Pay It Forward, and then run after it.

[wojelah]

Or something like that.

1) Because I signed up for eretria's:

PIF meme: I will send a gift to the first 3 people who leave a comment here in my LJ requesting to join this PIF (Pay-It-Forward) exchange. You will receive it within 365 days (actually probably a lot less than that). The only thing you have to do in return is "pay it forward" by making a similar agreement on your LJ.

The "gift" you send doesn't have to be handmade. (Though in my case, it's likely it will be) It can be fic, icons, whatever.

2) If I have been less than stellar about keeping up with comments, it's because tomorrow is my last day of work, and then a week later, I leave New Orleans for good. I'm excited about moving (and about the week's vacation with family in between leaving here and moving there), but sad. It's been a wild two years, and the City Care Forgot has been very, very good to me, hurricanes notwithstanding. More on that later.

3) Running tonight: I admit, I totally bailed on what was supposed to be a five mile run. I cut it down to three, which, ok - I could feasibly do the five tomorrow, so it's not totally off the books. I did worked on increasing speed, so it wasn't total wash. I managed to cut another 20 seconds off - finished in 56:20. That's 30 seconds, total, I've whittled away, and that's in two days of running.

Fortunately, this is a fall-back week, so I'm not slacking in a BIG way distance-wise, but I'm not really proud of copping out. It was worth it, though - I didn't leave work till 8:15, and wasn't on the treadmill till 8:30, and going home at 10 PM to go in early tomorrow would have just broken me, because after running I CANNOT settle down for a couple of hours. I'm still running high, and I stopped at 9:30.

I desperately need new shoes - I think it's the source of ankle woes, so that's on the MUST do list this weekend. For some reason right now the hardest part is getting started - I was feeling pretty good about life when I hit the 2.5 mile mark, but the first half hour was AWFUL.

The pattern:

1st-2nd 5 min: walk 3.1 mph 2 min, run 3.2 mph 3 min
3rd-4th: walk 3.1 mph 2 min, run 3.2 mph 2 min 30 sec, run 3.3 mph 30 sec
5th-6th: walk 3.1 mph 2 min, run 3.2 mph 2 min, run 3.3 mph 1 min
7th-11th: walk 3.1 mph, run 3.2 mph 1 min, run 3.3 mph 2 min
remainder: run 3.2 mph 1 min 20 sec

Also, holy crap. I just did the math on my average speed - 3.195 mph! Wahoo, gaining almost another tenth of a mile per hour and not wanting to die horribly.

Comments

[eretria.livejournal.com]

Even if it's against the rules: Playing!

[wojelah.livejournal.com]

YAY! *puts thinking cap on* :D

[leesa_perrie]

Hi. If it's not too late, I'd like to play too. I've just finished reading 'The Boy Who Didn't Need Stories' and thought it was very good. Any chance of a ficlet? Doesn't have to be that though - I'm not entirely sure of the rules here, do you choose the gift? Whichever, I'd like to do this. (Off to post on my blog the PIF bit).

Thanks - Oh, and if a ficlet, could it be gen and either Radek, Carson or Rodney, or some combination of such? So long as its gen (or no more shippy than the above story that I've read) I'll be happy. If not a ficlet, that's okay too.