March 2010 Archives

I have been ramping up more on doing track intervals trying to increase my speed for running 800 & 1500 meter events. I have noticed that when doing the shorter intervals particularly anything 400 meters and below in the VFF's this puts a bit more stress on the calves since you are on the forefront of your feet & toes even more.

This took me back to when I first started running in the VFF's in September last year but of course the recovery has been quicker.

I did a time trial with a running buddy that I work out with for track intervals this morning and it went well considering we were both leg weary from the weeks intervals plus I hit the weights hard, including the legs, Tuesday right after doing six 800 meter intervals.

As we walked from the parking lot to the track I thought no way would I be able to run this 600 meter followed by a 400 meter time trial even after warming up. Once we ran the trials my legs and calves felt a lot more relaxed than when we got there and still do now and that was 0800 hours (8 AM)!

I think running intervals in the VFF's will give me further flexibility and push once I really start getting in shape for these distances! I mean I haven't done interval training in over a decade at least and probably beyond that!

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I just finished isolating an issue that was preventing me from creating posts or doing much else on this specific blog only within my site. The other blogs were fine.

I had to recreate a new test blog and add different elements one at a time to pinpoint the issue on the test blog.

Finally after adding the RSS feeds from the other sites the issue preventing me from publishing occurred on the test blog. I then removed the RSS feeds from this blog and here I am publishing again.

I'll have to pursue the issue on why RSS feeds caused this issue later since I have other items on my plate in terms of priority but will will have RSS feeds on the site again soon hopefully.

The issue appears to be Perl related so if any of you out there have any ideas I posted the error information to the MovableType forum "http://forums.movabletype.org/2010/03/overloaded-package-xmllibxmlerror.html" and I have included it below:

I got this error yesterday trying to post a new entry to one of my blogs during the publishing operation:

"Operation "ne": no method found, left argument in overloaded package XML::LibXML::Error, right argument has no overloaded magic:"

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The accompanying error from the Apache error_log:

" \t(in cleanup) Can't call method "DESTROY" on unblessed reference at /var/www/cgi-bin/mt/extlib/XML/Elemental/Document.pm line 20 during global destruction., referer: http://mysite.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt.cgi "

Line Apache error log references in "/mt/extlib/XML/Elemental/Document.pm":

"sub DESTROY {

$_[0]->{contents}->DESTROY if $_[0]->{contents};

} # starts circular reference teardown"