Taking tomorrow morning as a rest day. I fly to Boise early in the am, and my legs are pretty sore. I think it would be unwise to push myself through sprints in the morning. I’ll take running shoes to Boise and if the weather is decent I’ll run either Thursday evening or Friday morning.
Longer again
Woke up at 5am, stretched for 10 minutes, ran 3.2 miles. The run itself felt better, especially toward the end. The beginning was hurtful because my legs were sore from yesterday’s sprints…haven’t used sprint muscles in a while, apparently. Overall pace today was 10.18 (maybe I should make a pace graph, too).
First sprints
Ran sprints this morning. 60 meters x 8, with a two minute cool down between each sprint. Made my legs feel weird.
Meta Brendon
After messing around with Tumblr and seeing how it can pull in everything from everywhere, I figured why do it there when I could do it here (and hopefully better). This page already grabs my del.icio.us feed, my twitter feed and my flickr feed. It’s just missing Slacker Manager, the joglog and Yamhill.TV. So I’m going to be shooting those over here using the excellent FeedWordPress plugin. This blog will check for updates to those other three blogs. When it finds them, it’ll pull the posts in here. Well Yamhill.TV and joglog for sure. I’m not going to syndicate Slacker Manager over here quite yet.
Anyway if you see a bunch more posts over here, and they look familiar. That’s why. Write once, publish a bunch of times!
Longer
This morning I ran in a fashion that real runners would term “LSD”, or long slow distance. I was certainly slow (with a 10 minute mile pace), but not particularly long. Well, long for me but… Anyway, felt pretty good. Feels like I’ve got some minor shinsplints though.
A very Good Friday
Yesterday, being Good Friday, I didn’t have to work. So I went on a hike up at the Opal Creek Wilderness. It’s was a beautiful day–around mid 70’s up in the mountains. My guidebook said the trail was a 7 mile out and back. My GPS said 6.6 when I got back to the car. But then the actual GPS track said 8.3 miles. I think the track is bigger because we walked around a bit more, but also because I didn’t turn off tracking when we stopped for lengths of time (such as at the end of the trail). I think the GPS “wanders” when it’s not moving. So I guess I’ll just call it 7 miles.
Here’s a KMZ file that you can open with Google Earth. The file will display the route I walked and it has pictures from the hike that are geocoded into the track. If you don’t have Google Earth (or don’t want to download it), here’s the same stuff in Google Maps.
I successfully did this once before, but it’s been a while so I had to relearn all the steps. Just to fill up the outboard brain with more knowledge, here are the basic steps I followed (mac-centric, but I’ve seen similar stuff for PC…hint: RoboGeo):
- Sync GPS time and digital camera time at the trailhead
- Enable “tracks” on the GPS
- Take pictures while you hike. If you dawdle for very long, turn off tracks, but remember to turn it back on when you start walking again
- When you return to the trailhead, turn off tracks on the GPS
- Back home, download the pictures and the track from the GPS. I always have a little trouble with the track part (getting it out of the Garmin PC-based mapping software). This time I used GPSBabel, and it worked like a charm. It’ll grab data from your GPS unit, and it’ll convert that data into a TON of different formats. Very useful.
- Once you have your track and your pics, you’ve got to combine the data streams. I use GPSPhotoLinker. It has a few different options for matching up the timestamps on the track and the pictures. Great software. It also has an option for pulling tracks off the GPS directly. I never got that working, so GPSBabel to the rescue!
- Now that you’ve got your pictures geotagged, you can use the iPhotoToGoogleEarth plugin for iPhoto. It’ll output your geotagged photo into the KMZ or KML format. If you’ve already got your track loaded in Earth, just drag/drop it into the new photo “Place” to combine track and photos. DONE!
Edit: once you have your Google Earth KML file, you can stick that thing on a server and view it through Google Maps just by putting the URL of the KML file into the Gmaps search box and hitting enter. If you are displaying images you’ll need to provide references to images available online. Flickr works well for this. Just edit the KML file in a text editor.
A very Good Friday
Excellent hike today up at Opal Creek. 6.6 miles, roundtrip. Sunny and warm. Awesome.
Still hurts
Woke up at 5am, stretched for 10 minutes and ran the short loop again. Got a lot closer to a flat 8 minute pace this time, though: 8.09. I’m pleased about that. And that included a section of street where I walked because there was a stray dog barking and chasing me!
This morning, after dropping the kids off at their respective places, I’m going to go do the monthly hike at Opal Creek. I’m planning on an easy 7 mile loop, with a geocache or two along the way. Taking Frodo with me.
Sally Dallas and the Newberg Gallery
It was fun chatting with Sally Dallas of the Newberg Gallery the other day. Sally’s shop is a longtime fixture on the Newberg art scene and she was a driving force behind getting the First Friday Art Walk going. In this clip Sally talks about the history of the Gallery, what kind of art she features and what’s fresh for the next Art Walk.
Running time: 3 minutes, 56 seconds
Welcome, Newberg Graphic readers!
Hey, if you read about Yamhill.TV in today’s edition of the Newberg Graphic, thanks for stopping by! Have a look around, watch some videos and be sure to subscribe to email updates.
While David Sale, the reporter from the Graphic, and I talked, I took a bit of video. The light is weird and it didn’t turn out all that great, but here’s little clip to satisfy you.
Running time: 42 seconds
