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Sounds like a classic but it’s rare enough to make me happy when it happens

Check out my dives in Ko Samui/Ko Tao, Thailand here : http://www.diveboard.com/ksso and a more in-depth review on Diveboard’s blog.

This was my first half-marathon ever, and while I did train a lot and regularly, I never actually took the time to try this distance before. The max I ever did in my training sessions was 15km. I did thus start the race with some level of apprehension, quite unsure of what the best way to handle the event was. I started in the 1:50:00 objective group and set my runkeeper to a 5:12 min/km objective pace.

The first 10 km where a dream, I was literally flying by all the other runners and caught up a bad 1st km (5:50) du to the slow packed start to end at an average of 5:09, ahead of my target pace. Km 10 to 15 were slightly harder though, both physically and mentally I started having some doubts and I also probably should have eaten a banana or sth at km 5 and 10. At km 15 legs felt heavy and I struggled to keep my target pace, hopefully on km 18 a glass of energy drink got me the boost I needed to finish up the race and even to sprint the last 500m, and finish up at 1:52 with a pace of 5:14, slightly behind my target pace but still quit allright.

I loved that experience, running on a new circuit with 30 000 ppl is definitely and exciting experience.

Just spent a super cool week of vacation with wife and kids at Walt Disney World in Florida. Amazing weather (sun and heat, hard to imagine when it’s cloudy and around 7ºC here in Paris) and a lot of fun enjoying the 4 parcs (Epcot, Magic Kingdom, Animal Kingdom and Hollywood Studios). We also hopped to the Kennedy Space Center glance at Discovery on her launching pad for her last space mission (launching in 11hrs). Apparently the US are abandoning their shuttle program to move back to rockets (!?) with the Constellation / Orion project.

Just stumbled on this site and was quite in awe regardign the amount of data recorded there. OBIS is an amazing online database with an über-powerful search engin to learn more about marine species (i.e. where and when can I see hammerhead-sharks).

With our evolving OBIS database repository, users can identify biodiversity hotspots and large-scale ecological patterns, analyze dispersions of species over time and space, and plot species’ locations with temperature, salinity, and depth.

Funny email just received from Chronopost, France’s express delivery service. Those days either they “loose” the iphone 4G sent by Orange (twitter is filled of depressed geeks) or they just burn the entire truck.

Got a new oliv tree on the terrace – but the lousy delivery men broke in half one of the main branches – thus extreme fixing surgery required (well not so extreme apart from the running at the plant store get the repair kit).