Made it back to the states late Tuesday night, crashed at my folks place, and then made my way back to Madison in time to work on Wednesday afternoon. My interview went well, and it looks like things are going to work out with lifeguarding for the city after all this summer. Also found out yesterday morning that funding came through for the ( Read more... )

Alright then. Here's the update on the trip so far. After the first day in Dublin and night at Avalon House, we toured the Guinness factory in the morning, with great views of the city from the Gravity Bar. After that it was Powerscourt gardens and waterfall in the rain at Enniskerry?, and stayed the night in Glendalough. The hostel there was ( Read more... )

Eventually found my contact here... we made it to Dublin, checked out the National Botanical Gardens, got some dinner, and walked in St. Stephen's Green... all in all a good day of recovering from my jet lag. Guinness Tour tomorrow morning! I'll keep updating as I go, Glendalough tomorrow and on toward Kerry and Galway from there.

Well, I guess I'm kinda stuck alone for a week. This was not planned. I'm going to get a guidebook, head for a hostel that I stayed at in Dublin last time, and do my own thing. I'm quite tempted to get on a plane and go back home, but I don't think I'm going to do that, at least not without sleeping on it for a night first. I still want to tour ( Read more... )

IT made me cry, made me swear in frustration, made me drink heavily at times, made me bleed and sweat, made me lose sleep, made me angry and proud at the same time, made me scream, made me want to give up ( Read more... )

It seems that life imitates art, lately. or in my case running. I have been doing too much studying, too much drinking, too much sleeping in the past month to make running this marathon on Sunday anything but at best an ill-advised idea. At worst, it's stupid, but I'm comforted by the fact that I have seven hours to do it, and could practically ( Read more... )

Its so pretty in the morning.  I'm really just doing easy short runs this week and next.  Maybe that's a bad idea, but whatever.  At this point, that feels just about right... maybe I'll do some sprint training and such after the race ( Read more... )

I realize i haven't posted for a while.   Oddly enough, that's because I haven't been running... but, I did finish my papers and celebrated the finishment of said papers.  Run this morning was good, probably started out a bit too fast, just did the yahara loop with the  new running buddy; seemed to work pretty well together.  The marathon is in ( Read more... )

Yeah, all day.  Like, till almost 4 pm all day.  Partial hangover, partial exhaustion, partial not willing to get out of my cozy sleeping bag on the porch or off of my comfy couch and get up and work.  I'm in the department now, having biked here (get a little exercise, right) and sat down absolutely determined to finish this paper tonight ( Read more... )

I'd been waiting until i felt up to running six miles, which i managed to get through this morning. Slow, but i got through them. So, this is the first pair of shoes I've owned (well, other than my old cc shoes, which have about a thousand miles on them but I still wear em to bum around when I'm in milwaukee) that I'm retiring because of mileage ( Read more... )