With the first month of 2009 in the books, I wanted to take a quick look at my 5K progress.

I am running 4 days a week with consistency – 3 or more miles each day.  My immediate goal is 12 to 13 miles each week with one day being a run of 3.5 miles or greater.  I hope to increase the long-distance run to 4 miles in the next week to prepare for an event later this month.

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Katelyn is taking a Computer Engineering class this semester.  She’s learned a lot about computer technology and has, at many times over the past few months, challenged my position as the family “PC guru”.  To show off her technical prowess, she wanted to build a faster PC.  She wanted to do it over the Christmas break and she wanted Santa to bring her the components, which she would hand pick.

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