On Saturday I ran 7 miles (10 kilometers) in the Baltimore Marathon. Together our relay team of four ran the whole 40 km!! It was a very sunny day and thousands of people were cheering us on. It was exciting to wear the microchip ankle bracelet and hand it off to my teammate at the exchange point. We saw a runner dressed like Elvis and one lady in a bat costume. At the end we each received a really nice medal and got to drink Michelob Ultra, complete with crab coozie. We didn’t win the race, of course. The Ukrainians and Kenyans got all the big prizes.
Yesterday it was another beautiful blue-skied day. I went hiking for a few hours with “˜my people’ – the couple I live with – and their dog China, in Patapsco Valley State Park, which is about 30 minutes south of Baltimore. We walked along the Patapsco River, crossed a swinging cable bridge and visited a pretty waterfall.
Lastnight I saw Old Crow Medicine Show, a Nashville-based band of five very talented young men who play old-timey alternative revivalist bluegrass country music on banjo, upright bass, guitar, fiddle and harmonica. I recommend them to anyone! Your toe will be tapping, and the lyrics will make you laugh out loud. I had no control over the whoops and yee-haws that were coming out of me the whole evening.
Today I worked hard on my term paper for my Couples and Reproductive Health course. It’s about the reproductive health needs of HIV sero-discordant couples. I also did 1 1/2 hours of hardcore yoga.
Finals are one week from tomorrow!
