Hip deep

Classes began a few days after I wrote last, explaining the gap between then and now. A few days after that walk, I ran the Sutherland to Surf, an 11km fun-run. 2 weeks later I ran the City2Surf, Sydney's (indeed, the WORLD'S biggest fun run with 80,000 participants). I learned a few things from these races:
1) Capilene, Patagonia's synthetic thermals, are way too warm to run anything over 25 minutes in.
2) Training makes races easier. The inverse is also true.
3) Plastic cups at drink stations are messy and slip hazards.
4) In Australia, kilometres are measured subjectively: they can be any distance between 1/4 to 2 times the actual length they are meant to measure.

With so many lessons learned, I'm totally ready to kick some ass on my next go. I think I might sign up for a 10k that runs around the Olympic park. I reckon that would be kind of cool, plus a bunch of folks from my program are doing it too :)

School has been pretty good- I'm really enjoying my readings, especially for economics. This is shocking considering how much I dreaded class when I took micro and macro back in sophomore year. I think what's interesting about this class is that we're discussing the tricky, sticky political and social issues as well. It's also a bit depressing when I come out of class all excited about the possibility of learning to live within our ecosystemic means, then see some drunk girl on the train with no pants on. True story.