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Bla and not Bla

December 4, 2019 (Night)

Exercise Type: Run

Weather: Coldrainydark

Comments:
I felt bad again. I should probably take tomorrow off: but if I'm not running or showering after a run, that means I have to be working on my applications. Bla. I ran with a friendly stranger named John who ran the Chicago marathon this year, and used to run for TCNJ. It was nice because he actually initiated the interaction. Not bla! I've struck up a few conversations this fall with runners of similar speeds, but it's always weird for so many reasons: like you're running parallel to someone you don't know, so you can't really engage with them the way you would with new people in other situations, and it's dark and rainy, so you can't even see their face, and people are all status-oriented about their running achievements, so half the conversation is just posturing, UGH. I've also done my fair share of speeding up to avoid those situations. Maybe the real reason I'm in decent shape right now is fleeing social interactions because I don't have the luxury of running with the likes of Jake and Zeke every day. Anyway, running-log kiddos, for better or for worse, "out there" is not quite like running at GDS or Williams. But I digress.