2010 Cooper River Bridge Run

I haven't blogged in awhile and I find myself looking here for past race results and such. So, I thought I should at least get in here and update my recent race results.

I had a good run for the Cooper River Bridge Run this year although it was a minute slower than last year. I can not complain about these results:

March 27, 2010: Charleston, SC Cooper River Bridge Run
	Distance:	6.2 Miles
	Time:	49:28
	Heart Rate:	167
	Pace:	7:51
	Weather:	Overcast Temperature-48° Humidity-82%

The Route:

Printing to HP Deskjet 722C from Mac via Windows Server 2008

I got a MacBook late last year. I am running Mac OS X 10.6.2. I learned how to use the network to connect to printers connected to Windows' machines, but the Mac doesn't have a driver for my ancient, but very well working HP Deskjet 722C printer. I was printing to my wife's more modern printer, but she disconnects her machine too frequently and I have to walk over with the Mac and physically connect. Yuk! I had given up when I found a gem on the Internet, How to Use a Printer Attached to a Windows XP Computer in Mac OS X, that led me to a solution.

Now, the instructions did work exactly as written for me, but contained everything I needed to resolve. Here are the key points that vary from the instructions in the article that led to my success:

Do exactly as instructed for items 1-3. Except, choose to share "Ghostscript722C"; you will see why in a moment.

I selected "HP Color LaserJet 2500 PS" for the Print Driver instead of "Apple Color LW 12/660 PS" which was not installed on my system. I just looked for something with "PS" and went with HP for obvious reasons (the printer is an HP, but I don't think it matters as long as it supports postscript).

I did have to make the registry change suggested in the instructions:

After googling the error I found the following solution on redmons homepage:

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/redmon/

"gsprint can't find any printers because RedMon runs as the default 
user which doesn't have any printers. Copy the printer configuration 
in the registry from the current user to the default user. This problem 
is related to using mswinpr2 on Windows NT."

And the solution is found here:
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/redmon/muir.htm

Copying the stringvalue with *the name of the real, working 
printer* (as phrased in part3) found in the registry location. 
Using Start->Run->Regedit (be careful, because it can cause severe 
damage to windows if something wrong is done with regedit):
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Devices

f.ex. (I suppose in your case, if it was on windows 2000):
String name: "HP DeskJet 722C" (The printername)
String value: "winspool,FILE:"

To the registry location:
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Devices

String name: "HP DeskJet 722C" (The printername)
String value: "winspool,FILE:"

My String value was "LPT1:", not "FILE:" though.

And, this note (also in the main article referenced above), led me to the final conclusion which worked:

I'd like to contribute one note for the instructions that other 
multi-computer switchers might find useful: 

With 10.3 Panther, one has the option to just share the redirected
printer as a standard Windows share instead of using Unix print services. 
I basically just followed your instructions up to step 3, but then just 
turned on sharing. I was then able to find the printer from the Printer 
Setup Utility using the Windows Printing menu item.

However, I used the Add Printer, Advanced Tab

• Type: Windows
• Device: Another Device
• URL: smb://IBMServer/Ghostscript722C (Note: "IBMServer is server name where printer is connected)
• Name: IBMServer
• Location:
• Print Using: Generic PostScript Printer

And, walla, I am printing.

2010 Mercedes Marathon Finish: Run Your Real Pace Fool ;)

I ran the Mercedes Marathon on Valentines day  at 4:25:52. As the chart below shows, I died in the 7.6 miles. I should have ran to what I knew was my fitness level by aiming at something like a 4:15 or a 9:43 pace. I shot for 9:09 and ran with the 4:00 hour pace group. I am just not at that fitness level. I was close to that fitness level last year. I was running to improve last year's time, instead of to what I really knew my ability was. I'm OK with my overall time, but I hate finishing this spent. I walked A LOT in the end. I hate that. I don't mind being slow. I do mind walking. Lesson learned. The times listed for the 15K and 25K must be wrong. I suspect the 15K was wrong and the rest are correct. It is as if the measurement of the 15K was more like 10 miles or something. Anyway, I was spent, I ran way ahead of my ability and it hurt. But, no injury. I was just WAY tired.

Distance	Time	Pace	Leg Distance	Leg Time	Leg Pace
6.2	54:43	8:50	6.2	54:43	8:50
9.3*	1:31:34	8:49	3.1	36:51	11:53*
15.5**	2:16:35	8:49	6.2	45:01	7:16**
18.6	2:43:04	8:46	3.1	27:59	9.03
26.2	4:25:52	10:09	7.6	1:42:48	13:53

* There is no way that I was running a 11:53 pace between 6.2 and 9.3. So, the posted data from the results is wrong.
** There is no way that I was running 7:16  pace between 9.3 and 15.5. So, the posted data from the results is wrong.