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- run 10.49 km in 58:09
wack run. meant to do 12 km but lightning started while i was doing laps at the track and the wind was moving in the wrong direction, i.e. it started on the other side of my neighborhood and was moving quickly toward me. so i cut the track a few laps short and headed home, trying to stay under tree cover and zipping across open areas. by the time i got to the main street in my neighborhood, about 1-1.5 km from home, i could see the lightning making ground contact, no delay between strikes and thunder. a friend lives right around there so i ducked into her guard's booth. he tried to call her so i could go up and wait it out in her place but he didn't get through. so i waited with him until it seemed like the lightning had moved on a bit. nice dude. did the last km pretty quick.

- pull up myo-reps x 10+3+2
loooooool i am weak

- push up x 16
just to match reps

- hollow body hold x 20s
barely worth journaling

- stretch

gonna have a first-time champ, which is great. and at least michigan state, aka the most morally bankrupt D1 athletic program (which is really saying something), is out.

or lose out and give themselves a shot at zion.

- run 8.07 km in 41:31

- stretch

legs felt heavy, dead. picked up a bit once i got warm but that took half the run. ended up at 5:09 pace.

thanks fellas. belgium does sound great, and brussels in particular. everyone i've mentioned it to who's spent time there really likes it.

@acole: it'll probably be a master's in cultural anthropology and development studies at ku leuven. still waiting to hear back from that program, but because i got into the two-year social and cultural anthropology master's i imagine i'll get into the one-year program as well. hoping to hear later this week. depending on how much i get into the research, phd may follow. but let's see. phds are a long road and i'm already 32.

my gf is going to be doing something similar, but probably at universite libre de bruxelles or uc louvain, in french.

bizarre interpretation of interesting but ultimately not critical data. come on, man, the daily squats have led to big strength gains and you're two-hand tomahawking the ball. yes you need to improve your cardiovascular fitness but hitting 188 BPM during a near-max effort activity makes perfect sense! it's fine!

- run 10.93 km in 58:42
a buddy texted today to see if i wanted to run, ended up going with him and another friend. a bit quicker than i meant as a result, although still slower than "natural" pace so it's all good. kicked last 0.93km in 4:13 pace. really fun. it's nice to run with a partner or two. i like running with my gf but she is much slower than i am so it's a different kind of thing.

- stretch

rest tomorrow.