Another update

Okay, so it’s been, like, months since I posted anything.  I haven’t been neglecting the blog on purpose—I’ve just been working a contract that keeps me pretty busy and training for the marathon.

First, I ran the Reading Half Marathon in March for the third straight year.  This year, my time was 1 hour, 53 minutes and some odd seconds.  I’ve been training a lot, but it wasn’t a tremendous improvement.

I finished the London Marathon in April with a time of 4:35:58.  My only goal on the run was to keep from walking.  I didn’t care what my time was—as long as I didn’t walk.  I walked in the 1994 Honolulu Marathon and I didn’t want to walk in this one.  Well, despite my 21.8 mile training runs, I did succumb to walking after the twenty-first mile.  It was a pretty warm day and I just couldn’t keep it up.  I finished the marathon with a new personal-best (since my 1994 marathon was over five hours), but couldn’t keep running.  Oh well—if it was easy, everyone would do it.  Still, I’m proud of myself.

I’ve been working a Silverlight job for the past six months.  I’m enjoying it.

I’ve really fallen off the social networking band-wagon.  I’ve tweeted like one thing this year and haven’t posted here, either.  Despite not tweeting anything, I still get new followers every day—this just goes to show how many people are trying to game the system and collect followers by following as many people as they can no matter how active they are.  And I haven’t been on Facebook much, either.  Sometimes it just feels nice to (as they say in the spy movies) go dark and just disappear for a while.

So, that’s what I’ve been up to—running, working, and not much else.  I’m trying to keep things simple.  I’m happy.