Many things:

1. There are immense, stupid lines for the portapotties. DO NOT wait in line for these. Go pee on a tree. Listening to the National Anthem and then the countdown for the race while looking at 20 people in front of you getting ready to pee sucks.

2. Practice drinking while running. I had never done it before. It’s much harder than it looks.

3. Don’t get sick the Friday before a race. Don’t pull a groin the Thursday before a race. Be annoyed that you have legitimate excuses for a cruddy time but that you still have a CRUDDY TIME.

4. Everyone has lots of advice. Listen to your own body. For example, I had gotten accustomed to running every other day and I took a week off before the race. My body felt out of practice. Also, my stretching routine (ha!) occurs after I run, so when I didn’t run, I didn’t stretch. I think I would have been better served running my normal schedule this week.

5. I didn’t lie about my time to get into the second corral. I honestly thought I could run a faster time. That being said, I will always overestimate now because the crowd thing was tough to take.

I don’t know exactly why my last 5k sucked. I couldn’t run any faster and I couldn’t accelerate (I tried once and felt the cramps waiting for me). Did I need to get some calories into me? Did I overexert myself in the early part of the race? Had I not trained enough? Was it simply too humid for long runs? I want to do another one to figure this out.

5k: 24:09
10k: 48:37
10 mile: 1:19
Total time: 1:46:37
Pace: 8:07

We worked yesterday on our goals for the year. My two goals (as a teacher) for the year:

1. Carefully and closely documenting the work with students in ways that will allow others to use and draw upon it and allow me to improve my practice.

3. Publicly finishing projects together. I want to make sure that each of the projects has as an authentic conclusion with as large an impact as possible.

Faked my way through the door; could have used a jig or corner clamps but didn’t. Dug through the trash doors to find mismatched brass hinges. Found a knob that we mistakenly bought for kitchen cabinets long ago.

We’re going to do this with the sophomores. I went into the basement, found an old plant stand of my father’s, pulled whatever scrap wood I could find, and knocked together this prototype.

Punchlist:
1. Need to caulk all the way around.
2. Need to do something clever with the roof part.
(both of these have to do with waterproofing, which will be a huge design challenge. Flat roof? Not so smart…)
3. Need to stain the same color as the plant stand.
4. Need to figure out second floor and signage. Either a simple A-Frame roof or some funky triangle.
5. Need to figure out what to do about the door.