TAGGED

Yesterday was an easy day between workout days. I took advantage of not “having” to run in the morning and biked around Hyland Park. I used my odometer and spray painted an “X” every half mile. From now on, any time I run in the park I’ll be able to blog about every half-mile split, down to the 100th of a second. Stay tuned…

In the evening I jumped on the treadmill for an easy 5 miles at 8:30 pace. Actually, I started around 9:30 pace and dropped down to 8:00 pace at the end. Meanwhile, I was watching the Twins play long-ball against the hated White Sox. We’re still hot and have moved to within 2 games of the Wild Card spot. I know you’re all curious about Joe Mauer, since I mentioned him recently. He’s cooled off a little lately and is “only” hitting .380.

Alright, I’ve been tagged by Run Faster Master and I thought I’d play along.

4 Jobs I have had
* Janitor at a nursing home
* Stock boy at a grocery store – 10 PM to 6 AM
* Like Running Rabbit, one summer I was a “nanny” for 3 boys – taking them to the pool, the country club, their practices, and playing video games with them. I was supposed to have them study a little bit every day. Yeah, like that happened.
* Between getting out of the navy and college starting, I was on unemployment. One of the conditions was you had to be actively looking for work. Another was you had to accept the work that came along. I spent 1 week digging an 18” hole around existing telephone poles and wrapping them with a chemically treated paper to help them from rotting. It was hot, sticky, buggy, manual labor through thick forest at times. I remember the foreman telling me I could be a foreman too some day. I guess I never lived up to my potential.

4 Movies I watch over and over
* Good Will Hunting
* The Usual Suspects
* Tombstone
* Beautiful Mind

4 Places I have lived
* Turkey
* Japan
* Joliet, IL
* Ashland, WI

4 Television Shows I watch
* CSI – the original
* Survivor
* Criminal Minds
* How I Met Your Mother

4 Places I have been on vacation
* Portland, OR (Mt. St. Helens, Astoria, Coos Bay, Eugene-loop)
* Seattle
* New York City
* Door County, WI

4 Websites I visit everyday
* Google Reader (my bloglines)
* Simon Says…Run
* Hillrunner.com
* Race results (like onlineraceresults.com, raceberryjam.com, etc)

4 Favorite Foods
* Pasta, pasta, pasta
* Pizza
* Cereal
* Sandwiches

4 Favorite Bands/Music
* Neil Young
* Wilco
* Led Zeppelin
* Minnesota Bands (Jayhawks, Soul Asylum, Gear Daddies, Replacements, Tina and the B-sides, Twin City Playboys, etc.)

I’ll tag Duncan, Kevin Beck, Scott Douglas and Kilgore (insert big-tooth-eyes-closed-laughing emoticon here).

Quote of the day – Poor Lasse, I assume he didn’t have an iPod, GPS, HRM, email, x-box, etc. either;

“No TV, no radio, no newspapers, not even a decent road; but I do not need any of them. Electic light we got here only last year.” – Lasse Viren on his training cabin in Lapland