I took advantage of yesterday’s cooler temperatures and banged out an 11-mile run. I’m not running that many miles each week, but I feel okay about my base mileage. Half Marathon training starts tomorrow. Whee, sub-2!
Here are my splits from yesterday’s long run:
- 10:39
- 10:06
- 10:00
- 10:08
- 9:50
- 9:56
- 10:19 (Garmin didn’t auto-pause.)
- 9:40
- 9:50
- 9:49
- 9:47
I’ve learned that it takes me legs a few miles to get into the groove of things. Almost every run has negative splits. This means I don’t go out too fast, which is good. However, I want to use my natural “running strategy” to my advantage for the rare occasions that I decide to race. Obviously, slow warm-up doesn’t work from 5Ks.
In the afternoon, I attended the local Sweet Corn Festival (Don’t laugh!) with people from my new department. It is Midwestern “fun” in all its glory.
You can buy butter-drenched, mediocre sweet corn.
…Then you can made sad attempts to wipe the grease off of…everything.
If you’re not excited about it yet, there are scientologists, chomping at the bit to convert you:
In the evening, we attended a housewarming fête at Brian’s new house. As usual, there was a gregarious gauntlet of people standing around the kitchen:
I baked a peanut butter fudge cake (Recipe linked.) for the evening. It involved dense chocolate cake, covered in peanut butter and a layer of thick chocolate frosting.
It was intensely chocolate-y and rich, but I think we all felt a little sick after eating huge slices. (It didn’t help that we had all eaten Dan’s spinach dip and Sarah’s brownies beforehand.)
I’m not sure why Rick posed in this fashion, but I think it sums up the feeling of my distended, post-cake stomach.
The evening ended with Cooler Ranch Doritoes (EWWWW! I hate!) and a demonstration of fist-pumping by Sean, who recently returned from a semester in Paris.
This morning, after a cathartic run and strength workout, I made a very Korean lunch:
Bibim guksu (비빔국수) is a cold noodle dish with soba, spicy sauce (pepper paste, sweetener, sesame oil, rice wine vinegar, etc.), and a variety of toppings. Today, I used chopped lettuce, cucumber, carrot, and hard-boiled egg.
It was pretty delicious. I felt very Korean, enough so that I had to whip out a miniature flag.
Time to grade!
Do your weekends include a lot of eating? I’m really trying to work on not eating until I feel gross. It’s not a very pleasant feeling.
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What are weekends for if not eating?
On Friday I ate as much free food as was polite at the picnic thing, on Saturday after the corn thing my roommate and I split a big pizza, and today we ate potatoes and pork roast.
Also, this cake is delicious, but it’s making me seriously deplete my milk supply.
But everything you ate sounds so good!
I’m actually the opposite in that I find myself not eating enough on the weekends because my schedule usually gets all thrown off.
i have problems on the weekends too but i figure hey, we do these long runs so it’s chill. as long as I eat so much i’m gonna barf!
that pb cake sounds awesommmmmme btw.
I ate so much junk this weekend…uggghhhh. I’m eating fruit right now to make myself feel better. Even though i’m full.
I think that photo of you as a giant corn should be your new fbook pic.
I think 11 miles = awesome. You’re going to have a great half…I can feel it (and you haven’t even started training yet?!).
just on the weekends? I have a problem eating too much….pretty much all the time.
also working on that, as the pants are getting tight.
I also eat too much on weekends—I’m pretty good during the week and then all hell breaks loose Friday afternoon
I try not to stress about it too much, but I probably need to just be more balanced throughout. How can you, when things like that DELICIOUS-LOOKING cake are around?!?!
awww mid-western fun looks like fun! hehe
I do… I ate too much this past weekend. My tummy hurts today. DANG!
I eat too much period. Balh!!!!
Beautiful shot of the Bibim guksu, Mica (love these larger photos too!)–and I have to say I embrace all local food festival, no matter how mundane or mediocre the highlighted food!
How exciting about your 5k! You seem to be doing really well with your running. I haven’t gone in a while, because contrary to popular belief, it’s not quite fall yet, and still in the 90s here in CO.
I LOVE SWEET CORN FESTIVALS! Except, the one in Iowa was so annoying! Iowa corn=amazing, so naturally, they corn festival got their corn from WISCONSIN? WHAT? It sucked.
That party looooookkkkksss greeeeeaaaaatttt. Espec the brownies!
Oh, and I love eating lots on the weekend. The key to not eating so much is being broke! You can do it!
I love that you ran 11 miles BEFORE you are starting half training! It’s so different when you are training for time, rather than finishing, you know?
The fest and party look so fun! I eat more on the weekends too… but like it. Ha ha
I’m so sad I had to go to a wedding and miss the fête