Posts Tagged ‘podcasts’

Sunday’s long run

Sunday, January 25th, 2004

Sundays now means long distance running, and the program for today was a 17 km run at around 1.42-1.59. I finished at 1.48, which I’m fairly pleased with, however, the program describes this as slow pace. I don’t know if I agree with that. In two weeks I have to run 18 km in the same time, and preferably a little faster. That’s going to be interesting. I haven’t been to Löplabbet to try out new shoes, so I fished out the old ones they recommended to me five years ago, and they worked beautifully. Ran 6 km with them yesterday and didn’t feel a thing today. We’ll see how my legs like it tomorrow.

I listened to the Rory Blyth.Net Rocksshow during the run, and it was fun, if a little more devoid of actual content than the Sam Gentile one. However, I think it’s great news that Rory will co-host the show from now on, I think he’ll make an even better host than interviewee. Just make sure he’s got plenty of his drug of choice before you start to record.

1 mcal, and finally a use for WMA

Thursday, January 22nd, 2004

The training program said to run 8 km in 48 minutes today, but as I’m still letting my legs rest, I again went on the Precor elliptical trainer, aiming for a 15 kcal/min pace. Since I wasn’t totally exhausted after the first few minutes I increased the resistance over and over until I hit an (for me) insane resistance and pace. I managed to keep that pace until the end, which gave an average of 20.12 kcal/min, or a little over 1000 kcal (or is that one mcal?) in 50 minutes. I feel a little suspicious of that machine, it felt a little too easy. Or maybe I’m just getting super fit.

A third explanation may be that I skipped the music, instead listening to the .NET Rocks radio show, the episode with Sam Gentile. My JOS MP-100 has WMA support, but I’ve never found a use for it until now. The episode was fairly uninteresting, but Sam’s critique of COM Interop, and particularly the RCW system, was spot on. However, I do disagree with hosts about the importance of the other Interop direction (CCW), since I’m currently working inside a COM framework in which I’d like to plug in .NET classes. There’s got to be a lot of COM based frameworks around still, no?

Next time I’m going to listen to the Rory Blythshow – his blog is hilarious, and I hope the show is as well.