Polar Plunge at South Shore

With a name like "South Shore", you would think it would be a little warmer. But no: air temperature of about 50F was nice if not for the stiff breeze over 10mph and a water temp of about 42F. Waves were nice - there were a few surfers, with full wetsuit regalia. I saw only one other brave soul splashing about.

Polar Plunge 2025

Half Month of Half Marathons

What's two more? A half month of half marathons - 15 days in a row, total (with some overages) of 196.75 miles, in roughly 2 weeks.

So after Saturday, December 14 and Sunday, December 15, I'm done with half marathons for this year.

Lucky 13 Challenge

Early last month I was thinking over some of my running challenges and thought, "I have yet to run 13 half marathons in 13 consecutive days". Moreover, if I was to do that and start on the first of a month, I would finish on the 13th of that month and if that day was a Friday - Friday the Thirteenth - I could call it the "Lucky 13 Challenge". Then I thought, what's the next time we get a Friday the Thirteenth ... and then I realized, it was this December - 3 weeks away. So much for training ...

Emulation Abstraction through Middleware - Emulation 102

In my last Emulation 101 post, I talked about why we use emulation instead of expensive real-world systems testing or abstracted software-only simulation. This time, we're talking about the design of our emulation testbed and the software under test.

Emulation Testbed

Our emulation testbed has three main components:

1. The emulation software / framework
2. The software (or system) under test, and
3. The middleware abstraction boundary that makes it possible

I talked about the emulation software and framework in the last post. The software or system under test is the software we're writing that needs to be tested - and emulation is the means we've chosen to do it. The "middleware" is the important part I'd like to discuss today.

Caught Somewhere in Worcester

Last night I took the family to see Iron Maiden - my favorite band of all time and quite possibly the best band in the world, ever.

I saw Iron Maiden in Providence, RI back in January, 1991 - my first concert. Fitting that this was my both of my kids' first concert. They grew up with me playing Maiden in the car, in the house - they knew some songs and even sang along with the chorus to Heaven Can Wait, Fear of the Dark, The Trooper and Wasted Years.

Maine to Massachusetts

Today, I ran across New Hampshire - from Maine to Massachusetts - all along the seacoast.

A nice drive - for my wife and kid who hop-scotched me along the way to trade refilled water bottles and play on the beaches while they waited for me to catch up. An even nicer run to be all along the seacoast most of the way - nice views, cool weather, overcast with just a bit of rain. All-in-all a great run!

Welcome Back Students

This weekend, I decided to run to all the schools in our combined district.

Starting at one end - Bristol Plymouth Technical High School, and ending at the other - Somerset Berkley Regional High School ... and all the stops in between.