43.61? You ask. Yes, I had every intention of racing at the GBTC Cross Country Festival today. I am a massive nerd so to me a 5k is not 3.1 miles. A 5k is 3.1069 miles which rounds to 3.11 when I sum my weekly totals. Dose this matter? No, but it let me almost have a whole paragraph about running in a post which will otherwise be completely be unrelated to my blog's main topic.
Here's a bit of what I've been up to since I basically stopped running in June. (I call May the last month that I actually was a runner because it was my last 100+ mile month but at only 101 miles in May it might be better to say I haven't really been a runner since I fell apart on the hills in Newton in April).
I went to Portland, ME with Sarah and the Curriers. On the way we saw a truck with the most toilet paper I've ever seen in one place:
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| Someone knew that they were going to have a shitty weekend. |
Freddie knew that he wasn't supposed to be on the couch:
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| But he sits there anyway. |
And makes faces at you if you tell him to get off:
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| I don't know how to caption this one. |
Sarah and I went to Emily and Tom's wedding.
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| It was awesome. |
And drank out of the soda only trash can:
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| It was good soda. |
I got a lot of points at 2048:
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| Because when you flying as many hours as I am, why the hell not. |
Ran the JP Morgan 3.5 Mile race with the Axcelis team:
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| David approves of this photograph. |
I went to Portland, OR to present some research at the Ion Implant Technology conference:
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| I didn't run much but they had good beer. |
I came to Korea and got drunk at a Blues Brothers themed bar:
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| Yeah, I got nothing about this one. |
What do they like in Korea?
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| I don't actually know, but this picture would have you believe it's the pope and Krispy Kreme. |
Here it is zoomed in a bit more:
I drank rice liquor at the Korean Folk Village in Suwon:
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| Don't think Soju or Sake. This makgeolli stuff is ~8% ABV and rather thick. |
My next stop was a temple that looked like it could have been out of an Indiana Jones movie:
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| Okay, maybe a really calm Indiana Jones movie with absolutely no action. Which would have been better than what we got from their last try... |
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| And by a ton, I probably mean closer to 20 tons of them. |
Then I came home in time to go to Bar Harbor, ME with Sarah and the Holzgraf family!
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| Because even when I'm not running, I wear shirts that say that "Runners Run". Thanks Mike! |
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| This. |
Vacation was all too short though, I was right back on a flight to Korea:
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| Beautiful Dongtan. |
At least there is a park that I can run in once in a while:
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| It is one hell of a hill climb up steep trails to get to this spot. |
So that's been my summer. Not much running but a bunch of work and life. Maybe now I can log a few miles.
Can't forget to show off my dinner from the other night; it was probably the best beef sashimi I've had in my 13 weeks in Korea:
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| I was out with KR and SS: good process engineers and very good hosts! Thanks! |
I will be back in the states next weekend but probably won't post until the following week. Next Sunday is our second wedding anniversary so there shall be much celebrating!
Cheers!
