So I woke up at 8am today. Then I went back to sleep. I got up around 12:30pm. I did not realize I was so tired! Poked around the internet over lunch/breakfast, and finally got around to going for a run around 4:30pm. Really need to work on improving weekend efficiency. Seriously.
Randomly came across Hanlin and his girlfriend in the elevator, so I went with them for a bit, one trip around the campus, ~2 miles. So basically that was a 2 mile warmup. Fine. Today is an easy day as promised, so that works. But I needed some more miles, so I ran down to Lake Montebello, did a lap there and came back, which was about 4.5 more miles. Ok so it was a long easy day. I was sort of tired toward the end, maybe it was due to the wind on the lake, maybe it was because I shouldn't have gone so far on a recovery day. I was reading up on some stuff about rest/recovery and how to meter it out appropriately.
I am also going to do 16 x 400m on April 10th, at what hopefully will be ~75sec. That will be my final hard effort before the race on the 19th, whose venue I still haven't really determined. Will I run the Penn Relays Distance Classic or the Blue Jay 5k? It's the same weekend as UPenn's Spring Fling, and Guster is performing, which is totally amazing, but I'm not so sure that it is smart to go to a concert before a race. On the other hand, it would be a good opportunity to get out of town for a weekend, and it would be very rejuvenating. What to do? Also, since that workout is going down this Friday, I need to do a good effort workout on Monday and Wednesday. Either a tempo run or a hill workout would be appropriate.
So after getting back and doing a host of core work, I showered and went down to meet up w/ Lara and Nisha for dinner. Lara wanted Chipotle, and Nisha didnt. So she went to Orient Express, the chinese take-out place a few buildings down from Chipotle. On our way there, we passed this random guy, probably in his 40s, who just says, "hey what's that up there?" Being in Baltimore, I figured that telling him it was the moon (it was still light out) would be what he would expect, so I didn't want him to carry it on, so I answered (perhaps I really shouldn't have answered at all), "The sky." He says, "You don't have any clue what that is do ya? You dumb $hit." That was a good time to start walking faster. Quite the experience Baltimore is eh? I ended up getting some peach bubble tea from the asian take-out place and then getting a chicken burrito from Chipotle, which was delicious, as always. Watched an episode of House over dinner; some guy was dying from, uh ***SPOILER ALERT***a paper-cut.***END SPOILER ALERT*** Interesting stuff. Somehow the conversation devolved into talking about giant flemish/german bunnies, and how to acquire one. Also, we came across a guy in front of the dorms with a storm trooper mask on, which was, well, epic. So then I realized that I still hadn't done my laundry since I'd run out of socks (2 days ago), and that I had praise team rehearsal in 25 minutes, which meant laundry would wait yet again. So the laundry is still in the hamper, unwashed, and I'm telling myself to do it tomorrow since I need the sockage.
So that's the day. Chipotle was too filling, so no ice cream today. Plus, 2 pints in 2 days isnt exactly my idea of perfect health, but then again, ice cream isn't healthy, or is it??? Man I feel like Rita Skeeter.
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