Yeah, yeah...I'm a terrible excuse for a blogger. Admitting I have a problem is the first step, blah blah blah... What's to say? I just don't have much interesting to say and what interesting stuff I do have is stuff you're not supposed to write about on the web. My work situation has been a regular roller coaster of late, but even I know better than to dish about the office in a public place. It's TVnewser's job to speculate about the motives of the movers & shakers in my business, I just try and get/stay on their good sides. I have felt more proactive/productive there of late, but it takes it's toll. I feel like I'm always thinking about work, whether I'm there or not and if I'm not thinking about it, I feel stressed because I feel like I should be. I need to raise my profile by pitching more and making myself seen and heard. So if anyone has any brilliant ideas for national interest news stories that they think should be on tv, by all means, tell me about them!
The photo of the pup is just because I thought he was funny. This unfortunate example of severe canine inbreeding was just standing outside a cafe on the slushy pavement, shivering his pathetic, pedigreed ass off. He just turned and looked up at me and I couldn't help but read into his expression...Please don't judge me, it's not my fault.
As for the running. Well, I am doing it. Almost every day too. Just not very fast. I have a wonderful new heart rate monitor strap that is much, MUCH more comfortable than my old one and I'm really committed to slowly building my mileage up while staying within a fairly conservative range of effort. I've got the thing set to keep me between 139 and 158 bpm which is actually pretty challenging and forces me to run quite a bit slower than I would otherwise, but I'm hoping that I'll start to see a gradual increase in the pace I'm able to run within that range.
I still haven't done any racing yet this year, though I was signed up for a five miler yesterday that was canceled due to the weather. Well, they actually did still stage it as a "fun run", but risking an injury by running a race on icy roads isn't really my idea of fun. I put in 14 miles, but I did it much later in the day when the park drive was clear and dry and all of the snow just made for pretty scenery.
What else... The movie "The Lives of Others" is excellent and you should try and see it if it's showing near you. That was a high point of my last couple weeks. Try out some of those funny looking swirly compact fluorescent bulbs the next time you need to buy a new light bulb. They cost a bit more, but they work great, last forever and give you a healthy dose of good clean-earth karma. That's it for now. Hopefully I'll come up with something else to post about before April.