Author: cheerfulchaotic

Being in DC didn’t help me work out, despite the warmer weather.

Thursday morning, I ran 4 miles in 45 minutes. I started out running east, because that had to be the way to the capitol and was very confused when I encountered the stadium station. I ran south, then north, then a little further east, and yup, there weas the stadium and the river. Had a “duh” moment and turned around and ran west. I wasn’t in Chicago. The capitol was west. Ran around the library of congress and back to my host’s place.

Due to late friday world of warcraft, I didn’t make it to Saturday morning frontrunners. Sunday morning provided me with a little coaching. Ran one mile in 9:30ish. Then he watched my form for another mile which I ran in 7:11.(1:48, 1:50, 1:51, 1:52 splits) (I so could not run 10 miles at that pace.) He suggested I might want to try working on rolling more and stomping less, as well as opening up my torso rather than hunching forward, but that otherwise I seemed to be running with pretty good form. (thank you fleet feet for the new shoes).

My roommate is moving to LA. His new job starts april 14th. He’ll pay the rent through may 1, the end of our lease. Le Sigh. I kinda wanted to stay in Chicago until June or July. This makes that more complicated.

This past week I got the verbal okay to move to Seattle while retaining my job. And, frankly, nobody seems to care when I go from that end. Though there are the non-work (and probably some work) people here who want me to never leave. Not easy.

I could sublet for a couple months here. That involves moving twice within a short span of time, but I’m no stranger to that.

Then again, I could just go. Move to Seattle. Come back and visit a couple times. The money saved from the move should be sufficient for a discount round trip some weekend.

Or find someone to take over his spot for two months. I can put up with most people for two months. My desires in this regard are unclear.

• Well, tuesday I swam 1km. That is a pathetically short distance, fyi. Barely more than a warmup from high school. But I only had 25ish minutes, so there you go. (dinner at Nick’s)
• Saturday, I made it late to front runners, and decided to go for low speed distance. 6.5ish miles in about 1 hour and 15 minutes. Long distance (for me, perhaps the longest I’ve run in my life at one go) and definitely low speed. By the end I was feeling it more in my knees than my calves, but I was definitely done.
• Today, I ran ~2.5 miles in under 25 minutes. Still not fast, and not very long either. Sad. Faster than most of the people on the indoor track though, which leaves me somewhat unimpressed.
• And a fair amount of biking as transportation in there too.

Sunday was board games

I hear you have questions. I may have answers, let us see if we can make some sort of arrangement. =)

Sucktacular. Sore throat. Vaguely post-nasal-drip-ish. Definitely no fever. I think this means I have no good excuse for not running. Which is a good thing, actually.

This American Life and the Savage Lovecast are entertaining, but if I’m going to fuel my running habit with podcasts, I need something more than 1.5-2 hours / week.

I’ve tried the weekly geek, which wasn’t bad. Many have recommended feast of fools, but that’s kinda enh. If I could get the TED talks on my cowon, that’d be pretty awesome. Independent radio oklahoma did introduce me to some neat songs and bands that I doubt I would have found otherwise, but the signal to noise ratio kinda blows.

Something science and/or tech oriented seems like a decent addition. A straight up news podcast might be good too.

Watch the oral arguments before CA’s supreme court re: same sex marriage.

I found it very interesting. Maybe being a lawyer could be fun. Heh.