By Guus , 16 April 2009

Just came back from a 3:10 hour training run in Umstead. Beautiful course. Absolutely exhausted. Pushed it hard. Ran up the hill after the final bridge for 4 minutes. Felt like 20. Made it back to the car about 15 minutes before the park closed. Love running.

13 minutes/mile.

By Guus , 14 April 2009

Did interval training, the 3rd and 5th mile of my standard run. 3rd mile: 8:25 minutes. 5th mile: 8:45 minutes.

Had to jump off the course to evade a dog that wanted to lovingly give me some attention in the 3rd mile when I was sprinting, hurt my foot a little bit. I'm pretty sure that if this had happened three years ago I would have hurt my foot a whole lot more.

By Guus , 14 April 2009

This morning I've been upgrading the Postgres database on my Windows XP laptop to version 8.3.

During the installation it asks for the password of the service account of previous PostgreSQL version. The default value is 'postgres', but sure enough I forgot what password I used when I originally installed it.

I found this useful post on how to change the password for any Windows user. From the Windows command line execute the following to reset the password to 'postgres'.

net user postgres postgres

That worked, so now I'm ready to complete the installation and be able to use the new Ruby pg gem that was recently release for Windows.

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By Guus , 12 April 2009

Beautiful trail run. Combined Cox Mountain with Fanny's Ford loop, for a total of 4.75 gorgeous exhausting miles. First time in a very, very long time that I ran on two consecutive days.

By Guus , 12 April 2009

Trail run.I just did a great trail run at the Eno River (where we walked with Ettie and Gerben).

Sitting in the sun now and Jaap just fixed the website (thank you).

Life is good.

Trail run.

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By Guus , 11 April 2009

Whole Foods. Felt great. Glad I didn't try to run a long distance, and that I sticked with my plan. Long run next Saturday.