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buying a house in south florida just seems like a crazy long-term investment to me. storms are gonna get worse (or bad storms more frequent; tomayto tomahto), sea level's going up. same goes for anywhere along the water on the east coast, especially in the southeast but even in places like the jersey shore. like, are flood and hurricane insurance even available anymore? if so, don't they cost an absolute mint?

what are people saying about it down there? the climate crisis and its impact on the area, i mean. really curious actually.

total annihilation 

- run 10.06 km in 47:45
another 10k "PR", 47:30. kicked a bit in the last 500-600m or so, pace was down around 4:15 for that stretch. nice run.

- stretch

signed up -- and actually made sure it went through this time -- for a race in victoria park on 15 december. joe/gukl, y'all gonna be around/interested? VP isn't as flat as battersea but i know it super well by now so that will hopefully help. 1.5 laps of the upper portion, no street crossing.

thanks vag and joe. unfortunately i've had a headache for the last four days. it's faded at times and never quite reached migraine strength, but it gets pretty bad. i had to lie down and take a nap on thursday evening, which is very unusual for me. also, it's moved around (right temple for the first three days, then left temple last night and this morning when i woke up, and now both temples). woke up this morning with it switched very on. standing up and walking around is a slow process, no question of being able to run. so no race.



gf convinced me to go to the A&E/ER about it, so i'll head up there in a bit. i've been headache-prone my whole life, i'm used to getting them, but this is weird.

- run 8.36 km in 40:58
new set pace seems to be in the 4:54 range. not gaining any fitness now, this was just to stay loose.

- stretch

started to get nervous/excited for the race on saturday.

- run 10 km in 49:30

- stretch

- extensive tempo/pace practice: run x 2 km; 1 km in [4:00, 3:57, 3:59] w/3:00 light jog rest; run x 1.9 km
didn't feel too great going in but this was okay.

taper is going to happen a bit by accident, which is fine. will run tomorrow and thursday and then going to the netherlands for the weekend. may run may not, it's for gf's mom's bday so she's driving and not sure how much flexibility we'll have. back next week and will run a couple of days but very light with maybe a few short race pace intervals thrown in for practice, then 2+ days full rest.