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Lime Ricki Winner announced

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I went to a movie last night and totally forgot to announce the winner of the swim suit. I know you’re all dying to know who the winner was. I picked the winner through random.org and the winner is:


Congratulations Melanie! Please send me your mailing address along with the swim suit sizing, top  (Lizzie?) and bottom colors you would like, to me at spiffykerms at gmail dot com and I will forward your information to the girls at Lime Ricki!

For those of you that had questions while entering, I have some answers!

  • The coupon code for 10% off: spiffy10 is valid til July 31, 2010.
  • Shipping to Canada? Here are the deets:
    • Standard: 3-5 days, $5.50 base, $2.00 per item
    • Priority: 2-3 days, $6.50 base, $2.00 per item
    • Express: 1-2 days, $35.00 base, $2.00 per item

Thanks again everyone for entering, it was fun.

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Blog Tips, Geek Speak, Wasting Time

Blogging pet peeves

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What are some of your blogging pet peeves? Most of these topics I listed doesn’t bother me incredibly much, but it’s a fun way to subliminally get messages across to people, right? :)

  • Multiple blog entries with no photos! I’m a visual person − I love pictures.
  • Huge blocks of text without any paragraphs. Please hit enter.
  • I have a few sites that I would like to comment on, but rarely do because of the security feature they have on their comments section. If I have to enter a code in order for my comment to get verified, I’ll rarely comment. If you’re worried about spam, there’s a feature on WordPress called Akismet Stats. It catches all your spam so you don’t have to use that double-comment feature.
  • People who visit your blog for the giveaway you’re hosting – saying they love your site, but never return. 
  • Bloggers that just use their website to complain. I also dislike bloggers calling other bloggers out. I unfollow their blog when that sort of thing happens. Remember, if you don’t have anything nice to say don’t say it at all.
  • No “About Me” pages. Those are so informative, or just fun to read. Who are you?
  • Ignoring spell check. Grammar, and punctuation doesn’t bother me all that much. But please learn the basics on how to spell definitely without an “a”, and use the correct your, you’re, it’s, its … etc.
  • Partial feeds on Google RSS. I dislike clicking on websites to read the whole entry, I want to read the post faster through my e-mail. If I like what I read, I’ll visit your site then
    comment.

What sort of things annoy you? Minor or major! Comment below and let me know :)


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< 25 min 5k?

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(5k in September 2008)

If you follow me on twitter, you know that I’ve been training for an upcoming road race. It’s just a 5km running race here locally. I’ve had the urge to do another race and as you can see in my sidebar, I have a goal that I’d like to accomplish. My first and only 5k race was in September 2008 (recap here) and I had a goal of doing it in under 30 minutes. Which I did. Spot on, thirty minutes.

This time I want to try for 25 minutes. Yeah, quite the difference. I have been training since April and going a minimum of 2x per week. I have a new running buddy and we often go together and skip the running group class where we started off with, but still go there once a week.

We’re going by the ten and one rule. No more than 10 minutes of running at a time. 10 minutes jog, 1 minute off. Rinse and repeat til you’re done your 5k.

Last Friday we ran 4.08k in 23:15 which is a pace of 5:41 minutes per kilometer (or 9:10 min mile if you’re American). Too slow for my liking, especially if I wanted to break my record and do a 25 min 5k. We’d have to bring that down to a 5 minute kilometer, respectively.

On Wednesday we ran 4.35k in 22:28 — a much quicker pace. Dedicated, probably because I was disappointed at my previous time. That equals out to a 5:09 minute kilometer (8:18/mile).

Thursday we ran with our group but ran ahead a bit to pick up the pace. I started off way too fast and ended up being about 300 meter in front of the “fast people” yesterday and wore myself out towards the end since we had to climb two hills. I ran the 4.9k in 26:57, but really it was 25:57 since the first minute of the run was actually a walking minute. So if I went by th 26 minute time, I ran at 5:30 minute kilometer. I think it was fine. It was hard because of the ginormous hill we did — which wasn’t all that bad but I was literally swearing under my breath, probably because I wore myself out on the first quarter of the run.

<25 min 5k? I think it’s doable. I’m getting less and less nervous each time I run. I used to die from being nervous, having stomach cramps and all that not so nice stuff before I headed out on a run. Now I’m all… LETS DO THIS.

How did I track my pace? Well I’m not good with math, but I did find a really neat site that will tell you your pace distance or time. It’s much cheaper than buying a Garmin :)

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