Running: not quite there yet

Went to running class tonight. I am definitely making progress on running fast, but not yet on endurance...

We did three one-mile intervals around the south loop of Central Park today, with a short jog back to the starting point in between. My times got linearly worse: 6:24, 6:34, 6:44. I was totally out of energy the on the last half mile of the third run, and finished towards the back of the group - very disappointing.

Since I signed up for a 10K race in four weeks, I had better start working really, really hard on the endurance. Time to start doing 7 to 10 mile runs in the park each weekend. Quite how to combine that with all the moving prep is yet to be determined.

Housing update

We're making some progress on the new apartment. Today I put in the medicine cabinet in the bathroom, and the super replaced two broken panes of glass and started moving the light fixture in the dining room. He'll complete that tomorrow morning (Heidi can attend for a change). The walls that Heidi painted over the weekend look really good.

The bad news is that the IKEA delivery today was a bust. The guys showed up on time, delivered all the bookshelf components to our fifth floor, but the sofa didn't fit. Now, Heidi and I had measured our doorway, and the sofa definitely would fit through that - but it never made it up the stairs, as it could not make the very first corner.

We'll have to look for another sofa, probably not a sleeper/sofa but a traditional one, and specifically one that can be taken apart by the delivery team, then lugged up the stairs in pieces, then re-assembled. Which means we won't have a sofa when we move in - grumble.

We do have a provisional moving date - April 26th. We might postpone that if our contractor can start work on the washer/dryer before then - it makes no sense to live in dust and noise if postponing the move by a few weeks avoids all that.

I'm starting to understand why moves are stressful...