There was only one mission to complete today: collecting my race package at the Remai Centre for the River Run Classic 2013. I ended up registering for the 10 km race. My initial plan was to do the half marathon, but being that I'm nine weeks behind in this year's training, and considering that I trained better last year for that half marathon, and still ended up getting injured from that race (sciatic injury), it prompted me to think and act a little more prudently this time around. I'll keep training more after this, and continue seasoning myself up for the half-marathon race of the Mogathon in late September. I'm coming close to tallying up 4000 kilometers of recorded running distance since I started keeping track. My ambition is to reach that by this month's end. I'm undecided as to what my reward will be when I complete that, or what it will be after this upcoming race.
It rained throughout the better part of this day, from early morning until just an hour ago. It is late afternoon now, and the sun is just beginning now to struggle to poke some rays through the clouds. There is nothing much I could do with the day, or can do with the remainder of it. I'm tapering, so I didn't run. I'm trying to follow some new training advice given to me about staying off my feet the day before the race, and doing less unnecessary walking/movement, and trying to rest up as best as possible. I don't think I was too successful at this, even with being penned up much of the time inside due to the downpour. I'll have to wake up around 6:00 AM on Sunday morning, so it's pointless to begin an evening of heavy dining and drinking, or anything else really epic, if I want to have any chance of performing well tomorrow. I'm feeling stiffness in my upper torso now that I don't know how I acquired. I hope it clears itself away overnight.
It was the kind of day where all I was pretty much left to do was withdraw and dwell within my familiar little introverted mindscape: multilingual reading, programming lessons, doing a bit of armchair traveling, surfing the net, and viewing You Tube and Netflix was all I did. It's becoming a bit stale and boring.
I may leave town after tomorrow's race and make some stops to surprise some people. We will see.
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