San Francisco Half Marathon

I run the San Francisco half marathon in August.

That was not a race for me but just a part of my training. However, it was a really nice and memorable run. As I planed, I spent 2 hours and 30 minutes to run 13 miles. Therefore, it was a kind of slow and easy run (Although it was a very long run for me). I crossed the golden gate bridge, which was bit covered with fog, along with many other runners. It was very beautiful and looked different from the one I usually see from a car.

It was good that I actually did not walk at least and completed 13 miles. It was an accomplishment for me. I decide to run the full San Francisco marathon next year.

Google Chrome

I was traveling a lot in August. I went to Philadelphia, Aspen, Boston and Phoenix. Therefore, I did not have time to write this blog last month, but now I am back.

Google is going to release their first web browser, Google Chrome, tomorrow (15 min later). I will download their web browser as soon as possible.

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I like the movie star wars very much.  

Shazam, new way to dicover music.

I finally upgrade my iPhone to ver 2.0. and I am loving this upgrade. As you know, iPhone2.0 can download many software which run on iPhone. I fond that one of the free software for iPhone2.0, called Shazam, is awsome.

Shazam will identify music for you. For instance, when you like a song played on a radio, you let iPhone record the the song for 10 seconds then the Shazam will automatically identify the music (titile, artist and an album record the song). The beauty of this software is that once you identify the music, you can directly buy the song through iTune by pushing one button.

A year ago, identifying a song played on a radio was difficut task. However, it is now a very easy task with a great help from iPhone and Shazam.

Vegan cheese alternative

Today, I was looking for an vegan alternative of cheese. I have eaten vegan pizza which had melted cheese alternative on top. It tasted like more or less cheese.

After google search, I found that a product called vegan gourmet cheese alternative might be the one I ate. I will find this alternative in the city, because I want to eat a piece of toast with melted cheese on.

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How to keep stamina during weight loss phase.

At the beginning of this year, I planed to loose 30 lbs before a full marathon on December. Thus I supposed to loose 3 lbs per month. However, since I am running very seriously these days, I lost almost 9 lbs last month.

This is not good at all. If you loose weight too fast, your body will loose its stamina. In fact, this month, I am having trouble in running long distance without walking breaks. My stamina was significantly reduced last month. Indeed, I think I experienced weak depression due to too rapid body weight loss.

Of course, when it comes to running, the lighter body weight the better. However, I cannot loose stamina or endurance to prepare for a marathon. It becomes my current important task to figure out how to reduce my body weight without reducing the stamina. At least, I decide not to loose more than 4 lbs per month from now on.

Blogging again

I was very busy last month, and also I was not in a good mood. But it is the time to change my mood, so I start blogging again. I will write as frequently as possible from now on.

3G iPhone

Steve Jobs announced a new iPhone, called 3G iPhone, in his key note speech. This new iPhone has faster network connection, build in GPS, and better synchronizing functions with PC or Mac. I like this new iPhone because it is cheap, $199. I will buy this new iPhone as soon as they release it.

However, pity feeling is that our current iPhones are still young, one or two years old, and we have to send them to graves.... Since the technology develops very fast, we have to sacrifice many things to catch up with it.

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Sunset on the Mars. The sun looks much smaller on the Mars.

The picture is from NASA