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1:48:39 (56:34/52:05). Took it pretty slow at the start, but couldn't help but speed up a little at the end, I was barely sweating! Wonderful morning ... great weather, nice to be out. Came home and took a little break from work to watch the Pre Classic. WOW. Some great runs today, my favorite highlights: Jenny Barringer's gutsy 1500, Bernard's awesome 3K win and 14 guys all running under 4 mins for the mile (Kiproch runs a 3:48 for the win)!!

Happy weekend bloggers

AM: (9 miles, 1:20:16) (40:49/39:26).

not much time to write ... have to go finish my grant.

PM: (4 miles, 35:38). 

Hopefully, if I can get everything uploaded to the NIH form before it is too late. I have to take over 40 page of grant and break it down into 14 different sections, make pdf of each section and upload them one-at-a-time. Then it gets sent over to the grants office on main campus and hopefully, they submit it before the Friday midnight deadline.

Then I sleep for 12-14 hours.

Have a good day bloggers.

1:20:20 (31:33/30:46). My body is rebelling today. I am just so mentally (and physically) tired.

The grant did not get submitted yesterday - I finished my part but I really can't even adequately vent about the problems that were encountered by the administrative staff at the college level (we haven't even gotten to the university level stuff yet). It is very frustrating not to have people to do this who know what they are doing ... I am sure it is even more frustrating to them. I guess I just got spoiled from all the years at Vanderbilt - where they had the resources to hire people who where trained to do this type of thing. vent vent vent.

Anyway, I left the office at about 7:15 so I ended up running in the dark around campus last night. I got home about 8:30, which is the earliest I have been home in the past 3 weeks straight -- but still not what I had been hoping for ... it looks like rest will be postponed until the weekend, where I am going to attempt not to work even for a couple hours.

I am debating about whether or not to ride my bike into work this morning .... ok, now I seem to be rambling on the blog, I have to go ;-).

Have a good day bloggers.

1:09:26 ... probably a little longer than 8 miles, but not by much.

20 x :30 w/1` recovery.  Very invigorating!  It is starting to get more "normally" warm here ... but it is great for faster stuff, I can see why it can't be too hot for sprinters!

Tonight we are taking the very brave and fun Montelepsy to dinner!

happy Thursday one and all! 

1:02:58 (31:43/31:15).  Wonderful morning for a run.  Stunningly beautiful day.  Saw two roadrunners!  They are so awesome.

So, I am the luckiest blogger in the whole world.  Twice in the same number of months I have met the most wonderful people from fastrunningblog.  First was the most incredible Snoqualmie ... and last night I met Montelpsy (a nice, handsome, smart and yet tough manly man).  I was so lucky to be part of the :

MONTELPSY American Tour 2009

Washington, D.C.

Tuscon, Arizona

 Where will he end up next????

I had a very nice time (and broke his camera, so there will be no evidence).  AND -- I also was able to talk to the beautiful and talented Kungfublond as well.  SIGH, it was a truly a wonderful night!!

UPDATE:

My grant has been successfully submitted -- all told the "science-part" has taken 6 months (well 2 years from conception -- but 6 months of writing and organizing, 1 month pretty much full-time) and the "submission-part" took almost 4 days.  I kid-you-not 4 days just to get it submitted, amazing.  Anyway, now we wait until October/November.  Just so you all know, grants hardly ever (read never) get funded the first time, so it is likely I will be resubmitting this (with updates based on the reviews) in February.  The main thing this round is to get scored, so that is what I am hoping for (that would mean the reviewers think it is worth funding next time).  The resubmission is generally a little easier than the first round.

UPDATE2:

I rode my bike into work today (11 miles).  I had to go pick it up from the bikeshop.  The guy who fixed it called me yesterday to tell me it was ready and I asked him, "how can we make sure this doesn't happen again".  His response was classic -- "This was one of the freakiest things I have ever seen, honestly, I don't think you could do this again no matter how hard you tried".   -- Sounds like a challenge to me.  I don't know, if there is something incredibly stupid that one could do many times ... I could do it ;-).  Though I still am sticking to my story that it was not my fault.

Happy day bloggers.

AM: (8 miles, 1:11:49). I got a late start today, I was just too tired to get up early, even though I still woke up when the sun came up (about 4:15). I did not want to look up the temperature because I knew it was hot. I told Dean before I left that it was really hot, and he said, "luckily you are tough" - ha. Anyway, I adjusted my pace (ran about 10-15 sec/mile slower) and it wasn't too bad, I did have to get water about 50 mins into the run. I got home, looked up the weather, and it was hotter than I thought it was, I thought the temp would be low and it was just the intensity of the sun that made it feel hot, but no ... the two weather spots nearest my house measure between 89-92F (at 9AM!). Now, I have to hydrate well because it will be even warmer this afternoon when I run. I am pre-blogging 4.5 miles (because I am going to my favorite spot to run tonight -- the first time since the marathon!), but I might back off the mileage if I don't feel right. I have to decide between running earlier in the evening (when it will be hotter) and getting more recovery time before tomorrow morning or run when it is a little cooler, but not get as much rest between today and tomorrow.

One thing is for sure, I have to get up early tomorrow it would be tough to do a long run in this heat.

PM: (4.5 miles, very easy).

GOOD LUCK UVM RUNNERS!!

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