Did the usual run around the neighborhood. This was pretty disappointing, because I wasn't really expecting to do a run today so much as a canoe trip. Thanks for the letdown, Irene. Worst. Disaster. Ever.
On Thursday, someone broke into my parents' car (which I was using) to steal the GPS. I found out when I was leaving school, and spent the rest of the day dealing with it. That set me behind for studying for my prelim on Saturday, so Friday I spent all day freaking out and trying to figure out all of EM. Then, Saturday, I took the anticlimactic test (it was pretty easy), but then didn't run because there was a hurricane.
I felt really drained today after dealing with administrative things at school. I also got so wrapped up in them that I didn't eat lunch and was pretty depleted by running time. Consequently, I just tried to get through this run. I took my now-typical route from my parents' house.
I took today off, except for walking through sketchy sections of Baltimore because I was carpooling into the city with my dad, then the bus wouldn't stop for me.
Repeated yesterday's run.
Today was pretty much an endless stream of failures. I was late to the first day of school because there was lots of traffic. Then I couldn't find any parking, and when I did it was $15. Then I got lost. No problem. I foresaw this difficulty the night before and loaded a map onto my Kindle. But in the morning, the Kindle wouldn't turn on. I showed up to grad school orientation an hour late and mumbled something about getting stuck in a forest, and everyone laughed at me. Then I couldn't get the keys to my office or the building because I didn't have enough cash for the key security deposit. I couldn't find my graduate student mentor, so I ate lunch alone in a corner. My victory for the day came when, during lab TA orientation, I correctly identified the probability of rolling either a 1 or a 2 with a die, but I quavered on the expected number of 1's or 2's in ten rolls. Then I couldn't figure out how to use Excel to make histograms. Then I got really bored and tried to make an arch out of 20 dice, but failed. Then we all got locked out of the building, and I was the only one who didn't have a key. Then I got lost again trying to find my way back to the $15 dollar parking, where the machine wouldn't accept my credit card and I got trapped in the garage before sitting in traffic for another hour.
So yeah, after that I went for a run. It was pretty cool.
I've moved to Baltimore, where I plan to stay for quite some time. I guess that makes it a decent time to take a crack at starting up this blog again.
30 minutes starting and ending at my parents house, staying on grass medians.
gmaps pedometer
I felt fine. Warmed up easily and kept steady and unstrained.
It was wet and hot following an impressive afternoon thunderstorm. I don't think I ran quickly at all, although gmaps pedometer + imprecise reading from the stove clock suggests sub-7:00 average pace. If that calculation has any meaningful implications, I'm just going to ignore them like you do the nutritional information at McDonalds.
