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I'm off to Florida shortly. We have an early flight but arrive before noon with a layover in Cleveland. Our return flights next Monday night will take us through Philadelphia.

We're going in part to announce something called "5 Simple Keys" as well as to exhibit at the PGA Merchandise Show. I'll have more to say about 5SK in coming weeks and months, because it will be and has been a big part of my professional life.

But for now, despite the weirdly warm weather we've had in Erie, I'm looking forward to getting to Florida. Highs for the week are in the 70s. I've packed two pair of running shoes and will run at least a mile a day while I'm down there, despite standing and walking around the Orange County Convention Center three days straight.

It will be great to meet up with some people I've only talked to on Twitter, as well as some people I've previously met but have only talked to online since the last time we met.

Following up on yesterday's post…

It's not as funny.

This is funny. Not incredibly funny, but worth a chuckle.

I don't see running without shoes, personally, but I do appreciate running in the VFFs I picked up recently in order to train some better form and will continue, I believe, running in somewhat minimalist shoes for quite ahwile.

I don't understand the kerfuffle over the iBooks Author EULA.

Apple is not claiming rights to your text or illustrations.

They're simply claiming that if you use their authoring tool to put together an interactive book, you must either give it away free or sell it via the iBookstore.

If you want to use another authoring tool to sell your book on Amazon, the Kindle, ePub, whatever.

Pretending that the EULA states anything other than that - like that Apple owns the "content" or the actual words or requires you to sell those words only via their store - is stupid, preposterous, and dishonest.

Of course, there are saner perspectives as well.

I'll keep this as short as I can.

I've posted before on running form. During Couch to 5K training I actually tried to run almost exclusively on my forefoot, which resulted in straining my calves enough that I shut it down for 10 days and repeated the fifth week when I returned.

In retrospect I think I was overdoing it. I was running so far on the forefoot that my heel almost never came down. That put tremendous strain on my calf muscles to keep the heel off the ground with 2-3x the force of body weight pushing down. Ouch. No wonder my calves got sore.

After coming back and completing C25K, I told myself not to worry about form. That I'd work on it piecemeal.

When I recorded myself on high-speed video after a recent one-mile run around the neighborhood, suffice to say I saw the need to begin integrating some form training right away:

Blech.

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The 1BandID I ordered after learning my blood type and first talked about on December 26 has arrived.

It's just about exactly as I imagined, and it fits comfortably on my watch band, so I'm likely never to run without it - even indoors at the Y where my ID is likely to be in a locker right downstairs. I've noticed no differences in terms of comfort or fit, and the color is bright enough to attract attention should someone plow into me with their car and render me unconscious or a babbling idiot or something.

You can save $2 on a 1BandID if you use the coupon code "erik93761" at checkout. With free shipping that comes to $17.99. Not bad for the peace of mind it offers. I get nothing out of it, but I used someone else's coupon code and I'm passing on the savings. With that $2, you can buy, uhhh, a bottle of water for after your run.

I'm opposed to SOPA/PIPA because the bill will do next to nothing to infringe piracy but has the potential to have way, way too much negative consequences. Little upside, big downside.

Congress does not understand the Internet.

I don't know how but I stumbled upon this post which talks about how a woman's accidental slip ended a period of time during which she'd run at least one mile for 21,212 (hey, nice palindrome number!) consecutively.

That article also mentioned that if you make it to a year running a mile a day minimum (I'm calling it #dailymileminimum), you can join one of only about 400 runners. Only 400!

While troubleshooting an issue for a customer, I launched Console and noticed a message being repeated every two seconds:

1/15/12 8:17:54.000 am kernel: USBF: 768663.812 AppleUSBEHCI[0x137c6000]::Found a transaction past the completion deadline on bus 0xfd, timing out! (Addr: 4, EP: 1)
1/15/12 8:17:56.000 am kernel: USBF: 768665.811 AppleUSBEHCI[0x137c6000]::Found a transaction past the completion deadline on bus 0xfd, timing out! (Addr: 4, EP: 1)
1/15/12 8:17:58.000 am kernel: USBF: 768667.811 AppleUSBEHCI[0x137c6000]::Found a transaction past the completion deadline on bus 0xfd, timing out! (Addr: 4, EP: 1)
1/15/12 8:18:00.000 am kernel: USBF: 768669.812 AppleUSBEHCI[0x137c6000]::Found a transaction past the completion deadline on bus 0xfd, timing out! (Addr: 4, EP: 1)
1/15/12 8:18:02.000 am kernel: USBF: 768671.812 AppleUSBEHCI[0x137c6000]::Found a transaction past the completion deadline on bus 0xfd, timing out! (Addr: 4, EP: 1)
1/15/12 8:18:04.000 am kernel: USBF: 768673.812 AppleUSBEHCI[0x137c6000]::Found a transaction past the completion deadline on bus 0xfd, timing out! (Addr: 4, EP: 1)

Some quick research with System Profiler led me to discover that it was the Garmin USB ANT+ Stick: System Profiler 1 (Bus 0xfd), System Profiler 2 (Address 4 is ANT+ Stick)

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Predictably, Meb Keflezighi won in 2:09:08, with Ryan Hall at 2:09:30 and Abdi Abdirahman at 2:09:47. Their ages are 36, 29, and 33.

The runners from Team USA Minnesota finished as follows:

Andrew Carlson took 6th at 2:11:24.
Jason Lehmkule in 18th at 2:14:35.
Matt Gabrielson and Josh Moen either quit or didn't start.

Just to put into perspective how fast these guys are running, and rounding up to 2h10m pace, that's one mile every 4.96 minutes, or nearly 12.1 MPH. Running. For 26 miles 385 yards. I'm not sure I could run that fast for 30 seconds.

I agree with John - the mute switch is fine the way it is. Only alarms can trigger audible cues (as they should), and everything else is silenced. If you want a silent phone, turn it off.

So says LifeHacker. That's my typical usage pattern, and based on Apple's advice, I've been running batteries in my MacBook Air and iPhone to 0% once a month before recharging.

But, I did pick up one of the Belkin Conserve outlets, because I always plug my phone in at night when I sleep, so I'll just cut off the charge after half an hour or something now. I randomly plug the phone in to my computer during some days as well.

Stephen Fry from WikiQuote:

Swearing is a really important part of one's life. It would be impossible to imagine going through life without swearing and without enjoying swearing… There used to be mad, silly, prissy people who used to say swearing was a sign of a poor vocabulary - such utter nonsense. The people I know who swear the most tend to have the widest vocabularies and the kind of person who says swearing is a sign of a poor vocabulary usually have a pretty poor vocabulary themselves… The sort of twee person who thinks swearing is in any way a sign of a lack of education or a lack of verbal interest or - is just a fucking lunatic… I haven't met anybody who's truly shocked at swearing, really, they're only shocked on behalf of other people. Well, you know, that's preposterous… or they say 'it's not necessary'. As if that should stop one doing it! It's not necessary to have coloured socks, it's not necessary for this cushion to be here, but is anyone going to write in and say 'I was shocked to see that cushion there, it really wasn't necessary'? No, things not being necessary is what makes life interesting - the little extras in life.

I can go with that.

Quite funny. As is this from Mark Remy at RW Daily.

Oh, and check out this entry on Merrell's first running shoe in the "Barefoot" line.