Saturday Aug 18 |
 | road run 1:27:00 [3] 10.0 mi (8:41 / mi) | |
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| Certainly an interesting run for me. I started the day after many hours of playing on the internet, trying to stay in touch with the racing going on in Kiev. Then hopped a ride with Jenn and her roomate to Good Harbor Beach in Rockport. The skies were a bit overcast at 2pm when we left, but the day was gorgeous when we got to the shore. Perfect for sitting by the dunes and playing Raj, and then Bacci Ball. lot's of time to sit and enjoy a class of surfers wiping out on the waves and a couple of dudes with metal detectors looking for dimes. It must take years for those things to pay for themselves. We convinced Jenn to do no-handed cartwheels on the sand, and that's my new ambition for a good talent to learn. we headed home and I went into fenway to do the Tomb adventure show with a couple of college friends.
Tomb was really fun but only if you were able to keep a good mindset. It's a guided egypt themed puzzle challenge. Lot's of different kinds of puzzles are used and some fun special effects. We had a group of young kids with us, and the youngest ones started crying when they filled the chamber with dry ice and snake sounds. So they had to leave. We also had to complete a 4 piece version of Hanoi's Tower with a time limit. The time limit was the ceiling slowly sinking toward the floor trying to crush us. Apparently if you don't solve the puzzle in time, you really do "die" and get escorted out the "death tunnel" which would be sad because you would miss out on some of the other puzzles later on.
Anyways, after the show we headed up to sommerville to play some games at their appartment. The game we chose was called Robo Rally and was really fun, but took awhile to finish (2 am). Since Boston is so bad about the T, I decided to run home. I still had a lot of my beach stuff with me in my backpack so I ran with bacci balls bouncing in the small of my back the whole time. It's really quite nice to run at night here, because it's cool, but everything is so well lit. I did a bit of a memory-o, which is why the run lasted so long, I took the long way around a lot when I was on the North Side of the river. still, It was good to get a run in, and convenient that it also got me home tonight.
I think I'm going to give up now ( 5 am) on trying to get my computer to give me WOC results from the long quali, and go to bed. Go USA!! |
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| C • Jenn and the relays 4 |
Friday Aug 17 |
| road run 51:50 [3] 6.0 mi (8:38 / mi) | |
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| Oh snap! look at me and my second day of running to work. I think running with a pack is good rogaine training, and that's about it. My shoulders are sore from yesterday's jaunt w/ pack, but it will probably pass if I keep up the running routine. Certainly 6 miles of running per day is way better orienteering training than 12 miles of biking.
on a side note, I'm glad that Sam left her iPod shuffle when she headed to Kiev. It took me all of a week to dump all of her contents and repopulate the thing with different music. I'll have to be nice to her and hope she doesn't notice when she gets back, otherwise I'm in big trouble :) |
Thursday Aug 16 |
| road run 50:50 [3] 6.0 mi (8:28 / mi) | |
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| Bike is good and truly busted.... well it's sub-functional. Rear spokes are super loose, and the rim is not maintaining shape any longer. So I motivated and ran to work instead. I think I should get some sort of reward for not taking the easy way out and going by T. Actually I did go see Bourne after work which sorta counts as a reward. I kinda want to buy a moped and practice driving around urban centers now :)
the run was nice, listening to music though, so I guess it only counts as a jog. The sweating was a bit out of control, but I was saved by a cold shower at work. apart from having to leave the house earlier, this is an okay way to get to work. |
Wednesday Aug 15 |
| road run 57:30 [3] 6.5 mi (8:51 / mi) | |
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| Pre Game night run. Jenn and I were feeling pretty excited about running, and so we did the "commonwealth Ave loop". The rule is that when we run from brookline Jenn is in charge of where we go, and when we run from Newton I'm in charge. The commonweath ave part of the loop was awesome, very nice to run down the middle on the grass chatting about stuff. Jenn has this habit of running back along Rt. 9 though which is a gross road, and it would be well worth it to add on more miles to avoid this section of the loop.
It looked like just the two of us for game night when we got back... but then Michelle came home and Dan showed up. The perfect number for take-out thai and Rummikube! Finally got a chance to get the udon n curry dish at coconut cafe. Amazing, everything I thought it could be. mmmm. now I want more.
oh, plus I won at rummikube! |
| biking 1:10:00 [3] 13.0 mi (5:23 / mi) | |
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| biking to work and then to Jenn's and then home. back wheel is freaking out, and I should put some time into bike maintenance soon. I'm not good at getting motivated to work on my bike or at knowing what to do. Pretty much I've got a can of WD-40 and that's the majority of my interference :)
On the way home I stopped to let a pure-bred possum cross my path. At least it looked pure-bred because it had messed up hips, just like a golden retriever. More likely that the poor guy had already been hit by a car and that was the reason for the "hip dysplasia". |
Tuesday Aug 14 |
| biking 1:00:00 [3] 12.0 mi (4:59 / mi) | |
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| biking to and from work. since I'm logging this on Friday I can't remember anything special about what I did on Tuesday. I stopped off at the shaws on the way home because I really wanted a salad for dinner. I got bagged lettuce, grape tomatoes, an avocado, smoked mozzarella, cottage cheese with chives, and chicken to cook and toss on top. mmm garnish with sunflower seeds and banana peppers.
now I want thai food and banana peppers. I need to take a break from back logging and go feed myself. |
Monday Aug 13 |
| biking 1:00:00 [3] 12.0 mi (4:59 / mi) | |
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| biking to and from work. good times. sometimes I wonder how much faster I could go if I were on a nice road bike instead of a mediocre mountain bike.
trader joe's on the way home to find food to feed myself. cooking for one is way harder than cooking for two. Come home Sam, right now I'm cooking for two and then eating for us both. I ended up settling on buying some sausage and grape tomatoes, alfredo sauce and sliced mushrooms. I arrived at this solution by walking around the store and buying things that I wanted to eat. Figured that I could put them all together in a serviceable way when I made it home. |
Sunday Aug 12 |
| biking 40:00 [3] 9.5 mi (4:12 / mi) | |
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| Not really sure how long I spent biking around. I hit up a couple of hardware stores on my quest for a replacement sliding drawer bracket. We have a bathroom cabinet drawer that has been broken for a couple of weeks, and I figured that it would be an easy fix. turns out not to have been as straight forward as I would have liked, but Harvey's Hardware in Needham Center has pretty much anything you could want, including these plastic bits. The drawer is now "fixed". Mission accomplished. |