session 93: 4.4mi / ~60m. Half-lap warm-up, 2mi / 6.1mph, another lap (or two?) at 5.7, long cooldown which put me at 41m and seconds at 3.3mi, another stretch at speed, cooldown and finished with 2.5 laps at 6.5mph. Dinner: reprising the Subway $5 footlong of the month, tuna jalapeno (sans jalapeno... my sandwich artist claims people are "raving" about it, but it's very rare that I see anyone order jalapenos when I'm there, so I think they're just farting rainbows to revitalize a stagnant jalapeno mark... (...more)

Woke ~7:30. Culled a heap of old bills and statements that had long passed the statute of limitations during the week, and that went out with the trash this morning. 2 laundry loads of whites and lights, turkey-bacon-cheese lean pockets for breakfast ~9:45, CA guild battle and racked up some duels toward the 5000 duels achievement, rent paid ~10:30AM. While the third load of laundry was in the dryer, I washed up to hit the gym. As I was coming out to get my dry darks, some young hood rat passing by aske... (...more)

session 92: 3.3mi / 39m20s. half-lap warm-up, 1.5mi at 6.3mph, long cooldown, finished with a mile at mixed speeds between 5.9 and 6.3.

I don't remember when [grundoon] started circulating on E2 and in #everything. Hey, it was a decade ago. There was a hint of a possibility of romance by the time cz's 2002 nodermeet rolled around. She brought her imp/buddha/daughter - 3, 4 years old at the time? Turned out we didn't particularly click "that way" face-to-face. Then we were both in attendance later that year at the Portland nodermeet. I gave a dramatic reading of impressions from my first visit to a strip club ("[On Losing My Strip-Club Cher... (...more)

Ordering pizza being a prohibitively annoying rigamarole at Waterways was something of a blessing. breakfast: a powersaucebar and some smilk. Got out and about in time to get 3 sets in on the Cybex circuit. I've given up on the overhead press in favor of the rear-delt function of the row station. Perhaps if I didn't habitually sleep on my side, impinging my shoulders, I could do the overhead press without always feeling like I'm in danger of a serious rotator cuff injury, but I do, and I do, so here we ... (...more)