C25k and DMB

Starting Week 4 of the C25k tomorrow morning. Did my last Week 3 run last night, and it didn't go all that great. I'm having some shin pain. I can't tell if it is muscle or bone pain, but it hurts like an mneffer. I tried to do some good stretching last night after the run, and again this morning before and after my elliptical, but it was lingering. I'm going to keep my eye on it.

We had a great weekend. Uncle Bennycakes stayed over with Ellen so John and I could go see Dave Matthews at Fenway and stay in the city overnight. We had a room down at the Hilton Boston Financial District. It was a beautiful hotel. Our room had recently been redone, and it was pretty glorious, if small. The hotel was a bit of a pain to get to, being as it is 5 or 6 blocks from the nearest trains. It's also pretty far down into the financial district (um, hence the name), so there's not really a lot going on down there in the night. Not a huge deal, but as we were planning to return to it fairly late, we definitely could have stayed somewhere safer. After the concert (which was pretty fun and great, thanks Guy and Shai!), we decided to forego going back to Cambridge to hang out with the crew in lieu of an earlier bedtime and more shut-eye. We couldn't get a cab back to the hotel, so we walked to Back Bay and hopped on the green line there. We walked down from Government Center, and toward the end we encountered some shadyness. There were two angry, large men arguing about a half block from the entrance of the hotel. As we approached, a lady of the night fled in the opposite direction. We had definitely interrupted something. I should have expected as much from a hotel that requires a key for re-entry after sundown. Anywho, we fairly ran into the hotel after inserting our key, and we were able to avoid being gunned down. (Phew!)

We went upstairs and ate Wendy's, watched some college softball on ESPN, and were asleep by 12:30.

We arose at the break of 10am (man, that was nice!), and scurried home to see Uncle Bennycakes and Miss Ellen. Ellen had had a great night. Uncle Ben took great care of her, despite the fact that the dogs went into a frenzy at midnight and 5am, waking her both times. He handled it with grace, however. All in all, it was a great success!