My face is so cold

I'm glad the next couple days call for a reduction in volume because it is really friggin' cold out there. It was so cold I almost puked after my second interval this morning. I don't know if that was really because of the cold, but let's just say it was an unpleasant morning. I was meant to do 4 loops of Summit in 8min each (with a bit of a break in between each one), but I only did three and they were much slower than 8min. I guess that's ok though as 8min would have been BTW, and they were pretty much BTW.

The weekend was pretty much just easy running, as Ryan and his friend Adam were in town, so I wanted to not ditch them too much for running. I think it worked out ok. Saturday morning I ran up to Robillard, watched Amélie's race, and then ran home. She did well: 5:15. A little slower than I thought, but she was alone in the race with Arianne Raby, who went out in 37 for the first lap (despite claiming to want to run the thing in 5:10), and Amé got sucked along. She corrected her pace though, and held on, dropping to 44s for two laps, and finishing in 40. I'd say with a more even race, she could run under 5:10. Arianne ended up running 5:08 the hard way, I think. Gabrielle Simoneau ran well in the juvenille race (4:49). I think she could go much faster if she didn't just sit and kick. Most of her laps were in 39, then she just goes in the last 200. Try running faster! Geez...

Sunday I did a swim, then a run. It felt weird on the legs at first, but it was ok after that. This morning's run was hell (see above). Oh well. Easy tomorrow, workout Wednesday, massage on Thursday...woohoo.

I had my law interview today. It was a little disappointing, though I'm not sure what else I could have done. I gave them the answers as to why I wanted to go, why McGill, etc. When they met me they said they were "very impressed" with my file. Man, everyone is always "very impressed" with the file. Anyway, I kind of feel like I let them down after that. They reduced my big talk on why law to: it's interesting and it's a challenge. Then they got me in an argument about whether drug testing in sport is an invasion of privacy. It was just a test to see what I would do in an argument, I suppose, but I wasn't prepared, and I feel like my argument was scattered. They just slowly turned up the heat, poking here and there, to see if I was done. At one point, I did say, quite firmly, "no, that's not a contradiction" and explained why. C.H., you bastard, you should have been there, you would have liked it. I mentioned your hate for Dick. They kind of raised their eyebrows (seeing as how he is the chancellor of McGill, haha), but don't worry, I didn't mention you by name.

Who knows? It might have actually gone quite well. The guy after me was a middle eastern dude, all dressed up in a suit (I wore a nice shirt, but not a suit), and really nervous. He asked me how it was. I said it was easy. He asked me: "What did they ask?" "Just questions about yourself. Relax, man." People get really worked up about this stuff.

Also, I looked up some of the professors at McGill, mostly to see about the two dudes that interviewed me. I was interviewed by this guy: http://people.mcgill.ca/fabien.gelinas/ and this guy: http://people.mcgill.ca/robert.leckey/ Law professors have done a lot of stuff. So I guess it is ok if they managed to keep me on my toes in an argument. I am not used to losing arguments...law school could be fun!