So I'm watching this British comedy show Extras with the guys that created THe Office and it's chock full of great lingo like the phrase I used for the title of this essay. I spent a satisfying day out at some distant cousins house in the coutry watching a bit of the Bedlam game and tending to the various livestock and small children flocking about the place. Needless to say I am seriously thinking about purchasing a goat at this point. They really impress me with their surly, will eat anything attitude. The second realization that occurred to me while watching this show is now that I've almost become a professional house-sitter, maybe I should join the movie extra circuit to fill out my days a bit more. More realistically, one of my cousins who was in town is living in Livingston, Montana so naturally we chatted about the area and he was really supportive of the wanderlust notion to discover the place where we feel most compelled to settle. This guy really surprised me with his vision and it made an impression on me as a specific reiteration of my own goals. Most refreshing.
I hit the track this morning for some work. It was another nice morning but I can't imagine the humidity abating for long. Jordan and Meagan had matching workouts of 4-8-12-16-16-12-8-4 w/ 60 second rest. The paces prescribed were quick and I didn't run great but I tried to hang with Jordan on the middle reps. I should hopefully be able to substantially improve on my efforts this morning and maybe feel better doing it. I did something like a 200-500-1100-800-1600-1200-600-200, I wasn't happy with missing out on the first 1600 but I had to break for the restroom and I at least touched on some faster paces on the other reps. The recovery made it a pretty honest effort and I at least was able to sneak below 5:00 pace. My goal for the summer is breaking 15:00 so we'll see what happens. The picture above is my uncle's digital rendering of a wave complete with a frigate bird. I think he used only Adobe throughout the process.
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