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.
Adam said,
September 22, 2007 @ 4:17 pm
“Use of the pool itself as a toilet is reserved for toddlers 4 and under.” Heh.
Patrick said,
September 22, 2007 @ 4:32 pm
Uh oh - now that all my data are belong to the internets I might need to be more careful about some of that
Extracting the data from google was a hassle!
Howard said,
September 24, 2007 @ 5:51 pm
Do you stop at the cafe after you’ve been running? So you order coffee while you’re dripping with sweat? That might contribute to the terrible ambience you mention…
Patrick said,
September 24, 2007 @ 10:58 pm
No - it’s Zoka that has the terrible ambiance and it’s the college students working there who don’t care about service, the mediocre coffee, and the pool of laptop zombies patronizing it that make it such a bad place to hang out. Herkimer is just fine - I only wish they stayed open past 6!
Adam said,
November 15, 2007 @ 4:36 pm
See also: http://www.thebathroomdiaries.com/
Adam said,
November 15, 2007 @ 4:37 pm
Hrm, I should have clarified that they don’t offer any kind of map, just a list of locations.
http://www.thebathroomdiaries.com/usa/washington/seattle.html
Patrick said,
November 15, 2007 @ 4:41 pm
on the one hand, you’re weirding me out. On the other - I laughed when I read this page…
http://www.thebathroomdiaries.com/usa/minnesota/minneapolis.html
…and saw “requires a ‘wide stance’”