my mercury's in retrograde

- Almost 4 weeks ago now I decided I was going to be a runner again.  Since finishing up cross country my senior year of college I have had quite the love-hate relationship with running.  I'll go through a phase in which I'll train, run a race, do well, have fun, then half a week later decide I hate running and strictly cycle.  Then 3 months down the road I'll start running again, the annoying part of course being that I would have lost all the running fitness I built up.  This past running-hating time period was probably the longest I've had, despite the fact that I ran a 25k during that time period (though not on more than 20 miles a week).  But now I'm back running again, this week I'll probably do just 20-21 miles but I'm building up again and deciding between the Harrisburg Marathon (Nov. 9) and the Philadelphia Marathon (Nov. 23) with the goal of qualifying for the Boston Marathon, which will entail running sub-3:10, which is within reason if I train well.  I've been running in the high heat of the day down here (between 2 and 3pm when it's anywhere between 80 and 95ish), which is something I've never done but I'm enjoying.  But enough about that.

- I've been working on a bike I found next to a dumpster in our apartment complex and I've come to a stand still.  I cannot get the bottom bracket off (the part that helps the cranks and pedals to turn) which makes sense considering the bike is probably 15+ years old and a little rusty and no one, likely, has taken any of these parts off before.  But it's fun and it is good to learn on a bike that was free as opposed to one you paid for.

- We watched Smart People last night, very funny movie.

- The NBC announcers for the Olympics are, at times, completely terrible.  During the Men's 10k on the track the announcer continuously called Abdi Abdirahman "Abdi Abdirockman" and at one point called Jorge Torres, "George Torres" before correcting himself.  They love to put at least one person on the commenting team who has absolutely no idea what they are talking about on every sport, makes sense...not.  Michael Phelps is an animal, though I think it is high time for them to quit constantly talking about him, let's hear about some others feats.  Track cycling was fun to watch, Chris Hoy, who won 3 golds for Great Britain is a beast.  I'm sad the Olympics end on Sunday but I suppose it is good that they don't go forever, keeps them exciting.  

- This post was entirely too long and did not real say much of anything.