Limerick

since i took my long run on saturday, before my flight, i probably should have run monday. but i was not yet feeling that adventurous, and figured i'd be walking around the city enough that it wouldn't be too bad to skip another day.

today i was ready to run. my program said today was to be a track day, and after a bit of searching, i found the university of limerick has an outdoor track. it's about 3 miles away, which is a little longer than i'd like, but that was ok. there were two routes that i could see on google maps; one on a somewhat major road, and the other along a canal and the river. it's really difficult to tell what either would be like just from google maps, but on the nike+ site i found someone's route that went along the canal and river, and ended up at the track. perfect.

i went out, and for the most part the paths were excellent; restricted to bicycle and pedestrian. unfortunately, i never found the track (i was close!), and just ran back instead. it was a long enough run that i'm not worried about it. i'll probably do a shorter run along the path tomorrow morning before my train (if i can manage to wake up early enough).

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Limerick

now that today wasn't a holiday, the city was much busier. it was nice having more people around. having dinner at a table by yourself in a full restaurant is one thing, but it's pretty ridiculous when you're the only person that doesn't work there.

after getting a muffin at a bakery, i was reading in a small park near king john's castle when two different people came up to me to ask if i was the live 95fm banker, maybe fifteen minutes apart. it was really strange the first time; i had no idea what she was talking about. she explained the whole thing to me, so i was much less surprised when the second person asked. i was hoping this would go on all day, but unfortunately those two were it. if only i had known about this thing when i first got here, i could have paid for this vacation using my in-depth knowledge of the city. that and the fact that he was probably the only other person walking around on sunday and monday.

in news news, i have been avoiding my regular internet news sites, and haven't watched any tv or anything, so i have no idea what is going on in the world. even if there was something newsworthy that everyone was talking about, i have not had much luck deciphering the local accent and would have no clue when merely overhearing. i guess the last of the primaries was today, and i (hopefully) won't find out about the results until i get back. i've resigned myself to the fact that this won't be the case, but it is fun imagining myself "losing" two weeks of the world.

it's 10 pm and it's still light out, but it's just not the same as paris. i am super glad i wrote the names of those places; i'll try to hit them up next week (________ that this trip is almost exactly three years after that one).

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