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I ran the half marathon last year and I did pretty good as a guy who just barely started long-distance running (2 and a half years). Plus, I had three month training with Spartans Running Club which helped out a lot.

My time was 1:37:25. The 13.1 mile is grueling; mentally and physically. I’ve been busy lately and haven’t had the time to train as compared to last year, but I have been running an average of 8 miles everyday for the past 3 and a half weeks. I feel comfortable that I can finish strong, but I don’t know if I will be able to beat last year’s time. With my new shoes and some weight trainning I’ve been doing the past couple of weeks I can probably squeeze out a decent time.

Over the weekend I had some time to add movie covers onto each of the movie reviews I have covered on my blog. It adds a bit more of image content and it should help readers see what the movie is about from the DVD cover or movie poster. So future movie reviews will have a DVD cover or movie poster.

I was off from work yesterday, and I got a chance to run all my errands including getting some new running shoes. I got the Mizuno WaveRider 8. They’re much more comfortable than my last set which were Asics DS Racers. The DS Racers are extremely light and is categorized as a “Racing Flat” which concentrate on being a super light weight shoe with less support. The Mizunos has more support and feels light, but not as light as the DS. I also had some time yesterday to put in 10 miles into my new shoes and so far they work great.

A couple of days ago I was digging through my storage shed I came upon my comic book and cards collection that I thought I lost. Back in grade school I was a comic-book-reading geek. I loved the Marvel series and I also had multiple set card collection of them.

I just finished an 8 mile run and now my shoes have hit the 800 miles mark. Yup, you got that right, my pair of running shoes has a mileage of 800 miles. I’ve had these shoes for about a year, so it accounts to about an average of 2.2 miles a day or 15.4 miles a week. I would probably have hit this mark much sooner, but I’ve been very busy the past couple of months. Anyways, it’s time for new shoes!

I had a blast this weekend. I got to go to The Killer’s concert and see some bands play. The Killer’s are a fairly new band, at least for me it is, and their music isn’t the type I usually listen to, but nonetheless they were entertaining. Modest Mouse opened for The Killers and unfortunately I can’t say the same for them. Modest Mouse was really boring. They weren’t really interactive with the crowd at all. They played their music and took off. My friend and I attend the concert a bit early, who am I kidding, we were about 9 hours early before the Modest Mouse played. The wait was worth it as we got to drink beer and eat garlic fries and nachos.

Spending the whole day at the concert was a double-edge sword. I had fun, but it got me tired for the following morning which I had a 10K race. All the alcohol I drank at the concert didn’t help me much either. I’m dissapointed at my time that I got, but it was something I knew I was getting myself into. I got the Silicon Valley Half marathon coming up at the end of the month, so hopefully I can redeem myself.