manic monday

This morning in an email I joked that I'm a bangle, since was monday (admittedly, not especially manic) and i was wishing it was sunday, because, after all, that's my fun day.

Enough of that.

Anyhow, Sunday was a fun day. It rained and was generally ugly, so instead of cycling, i put on my running shoes and gathered up as much warm running clothing as I could. I went for what ended up being 10.4 miles.

At one point, as I was running up crystal springs, face first into near-freezing wind and rain, i realized: man, i enjoy running. in fact, i enjoyed the entire run, something i often do not do on this route.

as usual when i run about 10.5 miles, i figured that i was in the middle of a personal-record-breaking distance run, and that i'd surely run at least 13 miles, maybe even 15. i don't carry a gps or pedometer so i really don't know. i modified one of my known routes, adding extra distance to it, and figured i'd added at least 3 miles to a 10 mile run. whelp, i added .8 miles to a 9.5 mile run. go figure. it wasn't steeper, either, though i thought it had more hills. so it goes!

after a lot of lounging about, we headed on down for some fish waffles. the fish waffle batter was getting a bit old, so the fish wafflers wanted us to take some home. we had a near-empty water bottle, so we shook it out and got it filled up. this morning we made fish waffle batter pancakes -- in this case, it was gingerbread flavored. they burned a bit but were still quite tasty!

dinner was chimichurri marinated tri-tip. it was a huge blunder. i set the burner dials to what i thought was "medium"-ish. no, not what i'd used for "medium" in the past, but i figured it was cold out, so maybe some more heat would be nice. by the time i'd looked up the internal temperature of "medium rare" tri-tip and found my thermometer, the meat had passed well done. argh.

it was still quite edible with enough sauce.

also: i'm rockin my new shoes. today in a meeting, everyone looked under the table to get a gander. heh.