Liking or not liking specific foods is a weird concept. Why don’t some people like some foods while others like it? Why do some people not like foods when cooked a certain way? Why do some people not like specific foods by itself but like it when mixed with other foods?
These thoughts just came to me as I’m eating this Taiwanese Rice Roll (fahn tuan (no I don’t know the correct pinyin)). The outside is rice, and the inside consists of pork sung, and a chinese donut (chinese cruller) (yo tiao). The thing is, I think these are pretty good but I also don’t really like pork sung and I don’t like chinese donuts! I never eat the chinese donut when we go to chins. Odd.
Another thought – I don’t like mustard – it’s gross. I also don’t like pretzels – they’re not that good. BUT, mustard flavored pretzels are good! Haha. Random right?
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I conquered Miramar Lake – and by conquer, I mean that I ran it all the way around non-stop at a pretty good pace even if I say so myself. I was really debating whether I should try to make it around the lake or not. I think the longest run I’ve done prior to today is about 4 miles. I really wanted to make it around the lake – it would be much better than just stopping at one point and turning around. Miramar Lake is also not flat – there aren’t any major hills but it does have some short spurts of ups and downs pretty frequently. My goal was to run it under 52 minutes without stopping. The loop, while most people say is 5 miles is really 4.92 – so just a bit shy. Most of the time I’ve been running – I run at about a 10 minute pace and add on to that when there are hills involved. Recently I’ve been trying to speed up. I was doing pretty well throughout most of the run – always checking at each half mile and mile to make sure I was going under 10 minutes/mile. I must have been going pretty fast early on – I think these were the splits (is that what it’s called?) 1 mile / 9:16; 2 miles / 19:10; 3 miles 29:15; 4 miles 39:30; 4.92 miles; 48:48. I also remember getting kinda tired near the end but really trying to push through.