more intervals

Did another interval workout today--it felt good.  Question for readers: what shoes do you wear to track workouts?  Normally, I go to the track in flats but lately I've just been wearing trainers.  I'm working on remedial speed, so the extra second or seconds flats would give are beside the point. 

Every time I think my Italian is getting better I actually have to speak it to an Italian, who proves that I have a lot more to learn.  It's amazing the vocab one doesn't know when one transplants one's hobbies to a foreign country.  The whole vocabulary of running is completely mysterious.  How does one say 400? split? interval? lane one? jog?  Only because it's amusing do I know the word for tracksuit: tutta sportiva.

I will not know how to apologize in public for too short shorts--I won't know the words.  Speaking of short shorts--I had a weird, weird dream last night.  I dreamt I showed up at the important conference in my field wearing all clothes appropriate for a conference--a nice sweater over a dress shirt--and lime green split racing shorts.  I only started to realize this was in appropriate when someone made a comment, then I put on jeans and thought to myself that running shorts make the most comfortable underpants.

A softball for Dr. Freud

Anyway--a topic I want to cover soon is how we think of the relationship between running and work life.  To me, the integration is harder than I think it is for most.  I tend to compartmentalize things and I try hard to keep those compartments sealed off.  I'll say more about this in future posts, and why I think compartmentalizing our lives is underrated.