Long Day

As of right now I'm in the middle of a very long day. I got up at 7:30 this morning to run with Richard. It was a bit chilly still as the sun slowly rose and I wore all my winter training gear for the first time. Under Armour, gloves, hat...they kept me warm enough. The reason I had to get up early is that I'm working at a grad student info session from 4 until 8 PM. After that I'll probably stick around the library for another hour or two to get some schoolwork done. It seems like the work never ends, but that's life I guess. You spend the first chunk of it in school preparing yourself to work the rest of it, and if you finally manage to retire some day you're too old to do half the things you used to enjoy.

Over the past 24 hours something inside of me has decided to run the steeplechase in track this year. I've started doing hurdler stretches again in the hopes of gaining some flexibility. I figure that since so few people run that event I'll stand a good chance of scoring points at the conference meet. Plus it's just a ridiculous race. Made for monsters.