Winter Training Week 3 (2nd Week December)

12/7/09 – Moderate Lacy Long way with Riley. Felt surprisingly good. Meanwhile I’m procrastinating on finals. Ooops.
Miles: 4.1

12/8/09 – In Ph 5 Ta meeting all day, early to bed, no run. Still procrastinating on finals.
Miles: 0

12/9/09 – Huntington up los Robles with Riley, felt unusually tired in the legs given the day off. Now I have to a big stat mech final. Hmm… On the bright side, things are surprisingly exciting on the correspondence front with some profs at Harvard.
Miles: 7.6

12/10/09 – Rough final. I’ve come to the conclusion I should study more. Didn’t sleep too much. Easy quick run around arden and part way down to Lacy park. With all the finalling, there has been lots of music. New favorite song: John Adams’s Harmonielehre: III Meister Eckhart and Quackie.
Miles: 2.7

12/11/09 – Run in the rain on the arroyo with Clara and Perrin. A chance encounter at the very beginning with the big D, Dennis, brought him along with us too! Felt really shit for the first half of the run, compartments swelled stiff on the sides of my lower leg again. The way back was decently better and even feeling decent by the very end. Need to catch up on sleep on finals.
Miles: 6.3

12/12/09 – A nice run in the pouring rain, felt much better today. Running was definitely slowed by soggy ground, but it was very enjoyable, thoroughly soaked. Some sort of Madre/San Gabriel to Huntington up Virginia connection. Pretty tired by the end.
Miles: 6.3

12/13/09 – Run with Clara part way up brown mountain road. We were going to try for the waterfall, but that was definitely closed, so we went up brown mountain. Limited by daylight, a nice shorter run with some steep climbing. http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=3365888
Miles: 4.5

Weekly Miles: 31.5

12/14/09 – Road trip to Baja got lost and ended u spending the night in rural farmcountry from 300 pesos.
Miles: 0

12/15/09- Epic epic day – San Quitin to Ensenada to San Felipe to Mexicali to San Diego to Pasadena. Fish tacos and coronas on the sea of cortez. Doesn’t get much better. Saw a guy running that morning, inspiring.
Miles: 0 (600 driving)

12/16/09 – Flying home to Maryland, running errands and packing in the morning. No run, oops.
Miles: 0

12/17/09 – Home is nice, cold. The Robert Frost loop. Use to think it was much longer: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=3370901 . Cold air (below 30 F) will take some getting used to, otherwise felt great. Boston tomorrow, hopefully a run with Cameron.
Miles: 5.4