getting my race in shape

beautiful path in Retiro during my run

Today has been VERY eventful.  Got up to our internet man setting us up.  AWESOME!! i love starbucks but i was getting a little sick of having internet for only a short bit everyday while the other customers looked on as I spoke english to skype everyday.  After that was hooked up Kristina, Michael and I walked to a store about 2 miles away to sign up for the Madrid 10K.  While we were in line to register we heard about another 10K being held in Alcala, just outside of Madrid city, that we decided to register for as well. Great.  Now not only do I have a 10K to look forward to in just 4 days I also will be running another one the first weekend of October :)  Since i haven't run in about 3 weeks this Madrid 10K will be no easy task but I'm still pumped!  After we hiked back to our place we had some lunch and Christina and I went over to retiro park so I could run for a bit and she read a book.  My run was amazing.  There are a million different little paths all thru Retiro for you to run, walk, sightsee, fornicate, or just hang out with a good book.  O, did you catch that one? Yeah, on my run I witnessed my first act of public fornication, which i have heard is no big deal in Retiro park.  Let me be the first to say: EEEWWWWWW.  Not only is it yucky, but it's hot out here.  Like peel your skin off and put it in the freezer hot.  Double yucky.  ANYWAY, after a beautiful run Christina and I hopped on the metro back to our place and naturally grabbed a Doner Kebab for dinner on the way home.  The guys there already know us and gave us a free shot after dinner.  Perfect ending to a great day :)