Archive for April, 2006

Bay to Breakers

Saturday, April 15th, 2006

So, its getting serious. Yesterday the weather cleared up, so I braved my run outside. Usually I run on an indoor track at UC Davis’ ARC. On that track, I have my miles down to 8.5 minutes for a 3 mile jog and about 7.5 minutes in a timed mile.

For some reason on surface streets I slow way down. I ran 3.5 miles yesterday in 32 minutes. That puts me at over 9 minutes per mile and I felt every one of those miles, too. I’d like to improve to 8 minute miles before the end of next month.

The bay to breakers is coming up in May. Here’s a plot of the course at Gmaps Pedometer. That site’s pretty cool for plotting out your running routes. Especially cool is the elevation graph. See if you can spot Hayes Hill in the B2B plot. That one can kick your butt.

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The best paragraph I’ve read today

Sunday, April 2nd, 2006

Equilibrium macroeconomic models are described by systems of difference equations. These equations involve a number of dynamic relationships between a set of [...] variables [...]. Although the equations that describe economies look a lot like the equations that describe physical systems, they are different in one important respect. The behavior of economies depends on the expectations of thinking human beings.

From Roger Farmer’s Macroeconomics of Self-fulfilling Prophecies (pg. 3, 2nd ed.).

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