So first time posting in a few days but finally with Christmas eve upon us I finally have some time.
It has been a busy few days since my last post.
Saturday was the first DFMC group run. It was out in Wellesley with 5 miles of the Boston marathon course from mile 15 through 20. It was a beautiful course but SUPER hilly. I can see how a marathon runner would get destroyed at this point in the course during the race. Even though the turnout for the run was about 90-100 runners, it was a lonely run for me finishing at least 10 minutes before anyone else who did the 10.5 miles on the course. It was great to have the volunteers out on the course and
see people on the way back. Jason from my usual run club, even saw me on the course and gave me a shout out, which gave me an extra boost. Met a bunch of cool people though and will continue going to the group runs even if it is a bit lonely.
The rest of the day was super busy with guests from out of town, work, and dinner with friends. Needless to say, I was toast after dinner and went to sleep pretty early.
Sunday wasn't much more relaxing with heading in to work at Dana-Farber, an elliptical workout since I took Friday off, grocery shopping, cooking dinner, laundry and house cleaning. Honestly though 1 week into training and so far so good. I am faster than I thought I would be at this point and I feel great even though I have upped my mileage per week significantly in the last while.
Monday was a regular work day except for realizing that I basically messed up a bunch of my work the past few weeks and had to junk everything, which means that I won't have that much to do over the holiday break since Harvard is closed over the break and will get to take a little bit of a rest. My run was pretty decent even though it was raining.
Tuesday was a quiet work day. I went out to Bedford with Dr. Kruse to see if my protein had actually crystallized and unfortunately it turned out to be salt - so back to the drawing board but I won't lose hope yet. The company in Bedford was pretty ridiculous not exactly representing themselves well. If they were trying to sell an instrument to us, they sure weren't trying hard.
Anyways - Tuesdays is always track and even though everyone told me they weren't coming to run club, I headed out to the McGrady track at Harvard even though it was raining pretty good.
I decided to run 6 x 800m all alone. 3.5 x 800m in, Dan showed up which was a pleasant surprise as I didn't have to run alone anymore. It also meant I had to restart the workout, which was tiring but pleasant to have the company. We pushed the last few pretty hard, and got to a sub 3 min 800m for the last one, slower than usual but great considering the super rainy and windy conditions.
Today was another off day for running with elliptical instead. Work was short as I was the only one there, since everyone else was off for the holidays. I left my ID at home which made it quite the hassle to get security to let me in but after 20 minutes of negotiation, they let me. It was a short day for me too and I headed home to hang out with my beautiful wife. We joined some friends and had some classic MSG filled Chinese food for dinner, a Jewish Christmas tradition. It was pretty decent by Boston standards, which admittedly are pretty low for Chinese food.
Well now you are caught up with my boring but busy life.
I haven't been doing anything fundraising wise, so I am going to need to pick that up big time in the new year. Any ideas for fundraising would be greatly appreciated!
Merry Christmas everyone!
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