| Location: Mesa,AZ,USA Member Since: May 12, 2008 Gender: Male Goal Type: Other Running Accomplishments: I started running again in 2007 after 14 years of not running.
Mile - 4:59 (high school 1992), 5:57 (9/21/2010 ARR Open Mile)
2 mile - 11:10 (high school 1992)
5k - 21:54 (11/18/2010 Tempe Road Runners 5k)
10k - 48:29 (5/9/2009 Race for Hospice)
Unofficial 10k - 47:11 (1/27/2011 Red Mountain Park)
1/2 marathon - 1:49:00 (4/4/2009 Havasu Half)
Marathon - 4:33:09 (11/21/2009 Mesquite Marathon) Short-Term Running Goals: Run a half marathon in under two hours.
Run a marathon in close to 4 hours. Long-Term Running Goals: Stay healthy long enough to live through the millenium. Personal: I am married and have six kids.
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Bloggers I've met in real life: 1MileToGo, Aaron Kennard, Andrea North, Arizona Desert Monsoon, auntieem, Bec, Ben, Benjamin, Bonnie, Camille, Cari, Collin Anderson, David Holt, Doone, Eight Kid Mom, Erico, Flatlander, Gary, Jake Krong, JamesW, Jose, Josse, Julieesplin, Jun, Kelli, Kerri, KP, Kyle Dion, Lightitup, Little Bad Legs, Lybi, Marthon Dreamer, M, Mary Ann Schauerhamer, Misty, Nan, Peds Endo Doc, Rachelle, RAD, Rhett, Riley Cook, Rossy, runningafterbabies, Sasha, Scott Hughes, Scott (Kelli's husband), Scott Wesemann, Slow Joe, Spencer Simpson, Stephen, Steve Piccolo, Susie, The Rookie, Toby, Tracy, Twinkies, TylerS, Walter Favorite Blogs: |
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| | I woke up at 4am and started running at 5am. Since it was so early, the construction crew hadn't arrived yet, and I decided to do 2 loops. I've been playing Scrabble with Tracy and I know that I have an 8 letter word I can play (there are little hints you can use), but I haven't been able to figure it out. There is a word strength meter that you can purchase. There are 10 bars on the meter. If you don't purchase it, it only shows your 4 of the bars. So, for example, if with your letters the best move on the board is a 40 point point word, and you place a word that is 20 points on the board, the meter will go up to 5. But if you haven't purchased it, you'll only see it go up to 4, so you don't really know if 20 points is the best word, or if there's a real high scoring bingo. If you use all 7 letters on your rack, you get a bingo, which is a 50 point bonus. So my trick is to put a word on the board somewhere that is worth 7 points. If the word strength meter only goes up to one, I know there is a word on the board that is approximately 10 times higher than 7, which is more than likely a bingo. There's another hint you can use if you have enough coins (diamonds actually) saved up. This hint highlights every available tile on the board where you can put one of your letters to form a word. So, I knew I had a bingo somewhere and I used the "binoculars" hint. Since it was so late in the game, I could tell that the only place a bingo would fit was either on an L or an A. Since I only had two vowels on my rack, I figured it was probably the A. Scrabble is 70% math, 20% vocabulary, and 10% another word that I can't think of at the moment. I usually win, but Tracy has beaten me more times that I'd like to admit. I'm too competitive. The letters were N U C L E R S and probably A. So nuclear is a word, but not nuclears. Unclear is a word, but not unclears. As I was running I kept shuffling around the letters in my head.
When I got to Brown I saw doberman lady again. I was able to get through the fence before she did. When I got half way between Brown and Adobe I thought of a couple of words I would like to try; secularn and reclanus. Reclanus. That's a good one. I stopped and opened the Scrabble app. But it was taking too long to load and I was afraid doberman lady and her dobermans would catch up to me. So I exited out and continued running. There were a lot of dog walkers out this early. I didn't want to stop while I saw someone with a dog. It wasn't until I was heading north again north of University that I finally stopped to try my words. Neither of them worked.
Well, that was yesterday. Today I finally gave up and hoped that I would get some better letters to make an obvious bingo. Tracy has a slight lead that I won't be able to catch her unless I get a bingo. But, as I said, it was late in the game, and I didn't realize there weren't any more letters left. So she's going to win. Anyway, the word was LUCRANES. Now I will go crawl up in the fetal position and cry for a while.
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