Intolerable Subway

OMG, the subway is just freakin’ intolerable today. Hot and crowded and deadly slow. The MTA must think there is no reason to air condition the cars since it’s now October. To top it off some bastard keeps getting their bag caught in the door, invoking endless announcements to please step away from the door. I am hoping to get home early enough to do my run, but as it stands now I am trapped in this hell for the foreseeable future.

Prospect Park will seem like the wide open plains if I ever make it there. Maybe once I do I can imagine myself running through the grassy fields. I probably better not as to not risk getting smashed by another cyclist while my thoughts are off wandering. I should have left work earlier, but no, I had to stay to make sure I got some things done. No good deed goes unpunished is what they say.

At least as of late I am able to amuse myself with some new music on my MP3 player. Well, not new music per se, but a different mix of some classic heavy metal and punk rock. Until this past weekend, my MP3 player was stuck playing the same playlist over and over – for about a year. I’ve really learned to hate some of my previously favorite songs.

10pm –

Not only did I get my run in this evening, but I had a great time of it. My legs are still a bit sore from the increased mileage, but they seem to be handling it well. The park was dark when I got there, the result of the increasingly shorter days. It made for a mostly peaceful night run, especially when I ran along the park’s transverses, which were completely deserted.

I ran a pace that felt natural, which in the end averaged out to a 7:57 M/M. A couple of times during the run another runner tried to keep pace with me right after I caught them. It was amusing and annoying at the same time. One guy kept pace so close to me on my side, it was like he wanted to hold hands while we ran.

When I returned home I was ravenously hungry. My wife served up the remainder of a chicken carcass that was languishing in my refrigerated. I ripped into it like Genghis Kahn. That and some pasta and veggies rounded out my post workout meal. I had a chocolate chip cookie for desert.

My daughter also wanted to accompany me on her bike for my run tonight, but unfortunately she had not yet completed her homework. She was very disappointed when I told her that she couldn’t go with me, since her homework was more important. Hopefully, her desire to go out with me when I run will inspire her to get it done earlier in the day. On the bright side of things it is very heartwarming to know she wants to go with me and is disappointed when she can’t.