Race Results

I hope everyone is doing well!!
A few people asked me how the race results are reported.
Sorry to send this mass mailer, but it's interesting stuff.
 
So, here goes.
I ran in the 2008 Broad Street Run
Here are my photos
http://s278.photobucket.com/albums/kk107/kengregory/
 
It was my second time running the race
I'm in a running club with staff, faculty, and students from The University of the Arts.
I worked at UArts from '02 until '07 and I still train with the club when I'm available after work.
 
The Broad Street Run is a blast.
The course is 10 miles through the middle of Philadelphia.
 
My personal time from start to finish was 1 hour 32 minutes and 26 seconds
My official time was over five minutes longer.
It took me 5 minutes to weave through thousands of people to get over the the starting line
That issue will be dealt with differently next year, so it won't be such a problem.
 
Over 22,000 people started the race
19,181 people finished the race
My overal place was 9867
Compared to all runniers I'm at about 48%
0 is the worst and 100 is the best
 
I want to improve for next year
I want to cross over the 50% mark and hopefully break 60%
 
Currently I average about 9:15 per mile
I'd like to reduce that by one minute per mile
The good news is that I improved upon my 2007 time by over 15 minutes
I took the race very slowly my first time and now I'm starting to run for real.
 
Again, the photos are publicly available here:
Photobucket, http://s278.photobucket.com/albums/kk107/kengregory/
 
The photos are privately available here:
Myspace, http://www.myspace.com/soundmankennyg
Facebook, search for kengreg@gmail.com
 
 
2008 RACE RESULTS
BibFNameLNameCityStateCountryAgeSexChipTimeClockTimeOverallSexPlDivPl AgeGradePace
8322 Kenneth Gregory Philadelphia PA  38 M 01:32:26 01:38:12 9867 6284 972 49.6%

 
2007 RACE RESULTS
 
BibFNameLNameCityStateCountryAgeSexChipTimeClockTimeOverallSexPlDivPlPace
5233 Kenneth Gregory Philadelphia PA  37 M 01:47:55 01:51:32 13349 7638 1264

 
I owe a lot of my progress in running to a dedicated yoga practice.  It keeps me motivated, flexible, and in aligment.  My body absorbs shock better than it did before.
Whatever you do, do it well
And don't be afraid to sweat
Peace.
-Ken

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Kenny G in 2008

Friends and acquaintances!  Fakers, shakers, and music makers.  I hope you are all in good health and good spirits

I need to see a couple of rock shows.  I'm sorry if I haven't been to the clubs lately.  With the extended daylight I'll be headed out.  Keep sending your bulletins.

The last place that I did live sound was Chris' Jazz Cafe in 2007.  Around the same time I was doing musical theater in The Arts Bank and a couple of sub shifts at Khyber.  That schedule no longer works with my day job so I'm not currently a soundman.

I finally have a home studio setup that works.   Right now I'm taking all of my five minute songs and editing down to three minutes.  It's a really eye-opening process. 

I had a sinus surgery in late '07.  I've been learning sing through my new head space and control my vibrato.  Good stuff.  I'm learning how to record myself all over again.

I bought a used Yamaha semi-hollowbody guitar that makes me very happy.  The sound will be the anchor of my new recordings.  You can see a glimpse of it in my new photos.

I cut-out beer in Jan 2008.  Red wine is okay.  Every now and then I down a few Stolis and go back to the karaoke bar!  Well... I pretty much don't drink if I'm doing a lot of physical activity.  Running and drinking aren't a good combo for me, and lately the running has been more important.

Please check out my new photos of the 2008 Broad Street Run.  It was a freaking blast this year.  I won!!  I totally won!!  Because I reached my personal goal :)

Yoga is probably the coolest fcking thing I've ever done.  I do it three times per week.

I virtually disappeared from MySpace for a while.  You can search for me on Facebook using my name, Ken Gregory, or the email address kengreg@gmail.com

So what have you been up to?  Drop me a note.   Peace!!

-Ken

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Nov 23rd - SPC, McNally, Nowhere !!!
Category: Music

Here we go... let's promote a show!

1. It's a holiday weekend
2. There's no cover
3. The bar is affordable
4. Three fun and talented acts will be performing a tasty mix of originals and sing along covers.

I guess God made the suburbs for this very reason.  You can just pull-up and park and not blow a lot of money.  Who woulda thunk?

I'm talking about this place:
Carol's Place on 6th Street in Conshohocken
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=l&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=carol's+place&near=Conshohocken,+PA&ie=UTF8&ll=40.08083,-75.30098&spn=0.007963,0.01442&z=16&iwloc=A&om=1

On this day:
Friday Nov 23rd

And these great folks:
Nowhere, Tim McNally, Six Pack Creek


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Last month I got back with Six Pack Creek for a medical benefit show and the music was on fire.  I'm pumped to hit it again.  The whole room will be stompin.  If ya don't know, I'm playin lead acoustic guitar over honky tonk music.  It's unlike anything you've ever seen me do.

Nowhere has been kicking some serious ass lately, including a big show at the Trocodero Theater.  Come see how these local boys are making men out of themselves.

Tim McNally is the "former nowhere" who got up to go "somewhere".  His voice sounds great absolutely "anywhere".

Call or email... you know the drill
kengreg@gmail.com

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Benefit for Ed’s medical bills

The cycle of rehearsal and performance makes me crazy.  Actually the bar business makes me crazy.  I had to quit Six Pack Creek last year because I was well... you know... crazy!

The exception to my rule is a GOOD CAUSE.  I'll make myself crazy for a good cause.  You see, here' s the story, Ed's wife had a tumor removed from behind her eye socket several months ago.  This is very scary stuff.  I couldn't possibly make this up.  The medical bills have been through the roof.

The show is happening at Likety Split, 4th and South, on Saturday the 13th.  It will run late.  I will be fun.  It will help Ed and Marcia to squeeze by just a little longer.

Katie Barbado, Dani Mari, and Six Pack Creek.

There will be several raffles, with donated prizes.  Good stuff.

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I will deliver COVER SONGS... in a rich baritone... Sept 28th
Category: Music

My buddy Rory needed someone to open for his band "Nowhere".  I figured I'd jump in and tear it up.

I put many hours into building this set.  It's almost all covers.  I found some classic rock tunes, and added some ninties stuff, a couple of suprising newer tunes, plus the most quirky eighties tune I could find.  All this music has been acoustified Kenny-style.  I dropped the keys into my vocal range where needed.  I'm inventing alternate tunings for a couple of tunes.  It's all pretty dreamy, but  totally appropriate for a bar.

Led Zep - The Ocean
Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water
Peter Gabriel - Solsburry Hill
Elliot Smith - Son of Sam
Counting Crows - Round Here
Britney Spears - Opps I Did It Again
Natasha Beddingfield - These Words are my Own
Wallflowers - One Headlight
Howard Jones - New Song (Don't Crack Up)

I'm totally lovin this set.  I'm like "The Wedding Singer" but not quite as goofy as Adam Sandler.  I'm on my game.  I will deliver the goods.  Yessireee.

Friday Sept 28th
Roughly 9:30 PM

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I'm taking a break from sound

A lot of people met me as a soundman.  That's cool, but there's another side of me.  I have over 8 years experience with computer administration.  I took a new job recently with a small private company.  I'm a network engineer.  I'm pretty busy and I don't really have the time or brain power to get into sound.

It's nice because I don't have to work on weekends.  I'm able to put some effort into my own writing.  I got a couple of requests from people to do sound work, but that's not really going work for me these days.  I think I'll go see a couple of rock shows for a change.

-Ken

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I spoke for Casino Free Phila on MY FOX PHILLY

They interviewed me at Johnny Brendas, here's the video

Residents Against Casinos in Their Neighborhoods

Or you can save the video to your computer, right click and save target

http://www.casinofreephila.org/files/fox29news.mp4

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Ed Snider of Comcast doesn't want you to get petitions

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Me and my pals found innocent in a Harrisburg court

Protesters arrested at Pa. gaming board offices are acquitted
1/22/2007, 6:23 p.m. ET
By MARC LEVY
The Associated Press   

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A district judge on Monday acquitted 14 protesters from Philadelphia who were charged with disorderly conduct last month outside the offices of the state's gambling regulatory agency.

Harrisburg District Judge Joseph Solomon said authorities did not prove that protesters — members of the antigambling group Casino-Free Philadelphia — intended to block access to the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board's offices.

"Their intent was to go there to get information that they had been previously denied," Solomon said in a telephone interview after the 30-minute hearing. "I didn't feel it was appropriate for the gaming board to deny what I perceive to be public information."

Solomon, however, noted that a gaming board witness, Paul Mauro, a supervisor for the gaming board's bureau of investigation and enforcement, did not discuss the agency's legal obligations to respond to records requests.

The rest can be found here:

Penn Live Article on the Philly Phourteen

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My FCC testimony

I got the green light to speak for two minutes at Temple Univeristy tomorrow, so I rehearsed my testimony about 100 times.

Here's my final draft.  I hope this story resonates with a few people.

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I joined Casino Free Philadelphia in a civil disobedience at the offices of the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board on December 11th.

(1) The Philadelphia Metro carried the arrests on the front page. (2) The Pittsburgh Post Gazzette carried the arrests on the front page (2) The Associated Press carried a detailed story which was picked-up all throughout Pennsylvania and even down to Houston TX. (4) at least one television station, Fox Philadelphia, ran video of the protest (5) Ten days after the event even USA Today jumped on board, by prominently displaying a photo of Operation Transparency.

Editors across Pennsylvania and other places were excited, but the newsprint monopoly in our hometown was NOT excited to tell the story.

Publisher, Brian Tierney, was exploring the casino business with a 5 million dollar pledge in the proposed Trump Street Casino.

Conveniently, the Philadelphia Inquirer buried the story of our arrests behind an expose on Christmas lights. We were in the Local Section, Letter B, Page Number 4. The only thing positive we could say for the Inquirer was that they sent their own reporter.

The Philadelphia Daily News, also under Tierney, did not send a reporter.  They picked-up the AP story and quietly slid it into page 6.

Neither paper showed photographs of the event, yet all 14 arrestees were residents of Philadelphia.

The Inquirer did manage to print a disclaimer about Tierney's proposed investment, but the disclaimer appeared only after a big editorial endorsement of casinos, including a special endorsement for Trump Street.

Recently we learned that Jeff Shields, the primary casino reporter at the Inquirer was among a staff reduction.

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