Woke ~9AM, lazed a bit before deciding to get an egg+chz and catch the 10:30 showing of Iron Man 3 at Shadowood. It's been out a few weeks and time to get the theater experience was probably getting short. $8 is a tolerable movie ticket price; another $6 for a large popcorn is extortionate. I went with a $2.50 small coffee. I was favorably impressed with the story and the pacing was better than Avengers. I thought the kid was cast a couple years too young and Stark's "no need to be a pussy about it" line bothered me in that context. I do like that we saw a vulnerable side of Tony without revisiting his tendency to overdo the drinking.

Then I went home and shaved and showered like I would have liked to have done before heading out, if I'd woken and figured out the day's plan earlier. Trimmed the goatee, as the point was exceeding a manageable length and tending to curl asymmetrically. Robert Downey Jr's facial hair style had nothing to do with it, really.

The gym was part of the plan since I woke up, but missing a shower before the movie meant I'd have to stop home to make myself gym-presentable regardless. Grabbed a can of pineapple juice to sip on my way there. I arrived ~2PM, probably earlier but I wasn't really paying attention to time. Being freshly showered, not empty but not full, energized with coffee and juice and the emotional rollercoaster of superhero stories, and fresher than 5PM, I had a very satisfactory run of 3.3mi solid at 5.7mph, a .45mi cooldown and final lap at 6.7mph for 4mi in just under 50 minutes.

It's endlessly frustrating that I haven't made the 30-minute 5K more of a stable standard. After this year's instance, I shifted focus to higher speeds, and then I got that nasty cold, and now higher speeds are no more sustainable, but I also lost my grip on endurance. Oh, and after that phenomenal 177# weigh-in, the scale at the gym insists on reading me at 184-185# and even the scale at the Publix over there tells me I'm 180-182. I haven't been stuffing myself with calories, so I guess I was at a dehydrated low and now I'm less dehydrated. Still haven't gotten back into a discipline of calorie-counting either though.