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Today I went for my second 11-km run in two days. I went easy, ran under 136 bpm and felt okay. My butt-upper hamstring was only bothering me 2 out of 10.

It looks like that A.R.T. may be working. I've only had one visit and my butt feels better than normal. Previously it was a 5 to 7 out of 10.

I'm also proud to say my weight is down to 184.4 lbs as of this morning. I attribute that to two things. The first is I've been eating healthy and sparsely. Every time I want "junk-food", I go for fruit. Although beer is still allowed on the "Training Payne Diet".

The second reason I may be down in weight is muscle-loss, "if you don't use it, you lose it". Your body doesn't care if you did 3-3/4 Ironmans this year. Either way, seeing that scale under 185 lbs felt good.

I ran and went for a massage today. Sara, the girl I go to really worked the buttocks and hamstrings. She found some tightness in my IT bands as well. However, I'm not sure if the massage is helping, although the A.R.T guy seemed to think it was a good cross-therapy.

I found that after the massage, it felt like the problem returned slightly. It may be phantom pains, however it seemed hurt when I sat down. The real test is going to be tomorrow when I do another run.

The last two runs have been enjoyable, especially when your running slow to keep your heart rate down. It's fall and the leaves have now changed colours and I'm liking the change of scenery. The downside is it's cool weather outside.

The only upside to the cooler weather is I know how to dress for it. I simply wear my jacket, running tights and gloves. The only decision I need to make is whether to wear a hat or a toque.

Tonight was a late night and no beer was involved. Earlier in the day Fedex delivered our Mac TV box and new iLife 11 software. That was the kick off to my day being computer related and then evolved into organizing computer files.

The Mac TV is AWESOME. It didn't take much to set up and now I'm streaming HD from Netflix, You Tube and can even rent movies from the Mac Store on demand. I'm feeling like I'm getting closer to finding a way to eliminate Cogeco from my life.

I set the box up on the TV in the Man Cave, it's one of the few that we have in HD. More importantly, it's where I do my indoor bike trainer rides. The ONLY thing I need to figure out is how to stream from my computer directly to the TV. That way I can order my Pay-per-view events off the computer.

My next adventure is going to see if I can find an alternative way to get Internet from the United States into my home. Perhaps there is some sort of a Satellite dish or something that I can buy in the U.S. with a U.S. plan and smuggle over the border. I know if I have a U.S. Internet I.P., I can stream in movies and TV shows from Hulu, which is banned in China, er, I mean Canada.

Tonight, for over 5 hours, I was organizing all the "user names" and "passwords" for all the website logins I have. I finally got so frustrated with the time wasting involved in trying to figure out what they are as I need them throughout the day, so I decided to put them all into one place.

I set up an excel spread sheet and by 2 am, I had 165 different accounts that I had user names and passwords for. I was shocked that the list was that large, I would have never guessed it was that many, and there was not one was porn account among them. On twitter, Adena said I was "a little web slutty". It's hard to disagree with that. It's a good thing I have a mac and don't get virus's.

Friday nights are hard to eat healthy. Alice doesn't want to cook, I don't blame her, and the kids just eat McDonald's or Pizza. Tonight it was Pizza and I had a couple more pieces than I should have. It's hard not to do when the 2-for-1 large pizza deals are cheaper than ordering one medium pizza, no joke.

My ONLY other diet "faus pas" was eating a bunch of those "little Halloween chocolate bars" that Alice bought. I somehow justified it because I didn't have any beer tonight. Funny how the mind works.

Tomorrow it will be back on straight beer and no junk food. I have no choice, Al Nolan and clan are dropping by on their way to a Halloween party.

Mod run - 58:34 / 11.14 km / 5:15 avg pace / 136 avg hr