Weird Night

What a strange night last night was. There are two parts to the story.

First, I was out last night doing my HIIT workout. I typically run on the stretch of road that goes underneath the wilson bridge overpass here in Alexandria (aka S Royal St). It stays pretty barren, the limited lighting and the graveyard make it a not very inviting place at night and the most people I usually see during a session are one maybe two. So I am running along when all of a sudden I notice headlights behind me. I try to move out of the way but the car is following me. Finally I stop and turn around and realize it is the police! They pull up beside me and inform me that someone from the neighborhood called and said I was loitering and disturbing the peace. They asked what I was doing, and I explained to them that I was doing a HIIT session, which they didn’t realyl understand. After taking some time to explain the dynamics of HIIT we all came to agreement that I was indeed not loitering since I was on public property and I wasn’t disturbing the peace since the only sound I was making were my feet hitting the ground. The cops got ready to drive away, they looked and me and said, “run quieter,” and drove away. Needless to say I just continued on with my HIIT session. I’ll be damned if some paranoid fogey is going to stop me from my HIIT sessions. I mean what can i do run in slippers? I really can’t see the other side of the fence on this one and normally I try to be open minded.

Anyhow, now that I had my run in with the cops I went home, had dinner, and went through my nightly routine. Well at about 1:30 am I was awoken by the sound of a gorup of people singing at the top of their lungs. They sounded like they were right outside my window. I looked out into the courtyard of my apartment building and couldn’t see anyone. My Wife woke up at this point and opened the window. The singing was even louder, and it was clearly a bunch of drunk people reciting some sort of fraternity song. I yelled a few times out the window for them to keep it down to no avail. Well 2:30 rolled around and I finally decided to do something about it. I didn’t know who the culprit was but I was going to find them. I went to open the door to the hallway and I heard someone knocking on my neighbors door. I opened the peep hole and saw a guy in his pj’s shuffling back down the stairs. It was clear he had just talked to my neighbor. I decided against banging on their door since they had just been notified of their unacceptable behavior. Well, they closed their window, so now all we heard was muffled singing, which I could thankfully sleep through.

Who in the world leaves their windows open and screams full throttlethese frat songs and DOESNT think they’re disturbing anyone else. It’s not like I live in a college dorm, in fact I am miles from any university at all!

Alright my rantingis over, I am tired and disappointed I didn’t get good recovery sleep.

Workout was: 200m + 400m + 600m sprints x3 rounds with 1:1 rest ratio and for fun I did them uphill.

CE: 11/16/90 RT: 2/20 CT: 2/20

Happy Thursday, Cheers - Kevin