I COULD be bad at math

October 16th,2007

So yeah..I am TERRIBLE at math...Can we all just admit that?! I seriously thought I remembered what all the distances were, I really thought I remembered that the full length of the street was .8. So I was going to go all the way up and all the way back, which should have been 1.6. Then I was going to go around my mile loop 1.5 times. Turns out, that was not the correct calcuation..and what I thought was .8 was not. It was really .7...which doesnt make a HUGE difference, unless you do it twice...which means what I thought was 3, was really 2.6...
(ok, closer to 2.5...) So that was upsetting when I was feeling all good about it and realized that it wasnt true at all...
HOWEVER..
I drew the map and used a calculator on my times and found that I had done my 2.5 at a SUB 16 minutes...Even with the gianormous hills. (i mean, gianormous)

Now I'm just chillin with my breakfast...
And I feel pretty good about my night last night, because I WAS presented with the opportunity to go to the fair, and I KNEW that would mean I would eat a TON of crap and not get to bed on time, and I chose not to do that. I'm only a LITTLE bummed that I missed the fair, but feeling pretty good that I got up and did sub 16s. :0)

thats pretty good to me.

Because the way I see it, I might be sacrificing a little fun now, just here and there, but in the end, if i actually keep this up for a year, I'll be finishing a half ironman...What the crap!? That's WAY better than any stupid fair. PSH...Please.

ok, I gotta run, I have to get to Walmart before work as I'm out of my snacks.

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