I’m currently on Continental flight 9, waiting to leave Newark for a trip to Japan for 9 days. We’re still boarding. I’m not exactly looking forward to a 14-hour flight, but at least it’s nonstop.
This is only my second trip to Japan – my last trip was about 6 or 7 years ago for about two weeks. My few semesters of college-level Japanese are slowly coming back to me, but I’ve got my phrasebook just in case.
I’m going to try to keep this updated while I’m away depending on internet connections available. On my last trip to Japan I kept travel notes too, except those were scribbled down using my Handspring PDA (which was pretty cutting edge for its time!). It’s a lot faster to type out my travel notes using my iPhone’s keypad, though.
It’s probably time for me to end this post; we’re still boarding, but I have a feeling that we’re going to be leaving soon.
Not too much to report this week except for that new PR for the mile. Did a 12 mile long run today. Finding time this week to train is going to be difficult; the plan is to rest on Monday, but then I have two 6-mile runs and one 3-mile run to do on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. The only wrench in that plan is that Thursday evening I’m going to be driving up to Newark to head to Japan on Friday morning, so that won’t leave me for too much free time for running that day. Hopefully I’ll be able to figure something out.
We interrupt the weekly running updates for this special bulletin…
NEW PERSONAL RECORD FOR RUNNING 1 MILE!
I only did a 2 mile run today (per my training schedule), but I rocked (ha, I originally wrote “rocket”) it and ended up with a new personal record for the mile: 7 minutes 50 seconds! My previous record for the mile was 7 minutes 56 seconds, set back on October 14, 2009.
The funny thing is that I wasn’t even trying to beat my record, and I actually didn’t even feel that thrilled about my run; I felt ok, but it didn’t feel that fun to me today. I think that the reason I beat my record was because I started my run by listening to this song:
May 28, 2010 · No Comments