Saturday
A couple recent developments of no particular importance
- Herkimer Coffee is now open around the corner from my house. I was totally excited by this because one of my updated running routes takes me past their Phinney location and I’ve wanted to go there but it’s always been closed. But it turns out this branch is only open till 6 every day, too. Drat. And they have one power outlet. I’d love for some coffee shop in the neighborhood to stay open till midnight or 1. Ideally one without lousy service and a terrible ambiance. But until that happens I can keep cruising to Bauhaus which is and will probably continue to be my favorite coffee shop ever.
- I Sennheiser HD202’s in the mail today. I don’t know much about really good headphones which is why I didn’t want to spend more than about $20 on a pair and just trusted the user ratings. These are massively sweet. I must always ensure that I have a decent pair of headphones in my list of tangible possessions throughout the rest of my life. Few things could be more satisfying than listening to Thunder Road on a sweet pair of cans.
- Today was a relatively easy 12 miler. I did most of the run with Jay-a-resa and felt good throughout. I’m already feeling a little antsy about the taper, though, so I’m going to run the Fremont Oktoberfest 5k tomorrow. I’ll aim to finish in under 20, which should do all of: be a personal best, be pretty easy (give me room to set future personal bests), take the edge off, and give me a hankering for the festival that afternoon!
- I’ve been doing some web work for the coach that I think will totally help out the website and he seems pretty happy with it. It’s way easier for him to enter new training schedules for upcoming marathons and I’m working on some more google maps integration for our run routes and my pioneering work in Seattle runners’ lavatory and drinking fountain cartography. It’s still got a little ways to go, but it’s already pretty sweet.