State of Mind

I survived my bike ride on Saturday. Did the entire hilly 66 miles (see map below). Talked to all the Mormons on the ride since it was organized by a group of them. But as usual, everyone was much older than me. I miss having swim/bike/running friends within a decade of my age! I mean, it's nice that I know coworkers who are cyclists but they're around my parents' age. It's just such different life experiences.
(attempt to outline elevation with thicker paintbrush)
After I did the ride, I did a brick run around the neighborhood the church meeting place was in. I ran past this house where a bunch of people were standing outside and a guy yells, "How old are you?" I yelled back my age (almost 23) and keep running. A couple houses down, I hear "Do you want my number?" I of course yelled back "No" and then a couple more houses down I hear "I think you're hot!" I rolled my eyes. The area was really rednecky. The creepy part though was at the end of my run when I was running back into the parking lot, I saw the blue pickup from outside the house pull over by the sidewalk near the church. I was like crap, but since it was a Mormon church I assumed they wouldn't go in. So I quickly got into the car and drove out, and the pickup truck pulled away at the same time. It was weird. I don't think I'm going back there anytime soon alone.

And yesterday I survived my 2 hour run. It was hilly and my legs were shot from Saturday so it was just 13.1 miles. A half marathon, haha! And then I went to Davis to eat all-you-can-eat sushi buffet with some friends. I managed to out eat them both, even though the food wasn't that great. It's funny in Austin I never had any Asian food aside from Whole Foods and here it's all I eat when I eat out. A lot of it is pretty mediocre though, particularly the sushi. Not such a fan of deep fried everything.

So last week totaled 20 and a half hours of training. Sort of surprising since I worked a lot, but explains why I felt dead today. I realized towards the end of the ride on Saturday, even though I wasn't super excited or anything like I used to be when riding in Austin, it's a lot of how I look at things that affects my mind. I can go into my ride feeling tired and telling myself I feel tired and then it sucks. But if I tell myself it's a good day and the sun is shining then my run won't be so shitty. And so by suggestion of Soda, and maybe something I did know all along, it's time to transfer work stress into workout energy. We'll see how that goes.

On a good note, I talked to my manager today and he said I did a good job last week. Hooray! And I talked to my other manager earlier and he said the earlier doubt he had of hiring me is gone away and I've proven myself.

I have another topic to blog about, but I'll wait two days for that. I've got more work to do right now. It never ends...