September 2011
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tonight's hill run: by the numbers
miles: 7.76
minutes earlier the sun set than I thought it would: approximately 60
particularly intimidating ridiculous hills I never thought I’d run up but did: 1
men with jogging strollers that passed me going up said hill, making me feel significantly less accomplished: 1
rats scurrying out of the sewer in front of me on that hill: 1
percentage of the time I was convinced I was...
August 2011
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Melissa's favorite things: the Maryland Wind... →
Every Maryland Day I would try to con people into going to the wind tunnel with me and every year I would manage to miss it, getting distracted by things like giving campus tours and visiting the cow with the hole in it. My dreams finally came true my senior year, when the impending end of my college career motivated me to finally experience the magic. To prepare people for the wrath of...
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Sorrow - The National
Y’all, with the...
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Smithsonian's Life List →
I blame the above for making me want to go whale watching in Newfoundland immediately and bringing up the sore subject of the sunrise* at Machu Picchu.
(I remain okay with not going anywhere near those abnormally giant Antarctic penguins though.)
*my experience: awake at 3 a.m., an hour of waiting at the gate for the trail to open, two hours of hiking, pouring rain, no sunrise
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today in oatmeal
Once again, my oatmeal packet had the inexplicable trivia question asking about Charlene from Designing Women’s hometown. I maintain that this is insanely random and at no point was this ever common enough knowledge (unlike, say, Rose Nylund’s homeland of St. Olaf) to warrant inclusion as a trivia option, even if I give them (them being the oatmeal packet designers, naturally) the...
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NYC Marathon Training: Week Two!
Week two on the schedule, week one of actually attempting what was prescribed. A week in which after-work activities threatened to jeopardize my running aspirations.
Scheduled vs. Actual:
Monday - rest > rest
Tuesday - 4 miles easy (10:04 pace) > gold star for getting up before work and fitting in 4 miles (9:04 pace) (It helped that my new phone came in so I could once again listen to...
