You only have to speed up 20%. I think the real trick is to know how much faster that is, and set a base pace that you can maintain for 30/60 min and also increase by 20%.

I waited for a big sale, but I'm a poor grad student. I think the two of them would be totally worth ten bucks.

Tonight was the very last pub quiz at Last Exit Bar. My team—Hubert Selby Jr Is Dead—won first place!

Congrats!

Congrats Tom on the win, and sorry about the loss of your favorite bar.

Hurray, Tom!

Oof, Sara, I’m so, so sorry. Stomach bugs are the worst.

So I am apparently a crazy person, because for my second half marathon, I’ve decided to do San Francisco (the first half of the course) this summer: [link]

I am in denial about the elevation map.

Congrats Tom on the win, and sorry about the loss of your favorite bar.

That^^. Also sara, sorry you're barfy. I had food poisoning a few weeks ago and one of my friends dropped off ginger ale and crackers and Pedialyte (making me feel loved, aww), and I found I prefer red Gatorade to Pedialyte, but other Gatorades are gross.

Kate Middleton's red jacket with the double line of shiny buttons and padded shoulders, that looks like she is physically prevented from slumping by a ramrod sewn into the very lining? That is the most British piece of women's wear ever constructed.

I inadvertently, in passing, in conversation, promised to run the local marathon next year. Considering I can barely do a mile in half an hour right now, and considering I'm lazy as shit, this may be overly optimistic.

Oh, man, flatness is an important component of my deciding where I'm gonna run. More power to you, Pix.

And you, Zen. Do you really feel committed to doing it?

Janelle Monae is just delightful, isn't she?

And you, Zen. Do you really feel committed to doing it?

I'm intrigued by the possibility. Like, I've never been athletic, even when I was young and thin. The idea that maybe I could try to do something like that feels daring and scary. I don't know.

Sara, I recommend Vitamin Water. Not as many electrolytes, but still good and WAY less sweet, which for me is key when I'm nauseated. Wish I still lived near(ish), I would have come up.

Ugh. Problem with nice weather--open my windows and voila, LOUD ASS NEIGHBOR CONSTANTLY. I don't know what it is but his voice is SO LOUD. Hell be talking to someone else in his apartment and all I hear is him and a faint mumble mumble from the other person. It bugs the crap out of me until I want to scream "OH MY GOD SHUT UP WHY ARE YOU SO LOUD?!?"

I doubt that would be a good plan though.