Big Weekday

It was major.  I had to go to jury duty and the condo association's first meeting.  This is huge amount of out and about for me.  My typical weekday is I get up leave on my pajamas and start work.   I work til about noon and then change into workout clothes to run.  After the run, I shower and then put my PJs back on as I don't need to leave the condo so why actually get dressed.

Yesterday, I had to get up, shower and get dressed.  This hasn't happened in a long time.  I can't even remember the get out of bed shower in the past year at home.  It just doesn't happen. I walked over to the bus stop instead of trying to drive to the courthouse.  They had free parking but why bother.  I just sit on a bus for 30 minutes and pay $1.35 one way or get in the Escape for 20 minutes and burn through a gallon of gas for the whole trip.  I'm lazy and try not to drive at all costs so I went bus.

I got to the courthouse a little early so I went over to the nearest Starbucks.  They have officially finished the holiday menu so I went for my usual decaf drip Venti.  I sat and tried to dry out from the bus stop to Starbucks walk.  It was pouring and a whopping 36 degrees more on the weather later.

We sat through a dumb orientation video and then waited for our number to be called.  I was 110 and my number wasn't called til the last group at around 10:45.  We went to the courtroom and sat for 5 minutes, the case settled, and we went back to the jury holding area.  That was the last case so we got to go home right afterwards.  I didn't even bother staying around for some stupid jury certificate and just left.  At least I don't have to go through that again for at least 3 years.

I got back and it had stopped raining.  Great, maybe I'd stay dry for my first structured running workout since August, hill repeats.  I had to sit in on a conference call and by the time I made my way outside it was raining.  Oh joy, raining and 36 degrees.  I sucked it up and proceeded to attempt a warmup to a hill.  It's not really hilly around here so I did my best to find a decent one.  I tried 3 separate hills.  The first one was hard but too short.  The second one was even shorter than first and on top of that easier.  The third and final hill was long enough with a gradual increase in steepness.  Voila perfect for today.  I did 3 repeats on it and 5 in total.  I felt super fast even though my legs were beet red.  I ran out of long pants so I was in shorts.  I'd probably overheat in Oregon these days as it wasn't super bad.

Later last night, I walked over to a local restaurant where the first condo association meeting was being held.  Almost half of the current residents turned out to vote on the board members.  The builder who still holds 26 units had a majority so it really didn't matter what we wanted, he ruled.  At least he was fair but still it was pretty weird that he didn't let us know about that little tidbit of information before the meeting as it could've maybe drove more participation.

So between two bus rides, a room full of jurors and the condo meeting, I saw more people than yesterday than any one day in the past 6 months at home.  The big day must've made me tired because I didn't feel like waking up at 4:30 to do my standard run, swim, spin, run workout.  I think I may have gotten lucky those because all the wet roads froze over night so it could've been a treacherous run on the dark sidewalks.  I'll do my best to force myself out of bed tomorrow even though the temperature will probably be about 25 degrees.  Did I mention how much I hate winter over here?