Somewhere in northern Oregon, on the second-to-last day of the roadtrip to Seattle, we stopped at a Burger King for dinner and discovered that Darth Vader was deflated (asleep?) on the job. However, all was not lost because Josh and I did win a free small order of french fries in Burger King's Star Wars scratch-off giveaway.
Today has been another absolutely beautiful day in Seattle, and another day that I spent indoors. I have a co-worker who's one of those people who gets to work before I do and leaves after I do (you know, the sort that generally makes you feel like a giant slacker), but he goes for a 30 minute run before lunch or plays basketball, then often goes out to lunch instead of slurping last night's leftovers at his desk, like the rest of us. Over the years, I've met a lot of people who do some sort of exercise on their lunch hour instead of doing it after work, and being one of those who does it after work, I'm not sure I'd want to make the switch. I'd have to bring extra clothes to work to run in, plus shower stuff and a towel, and then I'd have to sit around with wet hair for the rest of the afternoon. Plus, I really don't like being at work until after 6pm every day. However, when it's 2:30 in the afternoon and I've been staring at code continuously since 9am, a two-hour lunchtime break starts to look awfully nice.
Keeping on the topic of exercise though, I think I've rediscovered why I love to run. Running in Houston was, honestly, drudgery. It was always either too hot or too dark, there were no good running areas near my apartment (i.e. sidewalks), and I so often came home from work just wanting to crawl into bed instead of doing anything productive. Here though, the summer weather is perfect, there are tons of bike & running trails all over the city, tons of people out using them, and I'm not depressed all the time. Plus, I discovered Seattle Pacific University's track this afternoon while I was out running, and it doesn't look like the fence is too high to jump over, so maybe tomorrow I'll go back and pull out some hurdles. Man, I miss being part of organized sports.
Unfortunately though, I am horribly out of shape. Horrendously. So much that I'm afraid to go downtown on Tuesday nights to run with the Niketown running club because I might pass out halfway through the run. So... maybe in a few more Tuesdays, but definitely not tomorrow.
2 comments:
Cool, it looks like Vader is looming over the doorway to peer as people enter.
Yeah, running in Houston isn't as great as other places. In addition to the hot temperature with high humidity and hard-to-find places to run, you also have this horrendous air pollution which _has_ to be knocking a year off of your life for every ten miles you run in it.
I went running a few times in Seattle when I was visiting Jen, it was cool. Running through UW campus is very neat. It's only a couple of miles away from the gasworks if I remember correctly, running under the I-5 bridge, so if you start doing longer runs from your apartment that can be nice.
Loved your photo yesterday.
Nice weather? Nice running trails? *jealousy*
I think what finally made me "stick with" running was that I started while I was in lovely California. The weather was always great, and there were tons of places to run. I've managed to stick with it in Houston out of habit, but I agree, sometimes it feels like drudgery. I ran here in Charlotte yesterday and it is so much nicer to run outside of Houston.
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