Boston

I've been in Boston for the past several days. When I emailed Ryan that I was coming, he told to pack my running shoes since the weather was getting nice and that we could run together. I emailed him back, telling him that weather.com said the forecast would be about 40 degrees when I got here and that was not nice. So, instead of packing my running gear, I packed sweaters. And, now, I'm sitting here regretting those sweaters.

The weather hasn't been too bad, though it has been gray and a little drizzly, but nothing too extreme. Today, on my walk to Harvard Medical School to meet Anosheh and Luis for lunch, I crossed a river with a lovely path along it where a man was jogging. That could have been me.

When I get back to San Francisco, I will have gone about two weeks without really running or exercising. And, I'm feeling guilty about it, especially since I know how even harder it will be to start up a regular routine and feel like I'm not worn out after not running for such an extended period of time. I feel like my tummy is getting softer and my arms are geting flabbier, though I know that probably not too much has changed in my body over the past two weeks.

But, Winnie asked me if I want to run a 5K with her at the beginning of May. The race will be a good motivator and it's close enough where I'll have to not be lazy about exercising and running. So, I think I'll say yes. I can run 3.1 miles. I'll need to work on being able to run that faster though.