The world's oldest college student is on spring break so you know what that means!!!!!! I got to go to Tuesday night running group!!!!! I've sooooooo missed Tuesday night running group this semester. I had to give it up due to my afternoon shift clinicals on Tuesdays.
We meet up at the very cool local running store for an informal run. It was really fun because one of the running store employees who qualified for and ran the Olympic marathon trial last month ran with us!
We ran 4.1 miles. When I got home and uploaded my run on Garmin.com I see that I ran a 9:48 pace! Sadly, that's fast for me these days. It was a great evening for a run in February in southeast Michigan, 38 degrees! It was fun to run with the old gang again and I can't wait until I am a regular groupie again!! I will be back on April 24th!!
Runner Nerd
happy to run with friends
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Sunday, February 26, 2012
High Mileage Week
I ran the highest mileage this week since - I don't know when! I ran a grand total of 16 miles!! Yep, SIXTEEN!!! Hard to believe that I used to run 25-30 miles per week. Yesterday was my long run - 6 miles! I haven't run 6 miles at one time since the 10K on Thanksgiving.
I am running a 10K on May 12 and I hope to have a decent time. It took me 1 hour and 3 minutes to run 6 miles yesterday so right now I'm thinking my goal is going to have to be anything under 1 hour. Maybe I could go for 55 minutes but I have a long way to go for that.
I guess that's what I have to give up to be the world's oldest college student!! Actually, it's keeping up a 4.0 GPA that nessecitates giving up weekly mileage. Just over 9 months to go!! It won't come soon enough.
This week is spring break. I want to know when I'm going to get a break. I have so much work to do. I have a test on the first day back next week. I have a research project for one of my classes. I have a presentation for clinical to work on. I have a case study to finish. I will get to go to Tuesday night running group this week!!! I'm sooooo excited! I miss Tuesday night running group more than anything. I miss my friends! This is the first time since going back to school that it has interefered with running group.
Well, I'm heading to bed and am going to read a "real" book (not textbook) before going to sleep!!! I can do that because I don't have to get up and go to school and take any exams tomorrow!
Runner Nerd
on no break spring break
I am running a 10K on May 12 and I hope to have a decent time. It took me 1 hour and 3 minutes to run 6 miles yesterday so right now I'm thinking my goal is going to have to be anything under 1 hour. Maybe I could go for 55 minutes but I have a long way to go for that.
I guess that's what I have to give up to be the world's oldest college student!! Actually, it's keeping up a 4.0 GPA that nessecitates giving up weekly mileage. Just over 9 months to go!! It won't come soon enough.
This week is spring break. I want to know when I'm going to get a break. I have so much work to do. I have a test on the first day back next week. I have a research project for one of my classes. I have a presentation for clinical to work on. I have a case study to finish. I will get to go to Tuesday night running group this week!!! I'm sooooo excited! I miss Tuesday night running group more than anything. I miss my friends! This is the first time since going back to school that it has interefered with running group.
Well, I'm heading to bed and am going to read a "real" book (not textbook) before going to sleep!!! I can do that because I don't have to get up and go to school and take any exams tomorrow!
Runner Nerd
on no break spring break
Friday, February 10, 2012
My Life at the Moment
My Place in this World by Michael W Smith
I hadn't heard this song in a long time. Today a friend posted or shared, or whatever it's called, a link to a Michael W Smith song on Facebook and I saw this on the side of the page where it shows songs by the same artist. This is my life at the moment; I am "roaming through the night searching for my place in this world". I feel like "the wind is moving but I am standing still". I am a "life of pages waiting to be filled".
I hope that I am well on my way to finding my place in this world. I am still 10 months away from graduating and it won't come soon enough. Then, I hope to find my place in this world again.
Runner Nerd
world's oldest college student
I hadn't heard this song in a long time. Today a friend posted or shared, or whatever it's called, a link to a Michael W Smith song on Facebook and I saw this on the side of the page where it shows songs by the same artist. This is my life at the moment; I am "roaming through the night searching for my place in this world". I feel like "the wind is moving but I am standing still". I am a "life of pages waiting to be filled".
I hope that I am well on my way to finding my place in this world. I am still 10 months away from graduating and it won't come soon enough. Then, I hope to find my place in this world again.
My Place in This World
(Michael W. Smith)
The wind is moving but I am standing still
A life of pages waiting to be filled
A heart that 's hopeful, a head that's full of dreams
But this becoming is harder than it seems
Feels like I'm looking for a reason
roaming through the night to find my place in this world
my place in this world, not a lot to lean on
I need your light to help me find my place in this world
My place in this world
If there are millions down on their knees
Among the many can you still hear me?
Hear me asking, where do I belong?
Is there a vision that I can call my own
Show me, I'm looking for a reason
Roaming through the night to find my place in this world
my place in this world, not a lot to lean on
I need your light to help me find my place in this world
My place in this world
Runner Nerd
world's oldest college student
Sunday, February 5, 2012
Look! A cow running past the house!
I was in my usual spot in the public Library with my textbooks all afternoon living the nerd part of my life. When the library closed at 5, I set out to live the runner part of my life for a short time. I was fully looking forward to this since it is now completely light out at 5 pm. It was a really nice sunny day today and the temp at 5 was in the 30s - unseasonably "warm" for February in southeast Michigan. I changed my clothes in my car, thanks to the miracle of tinted windows, fired up Garmy, and was off on my mini-adventure! My route took me through the cemetary, where I said hi to my ancestors as I ran past their graves! (yes, I really do say, "Hi great great Uncle Adam and Aunt Mary" as I run past; that's normal, isn't it?) I continued on through some neighborhood streets toward a trail that takes me through the woods and through the campus of the hospital. As I was running past a house just before the entrance to the trail I heard, "MOOOOOOOOOOOO"! OMG, somebody was mooing at me - as in calling me a cow!!!! They did it 3 times, I think. I could not see the person, they were either in the garage or around the corner of the house. I did see people as I was running toward the house so they must have hid when they decided to moo!! I admit that I have gained some pounds since I've become a full time college student and my mileage has dropped from 25-30 miles to 10-12 miles per week but I sure didn't think I was in the cow category yet!! I wasn't wearing black and white; I was wearing pink! I thought the rest of the world was watching the Super Bowl this afternoon! The rest of my run was uneventful. I ran 5 miles which is about as far as I can run these days. It was a really great run in the sunshine. I am still waiting for weather suitable for the miracle shirt but I'm not complaining!
A beautiful day for a run in February and a new funny running story to tell; what more could one ask for!!
What better motivation to get onself back into shape than being moo'd at while running!!!
Runner Nerd
mistaken for a cow
A beautiful day for a run in February and a new funny running story to tell; what more could one ask for!!
What better motivation to get onself back into shape than being moo'd at while running!!!
Runner Nerd
mistaken for a cow
Monday, January 30, 2012
Still a nerd
Today I had an exam in one of my classes. I went running after class and after I got done running I had a text message from a classmate that the grades were posted. I had to wait until I got home to look up my grade. ONE HUNDRED PERCENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh yeah!!!! True nerd style!!!
I'm pretty happy about it. This is my diagnostics class. It started out very overwhelming. Taking multiple test results and putting it all together. My head was swimming with facts and figures after the first two class sessions. I really studied over the weekend and made it all make sense.
Runner Nerd
still has it!!
I'm pretty happy about it. This is my diagnostics class. It started out very overwhelming. Taking multiple test results and putting it all together. My head was swimming with facts and figures after the first two class sessions. I really studied over the weekend and made it all make sense.
Runner Nerd
still has it!!
Monday, January 16, 2012
Runner Nerd Runs Slow
Runner Nerd runs slow these days. I ran 4.5 miles yesterday and each mile got slower than the one before. It took me 50 minutes to run 4.6 miles. Today I ran 3 miles in 34 minutes so I am sloooowwww!! I had my gear all packed so I could change after class and head to the nearby small town where I've been running lately but I discovered that I did not have my running shoes. Figures. So, I came home, changed and ran my 3.2 mile route here. I was losing daylight fast even though I was done at 5:17pm.
Yesterday I wore my miracle shirt because it was 20 degrees but today it was 41 degrees and I only needed 2 regular long sleeve running shirts. Only in Michigan. I was pretty excited to wear the miracle shirt but 2 miles into my run I was too warm. This shirt is for really really super cold days! I had a feeling that it wasn't really cold enough to wear it but I just wanted to wear it. My prediction may come true - now that I have this "miracle shirt", we'll have a mild winter and I won't need it!! (I won't complain!)
School is back into full swing now. My first test of the semester is next Monday. I have classes most of the day Monday, and clinicals at a hospital on Tuesdays and Thursdays. My clinicals are afternoon shift so Monday is the only day I have to get up early (or what I consider early)!! I had to give up Tuesday night running group because of my school schedule. I will be there the 1st Tuesday in March because it's spring break and then not again until April 24th. I'm very sad about it but it's all part of being the world's oldest college student.
This weekend I will go back to the public library to camp out at my favorite table for hours in hopes of maintaining my 4.0 GPA. I had forgotten how exciting college life is when I was off for 5 weeks.
It will be fun to watch the daylight last longer and later as I run in the town where the library is after it closes and I leave - 6 p.m. on Fridays and 5 p.m Saturdays and Sundays.
Runner Nerd
running slow
Yesterday I wore my miracle shirt because it was 20 degrees but today it was 41 degrees and I only needed 2 regular long sleeve running shirts. Only in Michigan. I was pretty excited to wear the miracle shirt but 2 miles into my run I was too warm. This shirt is for really really super cold days! I had a feeling that it wasn't really cold enough to wear it but I just wanted to wear it. My prediction may come true - now that I have this "miracle shirt", we'll have a mild winter and I won't need it!! (I won't complain!)
School is back into full swing now. My first test of the semester is next Monday. I have classes most of the day Monday, and clinicals at a hospital on Tuesdays and Thursdays. My clinicals are afternoon shift so Monday is the only day I have to get up early (or what I consider early)!! I had to give up Tuesday night running group because of my school schedule. I will be there the 1st Tuesday in March because it's spring break and then not again until April 24th. I'm very sad about it but it's all part of being the world's oldest college student.
This weekend I will go back to the public library to camp out at my favorite table for hours in hopes of maintaining my 4.0 GPA. I had forgotten how exciting college life is when I was off for 5 weeks.
It will be fun to watch the daylight last longer and later as I run in the town where the library is after it closes and I leave - 6 p.m. on Fridays and 5 p.m Saturdays and Sundays.
Runner Nerd
running slow
Saturday, January 14, 2012
A couple of life's most pressing mysteries solved!
Steve Perry answers the South Detroit question
Well, now we know!!!
Line from a well-known song: "Just a city boy, born and raised in South Detroit".
The reaction from anyone born and raised anywhere in Michigan: "There is no #%&@ place called South Detroit, IT DOESN'T EXIST"
Michiganders tend to get quite upset over this!! (I've never really given it that much thought but I've heard it so many times from friends.)
So, it's just poetic license; it's just what happened to sound right and fit the number of syllables he needed.
The article also addressed another question that I'd never thought of: why a band with no connection to Detroit or even Michigan wrote a song about it. He had the first thoughts of the song during a sleepless night in 1980 in his downtown Detroit hotel room at 2 a.m. Which brings me to another line that I have always wondered about. Steve Perry explains what "streetlight people" are!! I always thought the line was: streetlights - comma - people - comma - whatever whatever, I was never quite sure of all the words. Well, it's one thing - streetlight people. As he was looking out of his hotel window at 2 a.m., he could see people come into the beam of the streetlight and the term, streetlight people, came to him. Ok, that does make sense with the other lines about shadows searching in the night and hiding in the night.
So, there you have it!! One less mystery to have to worry about!!
I will leave you with this thought: don't ever stop believing!! (sorry)
Runner Nerd
will never stop believing
Well, now we know!!!
Line from a well-known song: "Just a city boy, born and raised in South Detroit".
The reaction from anyone born and raised anywhere in Michigan: "There is no #%&@ place called South Detroit, IT DOESN'T EXIST"
Michiganders tend to get quite upset over this!! (I've never really given it that much thought but I've heard it so many times from friends.)
So, it's just poetic license; it's just what happened to sound right and fit the number of syllables he needed.
The article also addressed another question that I'd never thought of: why a band with no connection to Detroit or even Michigan wrote a song about it. He had the first thoughts of the song during a sleepless night in 1980 in his downtown Detroit hotel room at 2 a.m. Which brings me to another line that I have always wondered about. Steve Perry explains what "streetlight people" are!! I always thought the line was: streetlights - comma - people - comma - whatever whatever, I was never quite sure of all the words. Well, it's one thing - streetlight people. As he was looking out of his hotel window at 2 a.m., he could see people come into the beam of the streetlight and the term, streetlight people, came to him. Ok, that does make sense with the other lines about shadows searching in the night and hiding in the night.
So, there you have it!! One less mystery to have to worry about!!
I will leave you with this thought: don't ever stop believing!! (sorry)
Runner Nerd
will never stop believing
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