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Quote from: LBSS on September 05, 2019, 04:46:30 pm

got visa, leaving for london in ~15 minutes. our expected place to stay tonight fell through and i can't reach my gf now to confirm booking an airbnb so might have to leave for the airport without knowing my actual destination tomorrow, lol. heeeere we go.

i missed this, you're moving to London? when did this happen - belgium was the plan last i read (or is london just en-route?)

i'll be down there quite a bit over the next few months as my gf is currently living there, lets park run!

happened over the summer, gf decided that she wasn't ready for grad school and that removed the main reason we'd do belgium: master's costs $2000 there rather than $25-30,000 here. (she's british but doesn't qualify for home tuition because she hasn't been living here in the past three years.) so i'm starting a master's at UCL in a couple weeks.

anyway, park run for sure. or chase the sun? i've done one of the latter, they have chip timing. now that i'm in a place where there are lots of races, i like the idea of doing what adarq doing a while back, running a bunch and using races mainly as a "hard" training day. maybe park runs to train and chase the sun runs to attempt PR, because they're expensive but chip timed and therefore more legit? will consider. lots up in the air at the moment, but i'm gonna start training again ASAP. it's so nice and cool here, can't wait to run.

want to do one next weekend? i'm out near leyton, so hackney marshes, walthamstow, and wansted flats all look pretty close. latter the most so.

Quote from: LBSS on September 05, 2019, 04:46:30 pm

got visa, leaving for london in ~15 minutes. our expected place to stay tonight fell through and i can't reach my gf now to confirm booking an airbnb so might have to leave for the airport without knowing my actual destination tomorrow, lol. heeeere we go.

oh shit! i hope that works out all right tonight! am afraid i'm not able to offer you a place to stay as i'm not in town tonight, but if you need a hand getting settled in the coming weeks hmu

thanks man. we found a great airbnb, thank god. gonna be here the next few weeks while we look for places to live. we'll probably end up in the east, mile end/bow or out here. where's your gf live?

yeah it was fun. hadn't done that in literally years.

- tennis w/ dad x 45 mins
we were both starting to get the groove back a bit, had some really strong rallies. dad put some good zip on a few forehands and also mishit a bunch; overall big improvement over the past few times we've played.

- mow lawn x 45 mins

- run 9.0 km in 46:49
capped it a little short today because of the struggles on saturday.

- stretch

oh shit! damn looked it up, seems he's out now? or out soon?

if there's one thing i learned from three years in pakistan, it's that everyone gets sick during hajj.

also i'm stuck in 'merica for another week because the UK government, in its wisdom, decided to make the visa application process a gigantic and unpredictable pain in the ass. in its defense, all countries do that. on the other hand, fuck borders.

that beach is beyond solid for me. it's got 30+ years of memories tied up in it. on friday morning we had a little ceremony to scatter some of my brother's ashes there. it was one of two places he requested that we do that, about a year before he actually died (the other being our parents' house).

back in maryland now.

- run 10.01 km in 53:01
first 4.5 km with gf, picked it up in the back half to get under 5:30 overall pace. she had the brilliant idea to drive down to the park nearby and then run along the creek, rather than just around the neighborhood. it's flat and so much less draining for her that she did an extra kilometer.

- stretch