Cursed Realm of the Faceless Ghost

I went out for a quick out and back on the road today. It's sad that this constitutes a longish run for me these days. It's even sadder that we're only one day into the week and I've already run more than I did last week. Of course, I doubt I'll get to spend nearly as much time on the bike this week.

Really, this shouldn't even count. I was resigned to a goose egg today, but then I couldn't help going for a 2:00 run before going to bed. But once I headed out the door I didn't want to run anymore, so I cut my planned short run even shorter. Honestly, there's not much benefit to a 3:15 run. But whatever.

I have excuses. First, someone didn't pull a source for the law review article I was editing. Which means that to meet my deadline, I had to drive to Provo and look up a book just to confirm that one sentence was where the author said and said what the author said it did. There goes at least an hour. Second, when I was out studying, our refrigerator made a loud noise and then stopped making any noise. I was sure it had broken, and we have almost a month worth of milk for Elliott frozen in there. To avoid a tragic loss, I jumped in the car an drove to WalMart, where I bought a couple of coolers and a bunch of ice. Of course, when I got home the refrigerator was running like nothing had happened. There goes at least another hour.

And that's why I did a fake run today. And that's why there are 30 pounds of ice out melting on my doorstep as I type this. 

Just another quick three-mile run tonight. Six-times better than last night.

I had a call-back interview with a firm in Salt Lake today. The Samurai works there, so afterward I went for a short run with him and three other attorneys (including the boss)--strictly business, of course :) 

We ran a bit late, so it was a little stressful because I was supposed to pick Elliott up at her grandma's, but it was still a good run. From Mill Creek we ran up Big Water to Dog Lake, then over to Desolation Lake, then down Mill D to Big Cottonwood, where a car was waiting. Beautiful trails up there, and when was the last time I got to run 10 miles?

Quick evening run.

I was going to write and explain what led me to miss a a day, and on a weekend, no less. But it's been so long now that I don't feel like going into detail anymore. Let's just say that I woke up at 12:45 so I could drive to Vegas for a 9:00 job fair, and then I drove right back home. Then Catherine and I went to watch the BYU game at my sister's house (what an awful, awful game). By the time it was all done, I had been up for just shy of 24 hours straight. Understandably, I was too tired to run.