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Race Report: 2013 Rutgers/Unite 13.1 half marathon 1

Apr

22

2013

Once again we headed to New Brunswick for my second Rutgers Unite Half marathon. Waking up early we decided to head down to the start in New Brunswick . Because of all the drama that happened in Boston just last week, there was a more pronounced security presence and a bit of more somber mood before the ...

Cherry Blossoms Photo walk 2

Apr

17

2013

Today we took advantage of the nice weather and during the peak of the Cherry Blossoms we did a little photo walking. Branch Brook Park is renowned for ts Cherry Blossom trees, and while they bloomed a little later than usual this year, we are lucky enough to live a mile from the park and ...

Race Photos: B. Schwartz Memorial (Garden State Plaza) 5K /1 mile Run 1

Apr

14

2013

Today a few friends of mine took part in the Benjamin Schwartz Memorial 5K /1 mile Run at Garden State Plaza, held at the Garden State Plaza mall. Congrats to all the winners and finishers! It was a fun event, and below are a few select photos from the event … I have uploaded all the ...

Nutrition and Longevity: a “fast” way to a long life.

Apr

11

2013

I ran across an interesting documentary on PBS recently Eat, Fast and Live Longer with Michael Mosley (watch is soon, free on-line video until 5/10). In a nutshell British journalist Michael Mosley goes about speaking with established researchers at US universities about the benefits of caloric restricted diets and how they can improve overall health and longevity. ...

Palindrome algorithms: What’s fastest reverse vs. compare. 1

Apr

11

2013

Today during a meeting a simple coding question came up as to how to write a palindrome function. A palindrome is a word, phrase, number, or other sequence of symbols or elements, whose meaning may be interpreted the same way in either forward or reverse direction.[1] Examples: mom , level, radar, tenet … There are quite a few programmatic solutions ...

Race report 2013: Cherry Blossom 10K (Branch Brook Park)

Apr

8

2013

The Cherry Blossom 10K in Newark’s Branch brook park, is a popular 10k race held in mid-April (typically during the height of the cherry blossom bloom) and sponsored by the Essex county parks system ,part of the race proceeds go towards the Special Olympics and its a well organized and attended local race. This is my personal favorite running ...

Photos Cherry Blossom Challenge Bike Races

Apr

6

2013

Some photos of the 2013 edition of the Cherry Blossom Challenge Cycling races. Photos are free! Simply Share this link (and link back) or leave some feedback below.. just something I do for fun, please give out this link to friends and other riders who may have attended. I only posted a few select ones here, ...

How far do they run playing different sports?

Apr

3

2013

I recently ran across an interesting post on Gizmodo (How Far Do You Run Playing Different Sports?), which answered the often asked question of how far do athletes run in popular sports , such as baseball, basketball, football etc. I had always heard that soccer players run about 13 miles during a full 90-minute game, ...

Air show Photography 2

Apr

2

2013

One of the fun things I’ve done in recent years, was attend several air shows, not only to enjoy the entertaining displays of aerobatic military and civilian aircraft, but also to test out my photography skills in capturing really fast action.. I love taking action photography especially of sports,cycling, auto and motor racing, air shows, boating etc. There’s ...

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