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Sunday, October 24, 2010

Workout Completed. Distance, 8 miles.

Friday Morning. 11-ish o'clock.
I put on my running attire (blue ear warmer headband thingy, striped fingerless gloves, bright yellow shirt (which looks awesome on a pasty white girl), and hot pink pants), busted out of the hotel and hit the streets. I think my mom is stuck in the 80s, unless the drug dealers take the weekend off to spend time with their families.

I ran on the streets for a half mile or so, past restaurants and laundry mats and psychic places and NYU students. Eventually, I hit a running path along the water near the West Side Highway.

I didn't take this picture (thanks Google images), but this is where I was running and it looked the same. It was beautiful. Blue sky. Blue water. Big bridge. There were people fishing, biking, and NYU guys playing soccer- obviously plenty of things to keep my mind completely occupied. Around mile 4 though, my mind got bored. The fishers were annoying, the bikers were annoying, the NYU soccer players were not annoying, but their practice ended. Yes, mile 4 was a tough one. After mile 4 and 5, I pushed through 6, 7, and 8 pretty easily. 8 Miles woot woot!

Side note- The last half mile I looked down to check my distance. My phone read 7.91 so I picked up the pace (wanted to finish strong ya know) and when I looked down, ohh 30 seconds later, it was still frozen on 7.91. Being the genius that I am, I started running faster. As you might have guessed, this didn't do anything. Although I knew I had run 8 miles, I needed the iphone voice to say in my ear- "Workout completed. Distance, 8 miles." I just could not handle listening to her say "Distance, 7.91 Miles." So after messing with the app for a couple minutes, I finally fixed the issue and finished my last .09. You don't know how gratifying it was to hear "Workout completed. Distance, 8 miles."

As promised- Debugging the bed footage

Got back to Dallas yesterday and...
RAN MY FIRST RACE THIS MORNING!
It deserves it's own post, but I must go watch "Teen Mom" so check the blog later tonight.

3 comments:

  1. Great video! Did you mention the light does not get rid of the human detritus left by sleazy, sexed-up guests? Did you guys bring your own sheets? The hotel looked kind of (uhhh) rustic, but the sheets were upper echelon cute.

    Congrats on the 8 miles! I totally relate to having your accomplishment confirmed by your phone lady. You may have even run more than eight!

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  2. Sterling. I love your blog. Also, you should know, I got bed bug bites a month ago in a hotel, and my ankles turned into kankles so big I couldn't put on shoes. And then I couldn't walk. And then my dr. told me I had lymes disease. Now I'm just on lots and lots of steriods, but the point remains.

    And I'd like to reiterate that I love your blog. When I don't feel like going on my run (or I can't fit my puffed up feet in my running shoes) I read about yours :)

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  3. I'm just glad you didn't put that pillow on the video. Ew. Also moms cracks me up. She bought the privacy sign btw. Like, legit asked if she could buy it.

    They gave it to her for free. She was happier about that privacy sign than any of the other nyc purchases I'm pretty sure. Figures.

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