I had two thoughts when I saw this license plate, the first was thinking of the car speaking with a Homer Simpson voice, the second was of Dana Lyons' old tune "I'd go anywhere to fight for oil to lubricate the red, white and blue" which you can listen to at http://www.cowswithguns.com/cgi-bin/listen_lube.cgi

All 5 of you (ok, maybe 10) that regularly read my silly little blog know that I started running a few months ago. Amazingly, the Couch to 5k training actually seems to have worked -- I've been running about 5k three times a week for the past few weeks.

Most things I read about keeping motivated when returning to running after so long suggest that you should register for a 5k race, giving yourself a goal that is tangible -- in 3 months I will be in shape enough to run a 5k without walking.

Well, it's 3 months later and the race that seemed so far off when I started is now around the corner. This coming Saturday I'll be running the Percy Sutton Harlem 5k.

I wish someone had suggested that I check out the course the race would take and train accordingly. I mapped out the route today http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=5024346 and then went to google maps street view to check out the course. I totally failed to train for running the hills that are part of this course. I'm a bit nervous about it. My best time so far for my perfectly flat, east river park training course was 27:15, I'll be excited if I manage to finish the race in under 30 min.

It has been 29 years since I ran an organized race, and I have never run a race with this many people (it will be between 1500 and 2000 people). I'll let you all know how it goes.
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Today's photos:

I was alerted to this odd bike storage (art project?) by my one of my favorite blogs, EV Grieve: http://evgrieve.com/ who linked to the initial post at Curbed.com http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2011/08/19/check_out_this_wacky_bicycle_st...
 
 

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