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29 July 2009 - <i>Maxwell turns 6!!!!!</i>
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Zinny is one half Labrador. This means she has a taste for fresh baked goods. As she has recently attained a height able to reach the counter, this
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15 July 2009
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The gathering dark is always most evident in the morning when I getup and see the sun's place further down on the horizon.  At summer's peak this latitude gets ~16 hours of sunlight per day. At winter's ebb we get only 9 and a half hours. That means that we loose just over 2 minutes a day or about 15 minutes per week. Compare that to Atlanta were the variation is only 4.5 hours so only 1.5 min/day or 10 min/week are lost and you will understand why I perceive the change so acutely - it comes 50% faster here!
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This morning I ran yet another 5K - 31 minutes and 15 seconds. My progress has somewhat stagnated and I'm in the rising part of the sinusoidal curve
in my weight so I was looking for some motivation. So I decided to compare myself to a top runner - someone who weighs 160 lbs and averages a 3 minute 
kilometer. The first term in the frictional force of running is linear in mass and the coefficient should be about the same (assuming a negligible
velocity dependence), ergo the ratio of my power output to that of a hypothetical runner is dependent only on our masses and race times. I also left
out the Brasstown Bald race as there is another sizable term because of the change in potential energy on a noncircuit course. Contrived as this may 
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running career - something to smile about =)
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