On Memorial Day, May25th, I hiked up Mount Mansfield with Chantal. I’ve done some hiking before in my life, long long ago before I was a type 1 diabetic I went to Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico and backpacked in the Cimmaron Mountains. I’ve always enjoyed walking, although there have been periods of time [...]
I bled my fingers 7 times yesterday. At 5:30 AM I woke up and my blood sugar was 87 mg/dL. I would also test at 8:19 AM, 10:38 AM, 1:53 PM, 3:25 PM, 8:19 PM and 9:30 PM as I got near bedtime. I had one persistent bleeder out of all those, the late morning [...]
I had a couple of good race photos taken of me back at the half-marathon last year. The photographer got me from the side though, I was spotted late. Also he didn’t have the greatest spot to take the photos from, he was back in the stands. The ones taken by the photography company weren’t [...]
08_20_2008 — stray sunflower
Originally uploaded by scratchtype1
I don’t how it got where it did, it was not planted by anybody. It’s all by its lonesome without any company of other sunflowers. So I took its picture.
I dreamed last night I was in a half-grown cornfield and off to the side, tractor tires had been abandoned and some were half-buried by mud. I was thinking I should figure out a way to extract one of them and get it home so I’d have a big tire I could flip and beat [...]
Little bit strange, I don’t know, interesting. A kind of aggregate blogging news coverage thingy. A couple of my pictures on Flickr got requested to be used with a news story about safe syringe exchanges in Ottawa, Canada, so I said okay.
Story here
I’ve done some runs that I labeled fartleks before in the running log — most of them were a result of me ending up cranking up to a somewhat faster pace on an easy run and feeling like I couldn’t call them easy but couldn’t call them tempo either. As I was pondering what to [...]
08_05_2008 — lantus syringe thigh med
Originally uploaded by scratchtype1
I’ve stuck a syringe in me at least once a day for over 23 years. Here’s one after pinching up a roll of fat on the front of my left thigh, just sticking out of me. After I put the camera down, I’d push the [...]
08_01_2008 — caterpillar feasting area
Originally uploaded by scratchtype1
I’m definitely trying to keep my eyes open for photo opportunities. Funny, I saw this today and almost just kept going, then I slapped myself upside the head and said, “Take it!”
Bleah. Nothing inspiring about today’s run, it was just get-em-done miles in temps of 74 degrees with 75% humidity. But I should be somewhat happy, after only running 10 miles in the first 14 days of July, I ran 36 miles over the last 17 days and feel like I’m back on track again.
I recently [...]
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