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Chicago Marathon recap

Ran the Chicago Marathon this past Sunday. Finished in 4 hours, 58 minutes and 54 seconds. It was a good race and I was running with a friend who was raising money for the Make-a-Wish Foundation so it was a lot of fun just running together and encouraging one another during the race.

Overall, I felt pretty good during the race. Mile 14-15 was probably one of the most painful miles I’ve ever done but after that, I felt the pace we kept up was comfortable. Thankfully my IT band didn’t hurt at all during the race and cardio-wise I was fine. I think my only struggle was that I wasn’t used to the extreme foot/quad fatigue you would experience after mile 20 so it took a little to get used to but overall, the last 6 miles weren’t too bad besides the heat which was pretty brutal (80+ degrees fahrenheit!). It was a great experience and I’m really glad I got to participate in the event!

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10/10/10

I would have to say the biggest reason I decided to train for and run the Chicago marathon was because it was on 10/10/10. I was on my way to the Chicago airport for my study abroad trip to China this past March when I got a text or call from someone about the Chicago marathon and they noted that it was on 10/10/10… when I heard that, I was sold. I mean, I ran cross-country and track in junior high and high school, so the idea of training more miles a week for a longer event didn’t seem to bad. Also, 10/10/10 is just fun to say, when people ask, it’s always nice to say “it’s on 10/10/10.”

I haven’t run a marathon before so I’m not sure what to expect but I am confident that if my IT band doesn’t hurt during the race (hopefully it’s fully healed by now), I’ll be fine and I might be able to do somewhat decent near the end. I’ll start pretty slow and see how I do as the race progresses.

I got my marathon gear all ready and I head for Chicago tomorrow morning. It’s going to be quite the weekend because the day after the marathon, I’ll have an all-day interview and then I have a final the following day. Thursday afternoon at 4:15 PM will be a good day when I’m done with my last final for module 1!

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October update…

It’s October! Module 1 is just about done with finals coming up next week. The Chicago Marathon is coming up this Sunday in which I’m super excited but a little worried since I hurt my IT band on an 11-miler a few weeks ago and I’ve been taking it easy for a few weeks now. However, that hasn’t stopped my Ultimate Frisbee binges in which I have 2 Intramural Ultimate Frisbee matches this week. Team Krannert vs. The Aero Engineers!

Interviews are underway also and definitely looking forward to interviewing with more marketing/consulting companies. It’s been pretty busy the last few weeks and I’ve been desperately trying to keep up with my RSS reader but SEO bloggers blog 4-5 times a day and when you follow 25 blogs, it’s hard to keep up with all the articles. So besides skimming through Football blogs, Investing blogs (still kicking myself for selling NFLX at $129 when I got in at $114), and Technology Blogs, I try to read at least 10-15 good SEO articles a week.

… Watched “The Social Network” yesterday and it was awesome. I really enjoyed it. The guy who played Mark Zuckerberg did a fantastic job. I saw “The Town” last Friday and alas I fell asleep through part of it. I thought it was good early on but it kinda dragged in the middle.

More updates later… time to work on another marketing proposal for my GA!

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Amazing! New way of text messaging!

I love technology and I love how there are so many innovative companies. I have to admit though, often when something comes out that’s pretty innovative, more often than not you might think to yourself, “it’s about time someone came out with something like that.”

I have to say that Swype is pretty amazing though and the idea is so simple but in my opinion super innovative. I’ve never been really good at texting, even with my iPhone since I still don’t hit the right keys often with the touch screen but with this, I think it just changes the entire landscape of texting. It’s like how much better T-9 was for regular phones than the standard way of texting back in the day.