In an act of self punishment I ran an 8k race Saturday morning followed by a 30 mile roundtrip kayaking adventure on Lake Superior. I heard about the race Friday afternoon from my friend Kristina who coaxed me into it. Then she proceeded to destroy me with a time of 29'30+". I came in at 36'14" which is running 7 minute miles. I was actually pretty happy with that. I'm not sure if I even had a month of training that I could have gotten 6' miles.
Immediately after the race Adrian (who flew in from Stockholm last week) and I strapped all of our camping gear on to our kayaks and headed down the Portage towards Superior. At 9PM we found a sandy beach to dock at, ate, set up camp and passed out. The next day I awoke with an urge and realization that we didn't bring any toilet paper, papertowl or even kleenex. To the inexperienced/unprepared oatmeal packet wrappers are AMAZINGLY versatile. The paddle home left us with a sun branding that i'm still placating with aloe three days later.
