Although I've been running on my own recently, I only have a vague idea of how far I've been going. My method of measuring distance was to run a route, then drive my car approximately the same route, and watch the odometer. Since this probably isn't the most accurate method, I decided to go this morning to the track on the Stanford campus and run 3 miles. Our first training run is 3 miles, and will determine which pace group we get put in, so I wanted some idea of which group I might be in. Fast forward 12 very boring laps around the track, and it turns out that it takes me 35 minutes, 20 seconds to run 3 miles. Pretty slow. Assuming I get put in the 13 minute/mile pace group (they slow you down by a minute or so,) this means that it should take me about 5 hours and 40 minutes to run a marathon. Holy poo. That's a lot of running.

Running + Playing soccer + eating only crackers = Tired Sha Sha

Some of you may know that once a week I meet with some friends to play soccer on the Stanford campus. My attendence is...less than regular, but I made sure to come today because it was the last day I'll be able to play for almost 6 months, since marathon training starts next week. I scored 7 goals! Woo! If we were actually good, and if all the goals were intentional, this feat would be that much more impressive. Just call me Sha Sha Beckham.