After a night of Chinese food and watching the first episode of House of Saddam on amazon instant video, I was definitely ready to relax as much as possible all day. All I had to do was spin down some bacterial cultures at work and do a 6-7 mile run. Easy, right?
After finally managing to sleep past 7:30am for once, we woke up to a facetime call from my sister to see my nephew! He is growing so fast and I am looking forward to seeing him this weekend!
Pretty much loafed around for a few hours and then headed to lab to spin down the bacteria. Managed to dump some $ on clothes from Banana Republic while waiting for the centrifuge to finish and then headed to pick up movie tickets for the wife!
When I got home, the movie Serendipity was starting and I am a total sap and love it (and pretty much all chick flicks). Luckily after 50 minutes of watching it, I pulled myself off my ass to get out to run before the sun went down. Little did I realize despite my mom's warning, it was seriously windy in Boston. Like crazy windy.....
Anyways, managed to stay on track with the advanced training program from DFMC and completed the run, just a bit slower than my usual runs.
I did manage to run into Marius, Jess' father, on my run. Pretty random and coincidental since Jess' mom's passing from ovarian cancer this past year is one of the major reasons for me deciding to run with Dana-Farber this year. It was nice to see him. Even though I personally haven't been struck by cancer in my family, it was hard to see my friend go through the pain of this horrible illness. Hopefully through my research at Dana-Farber and the money I raise towards the Barr fund, we can get a bit closer to developing treatments and/or cures for many of the different cancers we face today.
A bit of a somber post for Christmas but serendipity got in the way. ;-)
Merry Christmas everyone!
Almost finished week 2 of training!!!!
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