Our World

Month: January 2018

  • Facebook Post: 2018-01-07T16:00:17

    Realized a few things while watching the marathon today. Which was sort of strange after running it last year.
    1) I am not a good spectator. I wanted to reach out and slap everyone that stopped for a picture in front of the castle. Wanted to yell at them “move it! You will be sorry you stopped later in the race!!”
    2) It was still cold watching it.
    3) A lot of people are stupid when running races. They are looking for injuries.
    4) No, it’s not a good idea to stop while coming through the boardwalk and EPCOT to pick up a margarita to cross the finish line with.
    5) No the rodent at the finish line does not want a drink, but the race announcer will gladly help you part with the drink.
    6) The Disney Marathon is something to do once.
    7) People have no etiquette anymore.

  • Facebook Post: 2018-01-07T14:59:25

    We are finally home. Jesse had a good race, took care of one item from the bucket list without kicking said bucket. Now it’s time for some rest and recovery. He has a busy half marathon schedule for the next year.

    Thank you for all the support!
    His time appears to have been 6:06:40 which was better than any of his training runs.

  • Facebook Post: 2018-01-07T06:13:23

    https://livetrack.garmin.com/session/70146c49-cafa-4ce9-9ceb-108981e3bf56/token/34383DF70CC26FE84251CBF8EC6E71

    @[1294803598:2048:Jesse Pannell] live track

  • Facebook Post: 2018-01-07T02:54:37

    It’s 2:45am and Jesse just left hotel room to catch bus to start at Epcot. I will follow in a little bit so that I can get up to the Magic Kingdom to see him come through the castle. Official start time is 5:30am

  • Facebook Post: 2018-01-06T08:16:25

    My Garmin is starting to have issues. Considering if it’s time to replace and upgrade. Things a fitness tracker has to have for me:
    1. Heart rate monitoring during rest and workouts (I am trying to find one that actually monitors while swimming)
    2. Multi-sport
    3. Must be able to sync to trainingpeaks.com
    4. Must not be so big that it interferes or “catches” on the water while swimming – I am slow enough, don’t need help.
    5. Decent battery life
    6. MUST have GPS capability during open water swimming

    Anyone?

  • Facebook Post: 2018-01-06T07:58:49

    http://www.dognation.us/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/earagra.jpg

  • Facebook Post: 2018-01-05T20:24:19

    Wow. I am not sure how often people do this but every once in a while take a look at your message requests (you know the ones that do not show up unless you click on them). Someone I went to high school with 34 years ago left me a message today. It is the first classmate that has ever reached out to see how I am doing. Making friends and being accepted in HS was not easy for me. Was sort of a loaner and target at times. And I was just thinking about some of the guys this morning while I was in the pool.

    Yes, I did go for a very short swim this morning. Before anyone yells at me, it was a pitifully short swim. Totally in line with me being out of the hospital for just 2 days. Totally short, and pitifully slow.

  • Facebook Post: 2018-01-04T19:23:22

    Yup, Jim Catorie from the weather channel was in Rockport, MA today and that means the storm was bad.

  • Facebook Post: 2018-01-04T18:23:20

    Peanut just stepped on Ranger’s head. Ranger was not pleased.

    Whole story: I covered Ranger with a blanket. Peanut got up and went to go lay down on blanket. I said “STOP!” and she stepped on his head. He would not have been happy if she had laid down on him. Nope nope nope. That would have been a war.

  • Facebook Post: 2018-01-04T17:26:16

    As we start 2018 – just a reminder. I do not do well with pictures of intentionally injured animals. Whatever cause people want me to sign up for or sign a petition for the one with a severely injured or hurt animal always gets the person who posted it unfriended so I do not need to look at other pictures like it. Some things you can not unsee.