Cowboy Hazel

What a great name for a race. I am, of course, referring to the Healthy Kidney 10K that I ran this morning in Central Park. If only my performance was as good as the name. I finished with a time of 42 minutes, 25 seconds (a pace of 6:50 miles), which is considerably better than what I ran the Scotland Run 10K in March but still wasn’t what I was hoping for. I hit the second mile marker at under 13 minutes, but ran out of steam going up the Great Hill. I finished the first 5K in 20:35, but slowed to 21:50 for the second. So, clearly, pacing is still something I need to work on. Another thing that’s bugging me off about this was that I was hoping to break my personal record set back at the Evergreen Town Run in August 2001. I missed it by over half a minute though. I’ll have another chance coming up in just over a week though… Bolder Boulder 2008. I cannot believe that it is already Memorial Day. Where has this year gone?

Not much else has been going on around here. I’m just working a lot. I’ve been creating tools to format, rearrange, and FTP post csv lead files for Precision, doing more preliminary layout work for the Flopalongs site (I need to get working on that in earnest in this weekend), implemented a completely new style and several new features on Fair Trade South America, and created a whole new messaging system on Plant Ink. I’m not including a link to that one yet because it’s still in beta mode. Josh and I have been testing it out and working out the bugs. I have just been really unhappy with the changes that Facebook is making lately and I’d like to have a good alternative to their messaging system. Enter my new Conversations platform. I’ll keep you posted. June and July are going to be very busy months for me on the development front. I’m going to be making some huge improvements and additions across the Lantenengo Network in an effort to achieve my goal of 1,000,000 hits a month by the end of the year. Look for a dramatically reinvented Plant Ink, some major improvements to East Coast Runners, and even a couple new sites.

Well, I should get to work for real now, so we’ll call that enough for today.  Enjoy the weekend.