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- run 21.11 km in 1:54:58
distance PR by almost a mile. it was so nice out yesterday that i thought i'd go for a half marathon today. take it nice and easy, just get the distance. but it was hotter than i thought it'd be. stubbornly persisted but i was dragging at the end: last two km were 6:17 and 5:39. overall average 5:27 is pretty slow.

- stretch

wrecked. i had to take a nap and now have a slight headache, which i'm sure is from not being able to rehydrate fast enough. if and when i ever do a half marathon time trial, i'm gonna drive to the C&O canal and just do an out and back on the flatness. same plan for 5k time trial. on that note: i'm thinking about doing a road trip next month to visit some people in massachusetts and new york. tentative idea is to start around the 10th. so might be cool to target the 9th as a day to test my 5k. then again i bet i'll have plenty of time to run on the road trip. maybe it'd be better to treat the road trip as a taper week and then test when i get back. tbd.

- warm up; 400m intervals in (78, 81, 85, 84, 86, 84, 85, 79) w/3:00 rest; cool down
T+DI 130. felt great. a little humid still but so much cooler. once it gets into the 50s and dries up a little...oh baby. did these much faster than last week. felt each interval a little more still no struggle to complete. next weekend i'll switch to 500s with the same rest interval, unless for some reason it goes back to being really hot and humid.

- stretch

well, yesterday there was massive flooding in my area. so i did not, in the event, "try again tomorrow." this was the next town over:



other places nearby had it worse.

anyway, today was cooler than it's been but still very humid.

- run 8.03 km in 49:01
T+DI 144. cruised at 4:51 average pace, including 5:01 for the first km and 5:10 on the long climb that makes up the penultimate km. felt great.

- stretch

so damn humid that even though it's not even 80 degrees i'm sweating 5 minutes after getting out of the shower.

pretty thrilled for azarenka to beat serena, finally exorcise that demon. i watched the first set and then the first 4-5 games of the second set and it really did look like azarenka had flipped a switch and turned into a different player. wonder if serena's really hurt or if she was just going to the trainer to save face when it was clear that azarenka was cruising late.

i love serena but it's cool to see someone get a win after so long being dominated by a rival. not sure who i'd rather win the final. osaka is so fun but what a story if azarenka wins majors seven years apart, after having a kid and not winning a single match in 2019!

seems to me lebron is carrying this team every bit as much as he carried cleveland 15 years ago. AD is a better player than any teammate he had back then but if i just feel like if it were AD's team they'd already have been knocked out, or maybe not even made the bubble. he's just missing something that lebron and very few other players have. that ability to just decide to take over, and then do it, on both O and D. who else in the NBA has that gear right now? maybe kawhi?

Ok tough guy. How about try proving me wrong?

nope, you're a racist, bad-faith arguing right-wing troll.

lmao great save

Happy National Read A Book Day, everybody! These are the books I've read so far this year, including two in progress:

1. The Mother Tongue, by Bill Bryson
2. The Mushroom at the End of the World, by Anna Tsing
3. The Anarchy, by William Dalrymple
4. Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel
5. Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino
6. The Three-Body Problem, by Cixin Liu
7. The Dark Forest, by Cixin Liu
8. Death's End, by Cixin Liu
9. West With the Night, by Beryl Markham
10. Passing, by Nella Larsen
11. Parable of the Sower, by Octavia Butler
12. On Anarchism, by Noam Chomsky
13. The Mirror and the Light, by Hilary Mantel
14. The Underground Village, by Kang Kyeong-ae
15. Decolonizing Wealth, by Edgar Villanueva
16. Fifth Business, by Robertson Davies
17. What Terrorists Want, by Louise Richardson
18. In the Heart of the Sea, by Nathaniel Philbrick
19. Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro
20. The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death, by Daniel Pinkwater
21. Possibilities, by David Graeber
22. The Veiled One, by Ruth Rendell
23. Faithful Place, by Tana French
24. The Participation Reader, edited by Andrea Cornwall
25. The Secret Place, by Tana French
26. The Fifth Season, by NK Jemisin
27. The Obelisk Gate, by NK Jemisin
28. The Stone Sky, by NK Jemisin
29. Are Prisons Obsolete?, by Angela Davis
30. The Black Count, by Tom Reiss
31. Get Shorty, by Elmore Leonard
32. The Fire This Time, edited by Jesmyn Ward
33. 1Q84, by Haruki Murakami

I loved both of the trilogies in there. A few other gems as well. Pretty good hit rate so far this year, really.