Quick Hits - By the Numbers
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This is the number of stories that I have half-baked but with no completion date in sight. One of them, at least in my opinion is time sensitive. The first is my experience running this years Chicago Half-Marathon. The second involves the oppressive nature of RSS subscriptions.
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This is the time I completed Naperville's 5K Turkey Trot this year. I bested my previous 5K time by 22 seconds. Although I'm happy to see that my training is paying off by allowing me to run faster times, I'm still not satisfied.
2005 TDF 2nd
In the 2005 Tour de France, Ivan Basso finished second to Lance Armstrong. Of all the challenger's that year, he looked stronger than the rest of the field with the exception of Armstrong. In 2006 he won the Giro d'Italia, Italy's grand tour and was expected to do well at the Tour de France, then that witch hunt, known as Operacion Puerto, happened ruining the season for many of the top cyclists.
Approximately one month ago, the news broke that Ivan Basso would be joining the Discovery Pro Cycling team. Good news? You bet! It means that Discovery may have another opportunity to put one of their riders on the top of the podium in France come July '07.
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This is the number of days I've been running Windows Vista RTM. Haven't really done much with it; however, I'm anxious to see if the application compatibility issues have improved.