Help! I've fallen and I can't get up!

Yesterday morning, the freezing rain decided to thwart my plans of running every other day. I took a bit of a spill (not while running, thank goodness) and was a bit sore from it this morning. I'll resume running on Friday...

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I'm finally back!

This morning was my first run in quite some time. I only did about half a block before my difficulty breathing brought me to a brisk walk, but we've gotta start somewhere when we've lapsed for so long. I plan on running every other day (through the week) until my breathing comes more naturally. Then, I plan to step up to 5 or 6 days per week. I hope to be doing that by February. And yes, wintery weather does suck for a beginning runner. But again, we've gotta start somewhere...

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Not dead yet!

Just a quick update to let everyone know that I'm not dead yet. Life has been busy the past year, and I managed to get out of the running habit. I am correcting this, so updates will be forth-coming soon. Also, because of reliability issues, I've moved this blog over to Google from my server at home. I plan on moving my domains completely, but that's a lot of stuff.

Right around 5K

For the past couple of weeks, I've been doing 3 or 4 runs per week instead of my target goal of 6. But on the positive side, I managed to do a little longer run than I normally do during the week. I did 6 laps on a .54 mile track, so that works out just over the 5K mark. 5K is what? About 3.1mi? And I did right around 3.25 miles. I'm not sure how my time was, because I don't really keep score there yet, but I think it probably sucked. So while I could physically complete a 5K, I'm not going attempt the upcoming one. There's just not enough time to work on my pace before then. I really wish I were further along than I am, distance-wise, but I'll probably immediately be able to double it once I finally get this breathing thing figured out.



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Deep focus

In preparation for shooting the documentary that will eventually accompany this blog and a successful marathon run, I have been learning a little bit about film making. One of the things that I've learned is that with traditional film, there's typically one object (or character, or group) in a scene which has focus, while the rest of the scene is somewhat out of focus. To get an entire scene at the same focus level, the filmmaker uses a deep focus lens.

Shooting with digital equipment, such as consumer-grade mini-DV, has many advantages. One "problem" that I've discovered is that mini-DV suffers is that all scenes are in deep focus by default. This probably won't be much of a problem for a documentary. But if I were shooting a different type of movie, it might cause an issue.

I've read elsewhere that to make digital look like film, I move the camera further away from the action and use zoom. But I've also read in other places that it's always better to move the camera in close instead of using zoom. I'm a bit confused on this point, but, it shouldn't have an impact with the documentary. If I discover it does, maybe I can remove the "deep focus" problem in post ;)


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Upcoming 5K race

I know from reading online that many runners will "train through" a race on their way to a marathon, and there's a local 5K coming up in just over a month. But I've heard others say to never train through a race, because training and racing are two distinct activities. What does everyone here think? Should I train through the 5K, or keep my eye on the bigger race in October?


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Updates

I'm not sure how frequently I'm going to be able to post updates to the blog. I'm sure I'll be able to post at least once a week, but I'm not going to be able to maintain the once-per-day I was hoping for. With my limited amount of time this summer, I'd rather spend it actually running.