Training Log Archive: Rosstopher

weather for my commute was wonderful. I have switched to wearing shorts and short sleeves, but I still wear my empire state games hat, which helps my headphones stay in place. I'm planning to replace these headphones with quality earbuds, but I'm a procrastinator so it hasn't happened yet.

Story is still getting started, I'm only on the 2nd disc of 10, but either the plot is more energetic or I was just running faster today,,, because I didn't feel quite as slow this time.

I did arrive at work today when I realized that my Harvard ID, my wallet, and my phone were all back at home in my pants pockets..... shucks. Luckily the security guy knows me, and he let me in anyways. Happily, I didn't forget to bring my Ramen and my Jalapeno potato chips... mmmmm.

Daily commute. This one was a slow one too, though I didn't really time it so much. It just felt slow. The book of the moment is Orson Scott Card's Shadow of the Giant. I highly recommend Orson Scott Card as an author ( one of mom's student's influenced her to get me started) and this book is quite captivating. At one point I didn't recognize where I was, because I had been paying so much attention to the story that I had been making the turns without having them register. Thus i was much farther than I expected to be, and out of context the road I was running on was unfamiliar.

I've read the story before, which may be a good thing, because I'm not sitting on the edge of my proverbial seat. Which allows me to be able to devote more of my awareness to avoiding collisions with the various roadside dangers ( i.e. parking meters, really slow pedestrians, dive-bombing vultures, attack badgers....).

commuting to work. Today I tried an experiment. I took a book on CD from the library, and imported it to my iTunes. then I took those mp3 files and put them on my iPods playlist. then I listened to David Sedaris on the way to work today. Listening to the book was a nice change, but I think it made me run a little slower. I think I was coasting more while listening to the words, than I do when it's just music. My legs still felt a little tired too.

Tomorrow I'm going to run in short sleeves. A sure harbringer of summer!

commuting to work. I felt pretty tired this morning. I wonder if perhaps I would do better with some sort of rest day during the week. I felt awake later in the morning, but during the run itself I was dragging a bit. The weather is still good, and it feels very good to be exercising daily.

hoofing it to work. Much warmer day today, and the iPod was co-operating, so uninterrupted tunes for the whole run. Not really sore from the NEOC meet, which is a surprise, but a little all around tired ( which isn't surprising).