Busy-ness
The past couple days have been busy with a mix of interesting and just busy.
I felt great heading out to Saturday’s long run and asked Chuck what I should do. He suggested 13 miles so that’s what I did. Finally. I haven’t done a straightforward easy pace 13 miler on a Saturday in over a month and that time it was the longest run I’d ever done in my life. And it felt hard a month ago. But Saturday it really didn’t feel like enough. We did the Shilshole route and back up Stone Way and I had to cruise up Stone Way to feel like I was getting my work in for the day. So I asked Chuck if I could run again Sunday, which is kind of dumb. I think I’m starting to finally get that the answer to “Hey, I’m feeling pretty good and want to work more, is that OK with you?” is always “Yes.” So Sunday I went around the lake and did a 20 minute tempo run. And that’s totally, totally different now than it was a month ago, which was the last time I had a tempo run in my schedule and when I had way different expectations of my abilities. I’d done the Firecracker at about 6:50 minute miles so I was doing tempo runs at 7:10 minute miles. Now I don’t know what my 5K time should be but I know it’s way faster than I did the Firecracker so I aimed for 6:30 minute miles in the tempo and wound up doing it at 6:24. And THAT felt good.
Tegan and Sara came with me on the run - The Con is awesome.
I spent the rest of the weekend priming, painting, and hanging doors on the new shed on the back of our house. It’s coming along nicely and almost done! I just need to decide - blueish like the house, or yellow? My samples should be dry by the afternoon. Sunday was cookout and frisbee golf in the H-district.
Yesterday I started work again! Very exciting and fun. The environment seems great and I’ve had a totally good vibe about all the guys each time I’ve been in. However I came home and found Io not adjusting to being left home that well. He left a monumental turd next to the computer and, I later discovered, wet the floor at the bottom of the stairs. Thanks, buddy! But more importantly, I’ll say again that the Bissell SpotBot should come standard with every puppy.
This morning I took Io on a jog for the first time in well over a month, since I upped the mileage. A short run in the park in the morning isn’t too much to add on to my schedule and it’s just right for him so I figured I’d go for it even though I’ve got track work later tonight. It was awesome. I really miss running with him and he totally loves it, too.
The rest of the morning I’ve spent consolidating my google accounts. This is just a bunch of stupidness but basically I had my “home” account as a google account, but then I started using google domain hosting for psoul.com and re-created the “home” account there. This resulted in google knowing about two home’s at psoul.com, which confused it. It seems like it *should* be easy to say “take all the mojo from the old account and consolidate it into the new one” but it’s not. So I had to modify the old account so it looked distinct from the new account. Then from the old account change all of its sharing settings (calendar, documents, etc.) so that nothing was shared with “home” and then re-share with “home”. Now I think it’s all basically moved over and I’m close to being able to retire the old account.
During this time, the new Weakerthans album and some Feist have accompanied me. I’m totally on a Canadian kick.
Good times!