the Philly experience. (I know it has been a very long time since I posted, but facebook is easier... and I am sort of lazy.) The course sort of stinks. Mile 4 or 5 was cobblestones. The end of the race is out and back along the Schuylkill river. Boring and cold. In the middle we run up some hills near the fairgrounds, I thought the course was flat and fast. Overall, I give the course a C-.
Race management seemed overwhelmed and the 7 am start made for a very cold late November race in Philly. Little medical support at the end, I just needed a chair so I could put my clothes on... wheel chair would have been nice too. I grade it a C.
Weather was crazy. Below freezing from start to finish, water stations were, as you could imagine, ice stations. The run up the Schuylkill was mostly in the shade whcih made it even worse. Thankfully, the wind was not that much of a factor. Cold, but not miserable, B-.
My performance stunk. Not enough speedwork coupled with an abbreviated training schedule meant I was stupid to run sub 7 at any time during the race. I did and I paid. And, the bathroom break (bad diet management) at the half marathon point cost me 4 minutes. Other small issues were the knee pain the developed after a Friday easy run and the quad pain that has been around since last summer (it's still around). D-
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Here is a quick overview of the Philly experience. (I know it has been a very long time since I posted, but facebook is easier... and I am sort of lazy.) The course sort of stinks. Mile 4 or 5 was cobblestones. The end of the race is out and back along the Schuylkill river. Boring and cold. In the middle we run up some hills near the fairgrounds, I thought the course was flat and fast. Overall, I give the course a C-.
Race management seemed overwhelmed and the 7 am start made for a very cold late November race in Philly. Little medical support at the end, I just needed a chair so I could put my clothes on... wheel chair would have been nice too. I grade it a C.
Weather was crazy. Below freezing from start to finish, water stations were, as you could imagine, ice stations. The run up the Schuylkill was mostly in the shade whcih made it even worse. Thankfully, the wind was not that much of a factor. Cold, but not miserable, B-.
My performance stunk. Not enough speedwork coupled with an abbreviated training schedule meant I was stupid to run sub 7 at any time during the race. I did and I paid. And, the bathroom break (bad diet management) at the half marathon point cost me 4 minutes. Other small issues were the knee pain the developed after a Friday easy run and the quad pain that has been around since last summer (it's still around). D-
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