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I got a bike!!!!!!!!! :D

March 28, 2012 (Morning)

Exercise Type: Bike

Comments:
soooo funny story :D

I proofread and edited Krzysztof's masters thesis on calcium formation in concrete structures. It was atrocious. Okay, it was intelligent. It was pretty over my head. BUT the grammar was HORRENDOUS. EYES BLEEDING!! but I suppose I have to take it easy on the guy who just started learning english a few years ago. I give him some credit :P Anyway, I spent about 6 hours marking the thing up entirely (I had to fix every single sentence). then he came by to pick it up, and he dropped off a bike!!! he has lots and lots of bikes, but most of them are pretty shitty. he got me a nice bike!!!! a new green women's mountain bike :) he says his neighbor was getting rid of it but I'm about 110% sure that he stole it. :P sooo he gave me a lock and key and ran off, leaving me standing there in shock. then I went and locked it to the fence. on the other side of the fence, there are dense, thorny bushes and a train track. I somehow, of course, managed to throw the key into the mess of thorns, AFTER locking up the bike!! soo he stopped by later that night and attacked the bike lock with a wrench, completely destroying it and thus freeing the bike. I bought a new lock for it. I thought he'd never be able to get the lock off, but he said "I have experience with this..." DUH, YES, of course you do, YOU STOLE THE BIKE!!!!! :P

Anyway, this was my first ride on my new bike!! went out the Taff trail as long as you can go without getting on the roads, then biked back into Cardiff again, then out and back again. I tried to push the pace as much as I could. IT"S SUUUUCH A LOVELY DAY!!!! :D then I laid out in the grass all afternoon and ate half a tub of ice cream with nutella and strawberry compote (like jam only BETTER!!!!) and studied solid mechanics.

It's a nice day. :)

ALSO!!!!!!!

I saw on fb that the girl they chose to run the 5k at BUCS outdoor track championships for Cardiff instead of me was running parkrun this weekend. Naturally, I stalked her. even though I'm not running right now, I do powerwalk 5-8 miles a day and bike hard pretty often, so I feel like I'm not losing my running abilities quite as quickly as I could be... anyway she ran a 19:44 today. 19:44!!!!!!!! They turned me down with a 18:28 5k PR, and I ran a 18:58 at parkrun (the exact same course, the same conditions, the same weather, the same everything!!!) a week and a half ago!!!!! I'm so mad, even if I probably shouldn't be. they're letting her run the 5k and making me run the fucking 4by4. the 4BY4. This is a nightmare.

I want to run the 5k!!!! >.< maybe I shouldn't be talking, though, because at the moment I can't even run anyway... It hurts enough to walk that I'm pretty sure I would have been booted two weeks ago if I were still at Case... oh well.