Back from Vacation

**Note that this post was supposed to have gone out about a week ago after we got back from vacation but I completely forgot it was sitting in the draft bin so it's now out of date.**

OK, so I was pretty terrible about posting while away on vacation. Oh, and I was pretty terrible about running on vacation as well. FOr the former, I have no excuse other than I was on vacation and only got on my laptop to check my work e-mail and keep the inbox as clean as possible (I get literally somewhere in the neighborhood of 1,000 e-mails a day, most of it research.)

For the latter, I have a very good excuse: I had no shorts. That's right. I laid out my running shirts I wanted to take several nights in advance of our departure, but I did not pack my shorts or compression shorts because we were going to wash some clothes before we left and I wanted clean shorts. Unfortunately, my wife washed the clothes and then put them away in the drawers, and I totally forgot to pack the shorts. I don't even realize it until Wednesday when we were going to rent bikes and ride through Charleston for the day. I went to find shorts and compression shorts, thinking I was so smart for bringing them along, only to realize that I had packed neither!

Awesome. I had some mesh shorts that worked just fine, but I was unable to run the whole week as a result of not having the right shorts. But my running shirts came in handy on the aforementioned bike ride and to cover up a nasty sunburn I got on the very first day we were on the beach.