Catch Up: Boeing 3000m. It tastes green. Don't read a 600 pg book in 2 days. Swim TT. I fell.

Last week I ran a 3000m. Yeah, it's actually been that long since I got around to writing about it. This week has been crazy, more about that later. But race report: overall it didn't go as well as I had hoped. I felt I was ready to pull off a good one, and wanted a new PB. The goal pace was 45 second laps, which would be 11:15. I felt good going into it, and there was no reason I couldn't do it. However, I guess I started out too fast. I went out in a 40s, followed by a 41s before settling into a better pace. My first kilometer was still on pace, 3:43 (goal: 3:45). Half way through I was also still on pace. Someone passed me and I got right on her and tried my best to stick to the pace. Began to fade.... second kilometer time was 7:37 (goal: 7:30), darn it. The last kilometer was the worst, I fell off the other girl and finished in 11:40. Her speed was closer to what I wanted and had I started out at a more reasonable pace, maybe I would have been able to stay on at a consistant speed the whole time. Oh well. It wasn't a really bad race. Just not, you know, good. So yeah, it was disappointing. I stuck around to watch a few more races after that. Boeing is a pretty big meet and quite a few friends were there, it was good to catch up with some. Then some of us went out for shamrock shakes, yum. I still don't really know how to describe what that is for the (surprisingly large amount of) people that don't know. It tastes green. Not exactly mint, but kind of. Someone said like the green ice cream in the middle of rainbow ice cream. Whatever, I had my shake for the year, I'm happy. Then I went to hang out with some other friends, because I could. It was a good time, but the start of many late nights unfortunately. Sunday I worked untill 11, I hate doing that because it makes me start off my whole week tired. Monday night I talked late to a friend. Tuesday and Wednesday were my nights of intense reading. This was the main cause of my craziness this week. I will try to never put off reading a 600 page book until the last few days again. And if you were thinking about trying it, don't. Someone gave me an audio book, but again, only in the last 2 days. It would have been about 45 hours of listening. At least I can read faster than that. But I found the audio book to be quite useful during the times I couldn't physically be reading. While I was biking, making my lunch for the next day, brushing my teeth, cleaning/packing my various clothing, and while studying for that chem test I also decided to ignore until 2 days before. Multitasking to the max! Yes, I actually thought it was a good idea to studying and "read" at the same time. I wasn't too bad at it actually, although I think the test went badly and I barely finished the book in time to write a quiz on it. Once both those were done I felt like I could stop and breath for the first time in about 3 days. I also enjoyed my first meal tonight without either of those things. Yes, I actually read and studied through breakfast, lunch, and dinner those days, it was quite depressing. Anyways, at least the book was actually quite good. I would consider re-reading it, when I actually have time. Hmm what else. Oh, I plan on doing a swim time trial next week! Byron did not even laugh at me when I asked him during last week's massage, like most people thought he would. Since I had been doing well with my swimming and had done two weeks of 2 times 15 minutes of constant freestyle swim without my shoulders screaing at me, why not? So we made a plan. This week I wanted to swim 4 times. Big steps, I know. I'm going to have to cut down to 3 though, because my shoulder did start hurting pretty bad again so I skipped this morning. Then next week I will swim 15 minutes again on Monday, and do my 400m on Tuesday! Also, unrelated: this week I biked on rollers. I fell. Someone said I should blog about it. There, I blogged about it. (Don't worry it wasn't serious at all, I laughed and got right back on. I think the problem was I am getting a bit too comfortable with it and taking a bit more risk when getting on, which caused me to fall). So yeah, until someone tells me to blog about something else random, I think I'm done for now. Hope the title gave a decent summary of what you would be in for. I actually made it up afterwards, and I know later it's going to bother me that it's so long and doesn't look neat like the others. But thanks for reading, if you actually got to the end of my ramblings. And as promised last time, keep reading, cause I'll keep postin'.