I wanted to make arroz con pollo tonight, but ended up pulling an audible.  I was on a kick a few years back where I was trying to perfect my simple rice and chicken recipe.  It is a traditional Latin American and Caribbean dish, but I could probably live for weeks on rice alone.  Anyway, I decided to make it with sausage and beans and it turned out really well.

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Overall, I ran 609.77 miles (445.5).  It took me 78 hours, 19 minutes and 48 seconds (64:13:12.)  My average speed was 7.8 MPH (6.9).  I burned an estimated 90,190 calories (67,308) over the course of 124 activities (118).  The max distance I ran all year was 13.1 miles (twice) (8.37 miles in 2010) and my average distance for the year was 4.92 miles per run (3.78.)

I ran tons of races this year as well.  A few highlights.

I ran a five miler in Mentor in September and really outdid myself in terms of pace as I completed the race with splits under 7 minutes per mile.  6:47 to be exact.  I ran my first mile in 6:30 to get off to a good start, paced myself in the next three miles and sprinted the last mile in with a speed of 6:37.

One of the craziest races was the Potato Stomp 9 miler in Mantua.  It was an UGLY September morning and started to pour about halfway through the race.  Then the lightning kicked up, but we were halfway through the course and there was nothing to do but try to finish fast.  In the torrential downpour, I was not only soaked and cold, but my shoes were filled with water and it killed my iPod.  Despite all this, I ran the 9 miler in 1:04:05 for a 7:07 average.  Considering how wet I was and everything else, I was elated to have such a good time.  I also passed about five or six people in the last two miles as I had splits of 7:05 and 6:49 to finish really really strong.

In a two-day span in September, I ran two races.  I won my age group running the Shaker Lakes 5k in 19:57.  It was probably a bit short, but I still finished in under 20 minutes, technically, so I’ll take it.  :-)  The next day, I decided to go out and run a five miler which I finished in 35 minutes for a 7 minute per mile average.  I was pretty proud of that time considering I did it in back-to-back days.

The best by far was my half marathon.  In the Towpath Marathon event, I ran a half marathon despite having a bad cold.  Despite those odds, I ran my 13.1 mile race in 1:35:36 for a 7:19 min/mi average pace.  This is despite hitting the wall about mile 10 and running the last three miles with splits closer to 8:00.

Those are the highlights.  It was a great year and I had lots of fun.  I survived a painful foot injury in November without too much problem and I am looking forward to doing even better in 2012.  Life might get in the way of doing as many races, but hopefully I can get my mileage going.  And who knows?  Maybe I’ll do something crazy like a marathon this year.

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Will I lose everything including my phone number settings?  Will I have to go to the Verizon store in order to get it back up and running?  I figured that was unlikely, but I didn’t know for sure.  As it turns out, I was right and you don’t have to go to the store.

After resetting, I went through the setup prompts and my phone dialed a *228 for reactivation.  The phone call went through and everything was successfully reprogrammed.  So, even if it did de-program the number, as long as you have access to a VZW tower, you can restore it.

How about purchased apps?  They will all be wiped clean, but once you re-establish your Google login during phone setup, you can log into Market and find them.  DO NOT LOG INTO MARKET BEFORE ESTABLISHING YOUR GOOGLE LOGIN INFO FIRST.  I don’t know if it is catastrophic, but a couple of message boards made it sound like it could make things more difficult.

As always, it is a good idea to back things up like pictures, etc.  You can find that info elsewhere.

So, in order to reset your phone you can hold the Down Volume and Power Buttons on power up, or you can select factory reset in the Menu / settings / privacy /factory reset.

Hopefully now you can do it without fear.

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