stuffing

yesterday morning one of the women on the my ultra running group mailing list was bored at work and started a thread asking people to share what they had stuffed in their sports bras during races. this may sound silly, but sports bra hold lots of things other than boobs during long runs (more on that in a minute).

meanwhile one of my housemates sent a bunch of us a link to a website of an artist who did drawings which reminded her of the work of one of our housemates. we were writing back and forth about what we thought about the artist's work. there was an article in the new york times magazine last sunday about a website that links up "sugar daddies" with "sugar babies." i won't comment on what i think about the website, but the article was fascinating. then someone responds to the thread with something completely unrelated to the topic at hand and says she's scared to go into the kitchen to cook dinner because another housemate of ours might be there.

so for the rest of the afternoon, the emails i received went from "people are slamming things in my face" and "pot makes people aggressive" to "this one time, i stuck beef jerky in my bra ..." and (once the guys got involved) "i once stuck a water bottle in my spandex as i was headed into an aid station and had all the volunteers laughing hysterically." it was a pretty enjoyable afternoon of email reading for sure.

last night i also got to talk to todd on the phone for the first time in a few months. todd is my counterpart from texas 4000. he led the sierra route last summer while i led the rockies route. he graduated in december and has been globetrotting ever since. we've kept up with each other pretty well via instant messenger but it was nice to actually get to talk for a little bit since he was back in dallas for 48 hours. i'm looking forward to seeing him in a couple months for the ATLAS ride and hopefully sooner for general shenanigans in austin!

i decided to move out of my co-op for a couple months this summer. some friends have a place in hyde park (north of campus) and need someone for only june and july. my house manager said it was cool with her as long as i promised to come back (to the co-op) in august. i don't know yet if the opportunity to stay for next school year will come up anyways, so i'll deal with that when the time comes. it will be weird to not be living with at least 20 other people. yep, that's right, i've been around 20 other people constantly for the last two years and it has been fabulous. with some of the recent stuff going on in my house, which doesn't involve me, but let's be honest, its now effecting everyone, i've been wondering if it is time to move out. i haven't come to any firm conclusions though because there are a lot of great things about my house that i think i'd miss if i moved, but you adapt. anyway, the friends who i'll be moving in with this summer actually also did texas 4000 last summer, but they were all on the sierra route.

i head to boston tomorrow morning. i'm super excited. i keep getting asked what my predicted time is and like always, i've said i want to just run sub-3:40 to qualify again for next year. but when i was talking to todd last night i realized, i've been training my rearend off the last few months. my taper has been going well and i weigh ~15 lbs less now than i did last year when i ran my pr for the boston course. so really, who knows what will happen. i'll go run my heart out like i always do and we'll see how the numbers work out.

and don't worry. i'll take pictures and boston so you'll have something to look at soon...