8Ks and Mondays

I decided I liked the tact of my "snow and shamrocks" title and repeated it again, only instead of alliteration I chose a limericky rhyme. Expect more of the same as time goes on, I just keep getting lamer. Anyway. Yesterday I started my training regimen for Shamrock Fest with Jamie, which will hopefully become a Monday-Wednesday-Saturday affair. The run was quite pleasant, albeit a little easy for my taste. Jamie's thankfully a lot more prepared than I am, and has already planned out the routes, starting at two miles and becoming increasingly more difficult as the race approaches. We'll actually be finishing training by running eight miles, which is a little over three miles longer than the actual race, but will be taken at a considerably easier pace.

Yesterday's run was just a two mile loop, going through downtown and ending back at her house on Lewis Street off of South Liberty, and was pretty flat. We passed some pretty gnarly hills that I'd biked up before, like one off East Grattan. I'm going to try to persuade her to run some fartlicks with me up them when it's warmer and we're a little stronger. I can't wait to see my calves this spring. Jamie cramped pretty badly near the start of the run but she persevered admirably until just the very end. Next time I'm not letting her stop, hahaha.

After the run I followed my typical ritual of following up something good for my body with something bad for my body. We met some of Jamie's friends over at Daves and enjoyed a few brewdogs and some pseudo-greek cuisine. I can only imagine how my body would perform if I actually ate and drank properly. Thank God one of my group leaders this summer is a nutritionist and will actually force me to eat right. Last but not least, the bike update.

I'd spoken to Brendan about getting my bike from Zanes and decided that I needed to head over to Shenandoah Bike Shop downtown to be sized for the Allez. I'm pretty sure that my lack of bicycle experience showed, because I managed to misinform the guy helping me no less than twice, and left the shop without getting sized. They told me I should ride the Ralleigh in and base my sizing on that, since I seem to be comfortable in that. I may just ask my roommate Chris to fit me if there are anymore issues.