Done, Done, Done, and Done

Recipe for Health:

• Four days, four runs (45 min., 40 min., 40 min. and 22 min.)
  
• One 90-freakin'-minute BIKRAM class. *Yum!)
  
• One bike session.
  
• One—my very first, in years— killer strength class (though with an awesomely cute instructor. Who, of course, is not on my team).

And you'd think that would be enough to satisfy one's coach? Oh no. Now I have to add five minutes to everything next week. I must say though, I'm feeling, well, awfully, um, sore? But in a good way. A really good way.

Speaking of good: My i-pod Shuffle came in the mail today. This is the one that I signed up for was suckered into signing up for with audible.com. The offer was for $22 for six months of audible.com, plus a shuffle! And speaking of Too Good to Be True: It's $22 per month, you idiot. I could have bought a cheaper, MP3 player with more bells and whistles! Still, this will be the first time I've run with anything on my head other than my hat. Or anything in my ears other than the songbirds, gurgling brooks, honking horns, and screeching brakes of my native Bethesda.

Speaking of horns and brakes, here's a noncommittal article from the WaPo on what exercising while breathing car exhaust can do to you.

I'm off to make Dianna's fab ginger mango streusal creation. Then off to Charlottesville in the wee hours, where please God, do not let me get stranded in the widely trumpeted upcoming blizzard. Cuz I got a b-day to get on!