Run 18

Treadmill - 1% slope
3 miles - 24:59

Run 17

Treadmill - 1% slope
3 miles - 24:39

Home again and a new fast time for 3mi!

Run 16 - at THE Gym in Vegas!

Treadmill - 1% slope
3 miles - 25:41

Kinda slow but I blame altitude, desert dryness, too much time in the pool that morning and the awesome steak dinner at TENDER the night before.

Run 15

Treadmill - 1% slope

3 miles - 24:48

Run 14

Treadmill - 1% slope

3 miles - 25:01

...so close!

Sir Paul McCartney at the new Cowboys Stadium in Arlington

We celebrated Amy's birthday a bit early tonight by heading to the palatial new Cowboys Stadium in Arlington to see Paul McCartney in concert. Although the sound in cavernous stadium is a bit muddy with lots of echoes, and the huge overhead display screen didn't fire up untl the final few songs (not sure if that was intentional or not), Amy was all smiles at the conclusion of the show. This will probably always rank up there as one of the top concerts I've ever been to. He is, after all, one-quarter of The Beatles!

Set List and comments:
1. "Drive My Car" (rocking start)
2. "Jet" (crazy spinning LED sign dude liked this one)
3. "Only Mama Knows"
4. "Flaming Pie"
5. "Got To Get You Into My Life" (ba ba ba bup ba baah...)
6. "Let Me Roll It"/"Foxy Lady" ending (a galloping Hendrix conclusion)
7. "Highway"
8. "All My Loving"
9. "The Long And Winding Road"
10. "My Love"
11. "Blackbird"
12. "Here Today"
13. "Dance Tonight"
14. "Calico Skies"
15. "Mrs Vanderbilt"
16 "It's So Easy" (perfect Buddy Holly cover really got things going)
17. "Eleanor Rigby"
18. "Sing The Changes"
19. "Band On The Run" (rocking!)
20. "Back In The USSR" (furious!)
21. "I'm Down"
22. "Something" (as poignant as can be with a ukulele intro)
23. "I've Got A Feeling"
24. "Paperback Writer" (this was awesome! it is my favorite signing in the shower song)
25. "A Day In The Life"/"Give Peace A Chance"
26. "Let It Be"
27. "Live And Let Die" (epic! full James Bond pyro and fireworks in effect)
28. "Hey Jude" (nah nah naaah...)

Encore 1
29. "Day Tripper" (ripping!)
30. "Lady Madonna" (rollicking!)
31. "I Saw Her Standing There" (maybe the most fun song of the night)

Encore 2
32. "Yesterday" (incredible)
33. "Helter Skelter" (insane!)
34. "Get Back" (seriously chugging)
35. "Sgt. Pepper's Reprise" (a perfect finale)

36. "The End" (well how else would you end it?)

Run 13

Treadmill - 1% slope

3 miles - 25:14

Run 12

Treadmill - 1% slope

5 miles - 44:55

Man that was a long haul, especially after running 3 miles the evening before. But I still got it done at less than 9 minutes per mile.

Run 11

Treadmill - 1% slope

3 miles - 25:30

Team Challenge - Half Marathon in Vegas!

Well it is official. We're signed up to run a the Rock-n-Roll Las Vegas half marathon in December to raise money for the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America (aka the charity for my illness).

What better way to spend our first anniversary than to run 13.1 miles. In Vegas. Around the Vegas sign and up and down the strip past all the big casinos and hotels. For the cause that hasn't the biggest impact on my life.

Fundraising will be tough but it'll be an awesome experience!

Run 10 - Ooops

I was about 16 miles into my run tonight when the treadmill suddenly came to a dead stop and the display went completely blank. A I catapulted forward toward the handles at the front of the machine, I noticed that the treadmills on either side of me had ground to halt as well with their users equally disturbed. I guess we must have blown a breaker or something as they were the only three machines that seemed to be having any difficulty.

Because of the interruption and the need t switch to a different treadmill halfway through my run, I'm not sure exactly how far I ran in total or how long it took. BY the pace I was going and what I remember the last time I looked at the distance covered on the first treadmill, I probably ran a bit over 3 miles in right around 26 minutes.

Run 9

Treadmill - 1% slope

3 miles - 25:34

Run 8 - full throttle in train-speak

Treadmill - 1% slope

4 miles - 35:44

A new personal best. Just a shade under 9 minutes per mile over that distance. I didn't give it much of a kick at the end so I could probably do it faster.

Then I slowed the treadmill down a bit and ran another half miles, finishing 4.5 miles in 39:33. That's about one-third of the way to a half-marathon!

Run 7

Treadmill - 1% slope

3 miles - 25:44

Run 6

Treadmill - 1% slope

3 miles - 25:53

Run 5

Treadmill - 1% slope

3 miles - 26:19

Run 4

Treadmill - 1% slope

4 miles - 36:26

I'm pretty sure this is the longest run I've ever done.