auntiemeesh | (no subject)

Obama's speaking at CMU this morning. Some sort of by-invitation-only economic summit. And the place to have these sorts of talks is Weiland Gymnasium, which is part of the gym complex I use on Tues/Thurs mornings. There were a ton of people floating around already, when we got to the gym at a little before seven this morning, and it was worse when I left at eight-thirty. Security wasn't even allowing people to walk towards the building without showing their invitation.

It's interesting. McCain was here (same building/room) in the madness leading up to the April primary. And yeah, there were a lot of people lined up to hear him speak, and there was the same plethora of news vans, but there was much less overt and overwhelming security. The doors weren't all closed off, and there weren't nearly as many security people swarming all over the place. I suppose part of it is that this is an invitation-only summit, so they don't want just anyone wandering in, but they've also got the metal detectors and wands out, which I didn't see for McCain (not to say they weren't there, just I didn't see them).

Anyway, we were still able to use the locker rooms (directly across the hall from Weiland) and the room with the treadmills, so it was fine. I forced myself to take a break from running, and used the treadmill today. 3.5 miles in 39:50 minutes (the last .25 were a slow cool down). I was doing sprints, and got my steps/min up to 250 during the fastest parts, which surprised me - I've never done that before. I also did some incline intervals, so I think it was a good workout, even though the ellipticals feel a little like fake exercise to me.