Lunch time to early PM: Skied at Snowbird. Had a rather bad crash in the double black chutes in Silver Fox that tweaked a muscle on the outside of my calf in my left leg (probably the Soleus?) Fortunately, while it was noticeable while running, it didn't affect my ability to run.
Later PM: Went out for a run with Holly. A mile in, the salt in the roads must have been bugging her paws, as she suddenly refused continued running. It took a little while to get her back home, as she would stop every 30 seconds or so. Poor girl. :( Anyway, I dropped her off at home and went back out for a few laps of Liberty. In the process, I nearly got run over by a cop in an intersection in which I had the right of way (he gunned it after making eye contact with me, while I was already in the intersection, despite him having a stop sign and me not having one). A little later, I got to witness another cop further polluting this ridiculously terrible air during two of my laps. He was just sitting there apparently texting or playing a cell phone game, idling away and dumping more garbage into the air. I was going slowly, so he was idling there for at least 12 minutes, despite the law prohibiting idling for more than 2. Great work, guys. Way to set the bar high. Fortunately, I reported both officers. Unfortunately, absolutely nothing will be done.
In case you can't tell, I was pretty annoyed for the entire 2nd portion of the run after nearly getting run over.
Obviously, this week sucked, but I had incredibly important things going on in the lab, so I'm OK with that. I'll pick it back up this week, but given how much I'm planning on skiing this week, I doubt it'll be all that monstrous.
Oh, and congrats to Zach Bitter for running 100 miles in 11:47 today. 7:04/mile for 100 miles is really freaking impressive.
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