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April 6, 2006
Bright and windy
I overdressed a little this morning to make up for my shorts-in-the-snow mistake yesterday. I heard the wind chimes blowing around when I woke up so I assumed it was pretty windy, although Boston.com didn't mention it. It was a pretty morning though, nice and sunny, and I decided to chance the wind and run by the river anyway. I saw 4 or 5 crew boats out, although I couldn't identify which team they were from (BU, MIT and Harvard all have boat houses in the same general area.) The wind wasn't terrible, and the temperature was warm enough so that the gusts didn't bother me too much (maybe I'm just getting used to the wind??) I've been feeling like I need to slow down on some of my recovery runs and I tried to take it really easy today and just relax. I felt okay at some points and then just kind of sluggish at others. I find that when I run by myself, I think too much. I'm also worried about the marathon--the weather, the fact that my legs don't feel that great, concerns about having blown it by running the National Marathon, etc.--and I'm sure that is playing with my mind, which is in turn causing me to have some bad runs.
Anyway, enough negativity. The rest of my day was pretty good, if not too exciting: did some work in the morning; went to school in the afternoon and then to MIT. It was very hot in the gym today and I was sweating (even more than usual.) I was wearing my Cornell Athletics stolen t-shirt to lift and I had a weird moment when I looked in the mirror and saw another guy wearing one, too. I guess I could have asked him, "What sport did you play at Cornell?" but I wasn't that motivated and apparently he wasn't either since he didn't ask me! After lifting I hung out at track practice for a bit. There were a lot of pre-frosh around since this weekend is visiting weekend for accepted students. They are all so smart and choosing between schools like Princeton, Harvard and MIT. What a choice! (I applied early decision to Cornell so I never really had to make a decision. I imagine it would be tough.)
I'm glad it's almost the weekend, but I have so much work to do, especially because my parents and sister will be in town next week for Passover and I want to spend time with them. So...back to work!
Posted by becky at April 6, 2006 7:21 PM
Comments
This Wind thing: an almost immediate theoretical solution. I wonder if large, like very large trees, like building-high, with lots and lots of strong fall-proofed photochromatic foliage (right season - right color with possible special event color options, say day-glo themes for concerts), planted (anchored down) on the edge of cities and other intelligent locations, could solve the runner's wind problem... I think you and several others would be really happy. And still, if the Wind was needed to clear the air they could have collapsable relatively motorized branches and leaves to let the air through. Get some of those prefrosh to work. Widescale, planet-wide Reforestation would be the other option...
Posted by: corrado giambalvo at April 7, 2006 5:22 AM
Luckily, even if you did screw up Boston a little by running the National Marathon, you already ran a PR! But I think you will run fast. Good luck!!
Posted by: barb at April 7, 2006 10:23 AM