Running Scared

Happy Halloween runners! It's my favourite holiday of the year.

It's also school's favourite time to hit you with every assignment and responsibility at once, unfortunately. As such I've been a pile of apathy, hairpulling, laptop-techinician-ing and all-around ineffective 23 year old. Hence the lack of posts (and obviously the lack of runs) in the last two days.

Speaking of school, I believe today marks the offical end of the evaluative period of this blog - I wonder if my motivation to run will fall apart without the mutually reinforcing need to post on this blog. I would like to not think so; it's been hopeful period for me insofar as believing in my ability to get in better shape, but I also have an extensive history of only briefly succeeding with this sort of motivation.

But that's an aside. Tonight was a good run. A hard run though. In Toronto again, and so I didn't really know how to plan out my route. I tried to make it not so treacherously hill-infested as last time and failed miserably. I ended up running up and down one 2.5 km hill and then back up and down it a couple blocks down. Toronto hills are expansive. Knowing this though, I only planned out a 5k.

It was nice to run through rich neighbourhoods though and see all the magnificent decorations. Huge displays of cartoon nightmare characters and likewise looking kids everywhere. The only problem was that I way overdressed - a tech jacket shell and a knit hoodie. I kept running and trying to figure out awkard combinations of wearing them that would make me cool as possible. In the end I managed to shove the entire sweater in one of the coat pockets (the pocketspace actually goes all the way to the chest) and sort of only having it zipped at the bottom. I looked like a right idiot, but at least I could stay cool enough not to look even stupider (read: huffing and puffing like a geriatric). That's one problem with Toronto - there's lots of people everywhere when you're running. I can't keep the appearance of being and old pro at this up that often!

The stats: 5.1 kilometers, 29.50 minutes, 2 huge hills.
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Albums bumped while running: The Strokes Is This It?

Stay truely terrifying!

"Time to make my pay..."

"...but put some away for an off-beat day."
- Dizzee Rascal

Yesterday a sudden case of remarking all the assignments for the class I am a Teacher's Assistant for results in me not getting any running done. Spent the day adjusting my rubrics until it was time to catch my Greyhound down to Toronto to visit my girlfriend. By the time we had eaten and gotten back from Downtown, it was already 11:00 at night.

Also everyone has been telling me that I shouldn't run more than five times a week. My thighs felt like rocks made of pain yesterday - I actually wanted to be running around, or just moving quickly, as when I walked slowly (read: down stairs) it was sometimes excruciating.

Anyways, I'm about to make up for it (or not be having a resting day, depending) by going out for my first run in Canada's biggest city. Using the pedometer again, I've mapped out a route of 3.263 kms. Probably a bit less than my last run, but this is a hill-infested area, so I imagine it may be more difficult anyways. Plus it was just sort of hard figuring out a route that made sense/I could remember.

A report to follow when I return.

I was very good yesterday. I ate papaya salad and fresh rolls for lunch, sushi for dinner, Thai-style pineapple shake for dessert.

Alternatively, I was very bad yesterday about spending too much money at asian restaurants.

Stay True.