Happy Holidays

I write this a couple of days after Christmas and hope that everyone had a good holiday. I’ve had a week off from school and am just now starting to feel recovered and have been thinking about getting going on several projects. Some of them are related to school and others are more for fun.

I’ve gone on my long runs with another guy training for a marathon that last two Sundays and I’ve done well on the 10 mile run last week and we did the 11 mile run today in 1:39 (actually 11.5 miles). That’s about 7 mph average which is good enough for a 3:45 marathon pace. Of course, that’s assuming constant speed to the end which is unlikely. Nonetheless, I’m starting to think I could do a marathon. He’s training for one here in early March and I’ve decided I’ll try it with him. Should be interesting and different from my previous bike race or triathlon training. I’ll continue with biking and swimming of course, but the focus will shift to distance running. It should be good for me as long as I stay away from injuries. So far so good on these last two.

At school, I’m co-chairing the lead of the Far East Music Festival this year which means I have a thousand little details to coordinate and take care of before the week of the event (the last week in April). I’ll be happy when I can tie up all the loose ends from that project when we get to May.

At home, I’m trying to catch up on my back log of photo editing from the last few events like the Kyoto trip in November. I’ve also finally gotten all my printer settings dialed in on the new Epson 3880 and my two favorite papers. Upgrading to Snow Leopard was a hiccup in the process, but now everything seems to be working out well and I’ll start churning out some of my newer photos to put up around the house. I’m also firing up a new photo-blog that I’ll post my better shots on to share via the web. This blog is a little different focus so I’ll publish the photo blog at another location. Check back for the link when I get it done.

New Year’s Eve is just around the corner and I hope the new year brings health to everyone. I intend to be more frequent about updating this blog as well as my new photo blog. After living here a couple of years it’s difficult to remember that what seems normal to me will likely still be interesting to people who don’t live here.

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