Happy Saturday!
This morning I woke up to my roommate’s alarm at 6:50. I’m
not sure why he set an alarm for that time, but it worked our pretty well to
wake up then. I ate a bowl of Cheerios, scarfed down a banana, and lathered a
piece of bread in peanut butter before consuming it. I then donned my running
gear and stuffed a small Ziploc bag with a few ounces of honey into my pocket.
Then it was off to the carriage roads for the long run of the week: 15 miles.
The first five miles felt pretty slow. Then I started to hurt a bit. Around
mile 8 I broke out the bag of honey. From mile 9 to 13 I felt great! My time
was just under 2 hours with about 1 ½ miles to go. I miscalculated my pace to
be sub-8:00 miles. I suddenly realized, however, that my math skills while
moving are lacking. I felt slightly deflated when I figured my pace to be
around 8:45/mile instead, but then I perked up when I remembered that I was
about to finish a significantly long run. And I did just that. Now I’m back on
my training schedule to complete a marathon before I leave in October.
I felt pretty tired at work today, obviously. Fortunately,
the crowds stayed away until about 1:30. I did my parking lot duty from about
1:30 to 3:30. Jami took the 11:30 to 1:30 shift, but spent most of her time
patching up three different injured hikers and bikers. Rough day on the trails
I guess.
Unlike yesterday, no “fights” broke out. Instead, I was in the
wrong place at the wrong time around 3:00. I left my usual post at the main
intersection in the parking lot to investigate why the cars were starting to
back up. I found the source to be a car waiting in the middle of the lane to
see if a minivan was leaving or not. Turns out the owners were just changing from
hiking to restaurant-eating shoes.
Almost immediately after traffic started flowing
beautifully, a car was leaving the parallel parking spots along the edge of the
parking lot. The lady in the car next in line to take the newly vacant spot
asked me to help her park there. To make the spots even more difficult to maneuver
into, the lot is curved one the edge. Imagine parallel parking on the side of a
street curving inward. One has to have the highest level of skills to park in
such a harsh environment. Unfortunately for the lady and me, she did not have
those skills. It only took us ten minutes and countless back and forth maneuvers,
but eventually we succeeded. Still, I
will continue to avoid what I affectionately call the “South Lot’s No-Man’s
Land” and stick to “Malfunction Junction” at the other end of the lot.
Luke, Ally, Sabrina and I headed down to Blackwoods
Campground to invite campers to come to our worship services tomorrow. Luke and
I handled the A Loop while the ladies took on the B Loop. Luke and I received
verbal RSVP’s from a family with a New York Jets tailgating pop-up tent in their
site and from a family with a Corgi/German shepherd doggie. 8:00 AM comes
awfully early when camping, though, so I bet we see them at the sunset service
on Cadillac instead.
Once darkness set in, we headed back toward the dorm. On the
way, we stopped by Seal Harbor Beach to throw rocks in the receding tide. We
figured out that skipping rocks by throwing them behind your legs while bent
over is hard. I wonder if a long-snapper would be good at that.
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