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- run 10.01 km in 50:23

- stretch

40.2 km over past seven days. working back up to 50 km/week. visited some gyms today, found the one i'll join (anytime fitness stratford east). once i've settled into an apartment and figured out my school routine, plan is to re-introduce gym work in anticipation of a winter focused a bit more on strenf/power and a bit less on cardio, before shifting back in the spring when the weather and light suck less. hopefully with a bit more muscle and a bit more speed. also probably will get a bike and go to/from school that way at least some days. the commute is about 80-90 minutes round trip. not sure how that'll affect training. i've been running to the exclusion of nearly anything else for a long time now. might not hurt to mix things up for a few months. not abandon running altogether, of course, just redirect a bit of energy.

cool story bro: a friend of my mom's from graduate school is one of the world's leading experts on ants. this lady: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_M._Gordon

wednesday

- run 11.47km in 59:02
ran to and then around in victoria park. beautiful, got turned around a few times, went a bit farther than i intended.

- stretch

thursday

- walk a lot
spent most of the day wandering around london while gf studied. wouldn't ordinarily log but i walked at least 12-13 km over the course of the day, which is much above normal. the last time i walked that much and then tried to run a normal amount afterward i hurt my shin. hence no run yesterday on top of the walking.

WHOOPS-A-DAISY!

https://deadspin.com/team-usa-dropkicked-out-of-world-cup-by-rudy-gobert-and-1838036087

France is no pushover, and this version of Team USA is one of the weakest ever assembled, but any team that scores just five points in the last eight minutes of a game while surrendering 22 is a team that should be embarrassed.

Quote from: LBSS on September 10, 2019, 08:44:14 am

- run 9.43 km in 52:59
first 4km with gf, extra slow because she was struggling on the back-to-back. explored olympic park, it's nice. about 1.5km in the other direction from where we're staying from the park we ran to yesterday, and more pleasant to get to (less time on busy roads).

- stretch

Canal path in the Olympic Park is where I fucked up my ankle in a pothole, so watch out for that

duly noted.

i think because of the grill thing you have to root for the falcons now. (arthur blank owns home depot and the falcons.)

adarq come over for the london marathon next year. 26 april 2020.

- run 4.6 km in 28:30
with gf, hence slow and short, just exploring and loosening up. jet lag pretty bad last two nights. better something than nothing. wansted flats has some dirt paths, which are nice at least in the woods (by the council flats there's a lot of trash) but it's not lit and there was almost no one there -- okay for me to run alone but gf wouldn't be comfortable. gukl, what's your gf think of living here?

- stretch

Quote from: LBSS on September 05, 2019, 04:46:30 pm

got visa, leaving for london in ~15 minutes. our expected place to stay tonight fell through and i can't reach my gf now to confirm booking an airbnb so might have to leave for the airport without knowing my actual destination tomorrow, lol. heeeere we go.

i missed this, you're moving to London? when did this happen - belgium was the plan last i read (or is london just en-route?)

i'll be down there quite a bit over the next few months as my gf is currently living there, lets park run!

happened over the summer, gf decided that she wasn't ready for grad school and that removed the main reason we'd do belgium: master's costs $2000 there rather than $25-30,000 here. (she's british but doesn't qualify for home tuition because she hasn't been living here in the past three years.) so i'm starting a master's at UCL in a couple weeks.

anyway, park run for sure. or chase the sun? i've done one of the latter, they have chip timing. now that i'm in a place where there are lots of races, i like the idea of doing what adarq doing a while back, running a bunch and using races mainly as a "hard" training day. maybe park runs to train and chase the sun runs to attempt PR, because they're expensive but chip timed and therefore more legit? will consider. lots up in the air at the moment, but i'm gonna start training again ASAP. it's so nice and cool here, can't wait to run.

want to do one next weekend? i'm out near leyton, so hackney marshes, walthamstow, and wansted flats all look pretty close. latter the most so.

Quote from: LBSS on September 05, 2019, 04:46:30 pm

got visa, leaving for london in ~15 minutes. our expected place to stay tonight fell through and i can't reach my gf now to confirm booking an airbnb so might have to leave for the airport without knowing my actual destination tomorrow, lol. heeeere we go.

oh shit! i hope that works out all right tonight! am afraid i'm not able to offer you a place to stay as i'm not in town tonight, but if you need a hand getting settled in the coming weeks hmu

thanks man. we found a great airbnb, thank god. gonna be here the next few weeks while we look for places to live. we'll probably end up in the east, mile end/bow or out here. where's your gf live?