Don't Try This At Home

Its that time of year again. Time to shave my beard. I was going to grow it out but somebody suggested that my 10K was slow because of all the wind resistance my whiskers created so I decided then and there to remove both of them...

can't say I feel any faster now...

Can't believe there are only 16 more days to the Edmonton 10K!

510 Seconds

40 minutes is 2400 seconds. That is how fast I want to run 10k. Right now it taks me 48 minutes 30 seconds. That's 2910 seconds. I need to run each kilometer 51 seconds faster. It sounds so easy! Here is an update of my training as found on nike + website.

http://nikeplus.nike.com/nikeplus/?l=runners,runs,14554880

Real Estate Investing

Of course, it isn't a trip to the Big Island without taking a helicopter tour over the volcano. We were lucky to have 4 active vents to fly over. The picture shows a vent that is about 200 yards across. The lava is about 1000 degrees and created heat waves which could be felt inside the chopper. The helicopter is equipped with cameras to take footage of your flight. There is also an on-board camera to occassionally show the passengers inside the chopper during the flight. One of the other passengers threw up...right when the on-board camera was filming. Chicken salad croissant, $5. Helicopter tour of the volcano, $250. DVD footage of you hacking up the chicken salad croissant during your helicopter tour...priceless. (Actually, the DVD was an extra $40 and one of the other passengers bought it...)

Just relax.

I'm in Hawaii where its warm and quiet. The conference is going well. Today was the helicopter tour of the volcanoes. We flew over four lava flows and a couple of lava fountains. Like the sign says, "just relax!"