5 With Noelle! (In Spirit)

Noelle and I both ran 5 miles for each other yesterday! Although hers were through Central Park, and mine were through Somerville. My route was very stop and go, because it involved running to meet up with Back on My Feet (0.85 mi - I've clocked that a lot), my run with them (2.4), a brief stop for our monthly Dunkin' Fridays, and then the remaining 1.75 (0.75 was with a teammate who lives near me, and the last mile was solo).

By the time we were finished, the sun was up. While it's hard to get up while it's still dark to run (especially when you stay up until 1am doing homework...), I LOVE seeing the sun come up. Since I only had a little bit of time by myself I only listened to a little bit of music. But in Noelle's honor I made sure to listen to "Poker Face" by Lady Gaga. Every time I hear this song, I think of Noelle, since we saw the video for the first time on spring break together in San Diego and I think we both did one of these:

BUT WAIT IT GETS BETTER! Yesterday evening I actually went down to New York to see some other friends, so today we actually got to see her and we walked through Central Park...

and went to an exhibit of hats at a gallery at a graduate school were our friend Goose works. They had some really sweet hats that Lady Gaga would probably like.

Seriously, there were five SHOE hats. This place was legit. Then we ate Chinese food. It was a lovely trip, and I got to see some very excellent people, but now I am back in Boston and heading to bed early... long run tomorrow!

Also a quick PSA: I am currently on taper so need to start being careful about when and how far I'm running. So please don't take it personally if I do someone else's run before yours! I promise I'll get everyone's in!
And if anyone wants to donate $262, I can do Boston for you :)