paul reed

BAA Half Marathon (Boston, MA)
October 12, 2008 at 8:00am

Place/Tot  Div/Tot  Div    Guntime  Nettime  Pace  Ag  Race#
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278/3706   71/626   M3439  -:--:--  1:34:25  7:12  37  3810

This year I ran RtB with 11 colleagues from Memento. I ran legs 3 (3.8 miles), 15 (8.2 miles) and 27 (8.6 miles). We had a blast!

Place No. Team Name              Div/Tot  Div              Final    Pace
===== ========================== ======== ================ ======== =====
253   54  Memento                116/167  Mixed Open       30:56:15  8:52

Yankee Homecoming 10 Miler (Newburyport, MA)
July 29, 2008 at 6:35pm

Place/Tot  Div/Tot  Div    Guntime  Nettime  Pace  Ag  Race#
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280/1464   25/119   M3539  1:11:02  -:--:--  7:07  37  739

Marathon Sports 5 Miler (Weston, MA)
July 17, 2008 at 7:00pm

Place/Tot  Div/Tot  Div    Guntime  Nettime  Pace  Ag  Race#
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69/703     20/96    M3039  0:32:32  -:--:--  6:38  37  558

(course was actually 4.9 miles …)

Boston Volvo Thanksgiving Day Race (Brighton, MA)
November 22, 2007 at 9:00am

Place/Tot  Div/Tot  Div    Guntime  Nettime  Pace  Ag  Race#
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49/731     5/-      M3544  0:20:18  -:--:--  6:33  36  777

Damp and foggy. Good running weather. Went out too fast, but pulled it back towards the end.

Some useful tips here, although nothing particularly new. Always good to see things in black and white; reminds you how important regaining perspective can be.

An intriguing view of where the world of information and media could go by the year 2014.

• I saw MailboxMap a few months ago; a great mashups that helps you locate USPS mail boxes and post offices, and lists the pickup times. Since I know the details for most of the mail boxes near where I live it was interesting but not immediately useful. However, the other day I in a new part of town and needed a post box with an early pickup. Voila, MailboxMap comes to the rescue!
• BestParking.com finds daily and monthly parking in Boston, New York or Philadelphia.
• Walk Score rates neighborhoods for their walk-ability based on proximity to grocery stores, restaurants, movie theaters, schools, libraries, etc. Seems more useful for towns or suburbs than living here in Boston (which rates a near perfect 98).

A great article on how the more stuff you have, the more it begins to own you:

I have too much stuff. Most people in America do. In fact, the poorer people are, the more stuff they seem to have. Hardly anyone is so poor that they can’t afford a front yard full of old cars.

• National Priorities Project - Interactive Tax Chart
  Find out how your tax money gets spent on the various government programs.
  (tags: money taxes)