Just a little bit of tracking on a planned easy day.
The other day, I was giving Jenny a ride to the restaurant after O training. We were changing at the car, and talking about shoes, and I got distracted. I knew I had not taken my orthotics out of my O shoes and transferred them to my new shoes. But what I didn't realize until the next morning was that I had not put my O shoes into the car at all. I think I left them in the parking lot, near the driver's door.
Drove back to the lot at 7 am, but the shoes were gone. I have contacted campus lost and found, but I have little hope. I'm really mad about losing the expensive, custom orthotics. I've been very good about wearing them all the time over the last three years. Quite mad at myself that I didn't follow my usual procedure and move them to the next pair of shoes.
So today, I went and tried the Dr Scholl's thingy that tells you which of their inserts to buy. I stepped on the foot pads, and the lights were blinking but never settled. So the machine asked me: are you still wearing your shoes? I said no. It tried again. No luck. Then it asked: do you weigh less than 135 pounds? Made me smile, and helped alleviate a little bit of my sadness. Once I said, yes, the program worked fine.
Leisurely bike ride with Mike. Topics of conversation included economic projections for new city projects; our dinner at Cafe Beautiful and the status of our landscaping.
orienteer18:07*** 2.2 km (8:14 / km) +54m7:20 / km ahr:171 max:188 8c
Jenny B has arrived! Jenny is a student at Uppsala U who will be studying at KU this year. So we had a welcome event on campus tonight, and ran last year's Geo Awareness Week course. Good to see Gene, Fritz and Pete again. Nice dinner with everyone after.
Unbeleivable! It was 75 degrees today! In August! in Kansas! At the end of the day! And I rescheduled my usual Wednesday night training for Monday this week. At first I was bummed to be working indoors, but when I mentioned it to my trainer, he took some pieces of equipment up to the glass lobby, opened all the doors, and we worked "outside". It was great.