With the third selection in the 2008 NBA Draft, the Minnesota Timberwolves select Kevin Love from UCLA.

I’m completely prepared to hear those words tonight.  I don’t have ny problems with OJ Mayo, I just think that Love is a smart player and the Wolves have way too many guards.  If they really want another guard, I can see them trading both their early 2nd round picks for a pick in the teens to get Douglas-Roberts of Memphis.  I just need to get my Love jersey now.

It was a long weekend, and even ended up being a 3 day weekend for me.

Friday night, Sarah and I went to the movies and saw In Bruges in Uptown.  Some funny moments around some very dark ones.  We followed that up with a few drinks and some pizza rolls at Old Chicago.  As one my co-workers says, the pizza rolls are bomb.  True that.

Saturday I spent most of the day helping a friend build a retaining wall.  Not nearly as bad as something might think.  Once you get the first layer level, the rest is mostly grunt work.

We were supposed to get to the Thunder game Saturday night but severe rain and t-storms changed those plans last minute.  Instead we spent some time with Super Rookie and his Sarah.  The Thunder lost 1-0 without our support.

Sunday I woke up early to do a bike ride with Super Rookie and his some of his teammates.  I thought it would be a 30 mile easy ride.  It ended up being just under 50 miles.  I was really not prepared for that apparently because I spent the rest of the day in bed and also most of Monday.  It was terrible.  My 3 day weekend was mostly wasted and not nearly as fun as a 3 day weekend should be.  Hopefully, the 4 day workweek will make up for it.

I was closely following the NBA Draft lottery last night.  On Monday, I bought a couple of season tickets for the upcoming season with the catch being that the ticket price was based on the Wolves lottery results.  The higher the pick, the cheaper the seats.  If they had won the #1 pick, the two season tickets would have been just $43 each.  Instead, they’re $129 each.   That’s for 43 games.  What a steal.  Even though the seats are in the nosebleed section of the Target Center, I know that I’ll be able to move down closer at pretty much every game since the Wolves aren’t exactly selling out every game.

Michael Beasley and Derrick Rose are the clear favorites for going #1 and 2 in the draft.  The third spot starts to get a little fuzzy.  A lot of mock drafts having the Timberpuppies taking Brook Lopez.  I like to think they have their eyes on OJ Mayo, if only because of all the other deals that McChump has made with his agent.  Whoever is on the court, we’re guaranteed some cheap entertainment.  Considering they will probably win about 30 games next year, it was probably the right price.

Last weekend, I was in a 12 hour adventure race. Our team got 2nd. I’m hoping to still get a full write up of the event. I should also be getting a whole CD full of pics from the event.

As you can see by the picture, Sarah and I are just fine after completing the 50k Saturday. It was actually probably closer to 30 miles because they cut part of the course off. Evidently, the ski hill at Hyland that the course went through was still covered in snow/ice and they didn’t want us running on there. I’m not sure how much worse that is if we’re already running 30 miles, but I guess those in charge decided it was too much

Regardless, the race went great. I was nervous at the start that I didn’t bring the right clothes. It was close to 40 degrees and I hadn’t even brought gloves. But it all worked out. I had my iPod with full of music and it kept me busy for the entire 4:21:05 I was running. I even felt pretty good after the race and (very) briefly considered running with Sarah for her last lap.

Sarah finished in just over 6 hours and I was pretty proud of her. She ran all but the last couple of miles with her dad, who finished just a couple of minutes behind her. I swear I can remember when she said she would never run one. That didn’t take too long. She isn’t as excited as I am to try again though. Sarah’s dad says he’s never running a marathon again, but I think he’s said that before too.

Here’s a little FAQ for the race for any basic questions someone might have.

Q. What do you think about running for 30 miles?
A. Great question. I thought about that one myself part of the time. Other times, I just tried to space out a little bit thinking about a particular song, when the next water/food stop was, what was I going to eat after the race, or maybe think about what other races I wanted to run this year.

Q. What do you eat during the race?
A. I had 3 PowerGels with me. I was hoping to get more during the race but somehow missed seeing Sarah’s mom after lap 3. They did have gardettos at the stops, Clif Bars, Oreos, and Vanilla wafers. My favorite was dunking the Oreos into some flat Coke. Probably the only time something like that sounds good is in the middle of a 50k. I also tried to grab Powerade at every stop.

Q. How much did it hurt?
A. Surprisingly, not that much. After most marathons, I struggle to go up and down stairs afterwards. This race was entirely different. It may have been due to walking all the uphills and just running a slower pace in general. I think that running on trails instead of asphalt and pavement probably helped too.

Q. Will you do it again?
A. Yes. I actually want to go farther next time. I’m not sure what my limit is which worries Sarah. I would definitely run a 50 mile race and even a 100 mile race. I never really hit the wall during this race so maybe I’m being a bit naive about this.

We had a great time and had zero guilt taking down an entire pizza at Carbones afterwards along with a sampler platter of chicken fingers, cheeze sticks and onion rings. The guilt-less eating after a race is possibly the best part.

(Paul, Sarah, & Dylan after the race)

 It’s true.  Tomorrow morning I’ll be toeing the line at the Trail Mix 50k at 7am.  This will be my first ultramarathon, that being anything longer than a marathon.  That’s 31 miles for those of you not familiar with the metric system.  I ran the 25k there last year, which was only 2 of the 7.75 mile loops.  I finished that in 2 hours and change and I’m hoping tomorrow will be under 4:30.  I haven’t done that much running as of late.  The farthest I’ve run in the past 3 months is just under 16 miles, but I did run the Huntsville marathon in December.  I remind myself that the first marathon I ran back in 2001 my longest run was 8 miles and I still finished.  So I should be able to finish this tomorrow.  It’s just a matter of what state I’ll be in afterwards.  The goal is to still be walking.  Hopefully, an update will follow on Monday.

I apologize for lack of posts. I think I lost my muse. Don’t worry I found it:

There are 40 more awesome pictures waiting for you to laugh at.

This guy is the bestest.  Officially.  I’d like to think that if I played 4-5 hours a day at GH I’d be pretty good too.  If that much practice still doesn’t get you past Expert level, maybe you should think about playing something more low key, like World of Warcraft of something.

Watch the Youtube link too if you dare.

Just came across a headline which made me question the author.

 Atlas rocket blasts off from California Air Force base carrying secret US satellite

If it’s such a secret, how does the newspaper know about it and why are they telling everyone about  it?

An Atlas 5 rocket carrying a secret U.S. satellite lifted off before dawn Thursday, officials said.

Wait…  So some sort of “officials” even talked about it?

Just read this. Let me get this straight.  They decided to hold their primaries early in order to protest other states moving their dates up, thus violating national party rules.  Now that the race is closer than people expected, they want to do it over so that their votes actually count.  Naturally, the Monica Lewinski’s ex-boyfriend’s wife’s supporters are all in favor of a redo so that their candidate can get more votes.  I don’t see how this can really happen.  They made the choice to have the primary early and now they realize it was a dumb idea.  What a waste of money if it does.  I’m guessing there is no precedent for this.  If anyone knows of such an event, let me know.