#running adventures

[baronessblixen]

I had a clear destination for my run today and it led me through the city. I mean I live in the city but you know... the *city*. It was like, I love this city, I hate this city, I love this city - you get it.

When I got where I wanted to go - after a few detours because if Berlin is one thing it's the capitol of construction works and road closures - I marveled at the fact that they closed down this huge ass road and me and some others were just running, walking, biking there.

Then! A woman came running toward me and I took my earphones out expecting she wanted to ask me something but she high-fived me and said "good job".

Kept going to look at - but not step foot on cause you can't yet - the huge piece of (artificial) grass they put up in front of the Brandenburger Tor for the Euro 2024 and I had another moment of "I love this place".

Didn't last long but that's how it is 😂

The picture isn't very good, but to give you an impression

[jenchwuq]

Also now that I’m done being starstruck, my own race went pretty well! To clarify just in case it wasn’t obvious, this was a huge race with multiple start waves so like. I was not on the course at the same time as Olympians lmao. Just got to be right there at the awards ceremony.

My marathon is next week so the timing wasn’t super convenient, but it’s a lottery entry so when I got in I was like, I have to do this! I basically ended up using this as my final pre-race long run and a dress rehearsal for marathon day. I got to practice my fueling and pacing strategies, and I’m feeling confident about both heading into race week. Also while this was not my fastest consecutive 10 miles, it was my fastest 10 mile chip time so. I don’t really know if it counts, but not bad for a race I wasn’t actively going all out for.

And this is SO petty, but I witnessed an instance of instant karma mid race where a guy threw his empty gel packet on the ground—and immediately dropped his phone 👀

And sorta unrelated, but being in DC made me miss Fallout 3, so I booted it up when I got home only to realize I was in the middle of Mothership Zeta 😑 I ended up finishing it, but I was so tired afterward I didn’t feel like playing anymore so. Not the post-apocalyptic DC experience I was hoping for. Especially since I annoyed my family all weekend by yelling ‘this was in fallout’ every time we passed a landmark. I can’t remember why I paused this playthrough in the first place, probably because the aliens were so annoying tbh. But I kinda wanna pick it up again, even though I’m still in the middle of Dragon Age. Idk, we’ll see I guess!

[antonomase]

Oh, the encounters you make when you go running at the beach on a 24th of December...

[gh-0-st-ly]

Round Valley Regional Preserve, Brentwood California.

[best-lovequotes]

Run like your phone is at 1%

[abbeydoesthings]

What’s on your running bucket list?

[bluedesignwall]

Little Grey Pony came over to the fence to take a closer look at the Towney chicks running by in the rain.