As I write this, I’m some 36,000 feet over Kansas, heading into Colorado. I’m on my way to San Francisco, a waypoint on my voyage to Sydney. While there, I’ll be presenting at my employer’s security conference on a variety of topics, as well as meeting with clients. After a week – mostly work, although I’ve managed to coordinate my schedule so I can spend the weekend in Sydney – I’ll head to Mumbai, via a very brief stop in Singapore. Once there, I’ll do it all again, then continue on to Newark, then back home. A trip around the …
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And it’s over, another year in the books. I finished the 46th annual Credit Union Cherry Blossom Race in 1:50:35. That’s a little bit over a minute faster than my first run of the race, in 2016, and quite a bit slower than last year’s pace. Those of you who’ve been following along will know that I didn’t achieve my goal — at least, not my pace goal. But I did finish, coming in 12,557th out of a field of 16,659. Among men, I was 5,776th out of 6,791. And in my Division (M55-59), I was 331st out of 400. …
Technology can be a somewhat divisive topic for runners. On the one hand, there are those who — quite properly — celebrate the fact that if you want to be a runner, all you need to do is start running. I’d argue a well-fitting pair of shoes is pretty important to the process, but you don’t **need** to go out and buy lots of (often expensive) equipment to get in the game. You just run. And that’s a good thing. At the other end of the spectrum, running provides the opportunity to totally geek out with technology you might not …