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yeah man it has not been a fun ride. some accumulated grievances on her side that i thought we were working through okay but which have instead metastasized over the past few weeks.

- run 8.06 km in 42:17
unusually windy day, mostly a headwind on the way out and then swirling on the way back. felt a bit dead as well but not sure how much that was the wind and how much my lack of a single good night's sleep since gf came back from her trip last sunday. slow pace as a result, 5:14, and felt like a struggle to too great a degree.

- stretch

spent the last several hours writing a letter to my gf in response to one she wrote me a couple of days ago. i have never wanted a milkshake more in my life. but it's 3:45 AM, everything is closed, and i don't have any ice cream. damn it.

ice cream is good in such situations. get a shake soon.

and sucks man :/ hoping you're doing ok.

thanks guys. she'd spent a few nights staying a friend's place and we met up for breakfast this morning. it was a bit awkward at first but ultimately really good. wise of her to get away for a bit and give us both some space. hopefully this'll just be a painful bump that we look back on as a time when we learned something important about each other.

anyway.

- warm up x 3.2 km, 550m on/off x 3 [2:06,2:00,2:00], cool down x 550m

- stretch

total distance 6.53km, total time 32:35. did this on the road so the fast sets were slightly downhill and recovery slightly uphill. was sucking wind by the end of the last tempo lap. will add another lap the next time i do this workout. plan is for tempo runs to eventually reach 3000m worth of working sets.

- 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.

got into grad school today. not the program i'll likely end up in, but still, it feels good to get an acceptance letter. moving to belgium in the fall.

Congrats!!! Also, Belgium sounds great.

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.

got into grad school today. not the program i'll likely end up in, but still, it feels good to get an acceptance letter. moving to belgium in the fall.

daaaaaamn. congrats!

- 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