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So I attempted the Vermont 50 mile over the weekend. I had been training since May, but a last-minute change of course meant that I had not trained on enough hills. A weekend rain deluge also made for crazy slippery and muddy conditions. The good news is that I can honestly say that I did my best, but the bad news is that the effort was insufficient to finish. The race staff pulled me off the course at mile 27 as my pace had fallen below the pace necessary to finish in 12h. Next time, I guess.

I have this on PDF on my palm pilot and have read the first four chapters.

12. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
13. A Generative Theory of Tonal Music (in progress)
14. Nineteen Minutes (in progress)
15. Dynamical Cognitive Science (in progress)
16. Advice to a Young Investigator (in progress)

I’ve started by reading the books on my shelf that don’t actually belong to me. I’ve done 2.5. About 65% of my own books I have not read. Going to be a long job.

Bought the collection with a couple of friends. Have 2/6 volumes ripped to my drive. LOVE it so far!

6. Getting Things Done
7. How to Be Happy
8. The Time Traveler’s Wife
9. Soul Music (in progress)
10. This is your brain on music (in progress)
11. The art of happiness (in progress)

1. Goals! (Brian Tracy)
2. The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
3. Guns Germs and Steel (Jared Diamond)
4. Introduction to Information Theory (in progress)
5. Middlesex (Jeffery Euginides)
6. Getting Things Done (in progress)

Still progressing on the downloading, about 750 tracks. I have 3 complete volumes (1,2 and 6). Progress on finding more has been slow, and I might resort to buying the more cost-effective complete works from Amazon.

My mother’s Christmas gift to me was the “get-a-life” package of 3 concerts playing in my area that she knew I would like. I attended the third on Saturday night.

Natalia Zuckerman, the opening act, blew my mind with her hung-fu guitar stylings, and I want to go see her at Passim this Friday.

Girlyman is playing at Passim also in a couple of weeks, and I want to get Carbonleaf tickets for the 31st.

1. Goals! (Brian Tracy)
2. The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
3. Guns Germs and Steel (Jared Diamond)
4. Introduction to Information Theory (in progress)
5. Middlesex (in progress)

My last marathon was in 2003 (4:20:36). It’s going to be some work to get to 3:30, but I’ve been able to maintain the pace on the treadmill consistently for hour intervals.

At this point, I need to:
1. Find a race and sign up so that I have a tangible motivation for increasing my training.
2. Add more long runs into the routine. I’ve rarely gone over the 2 hour mark for months.

I started downloading this yesterday, and have ~200 tracks. Out of excitement, I’m listening to them on shuffle, but when I have full works, I can’t wait to explore them all!