More HK and Half-marathon

The rest of the conference involved me trying desperately not to fall asleep and then kind of getting hit on by some venture capitalist guy, which is not the same one that I was talking about earlier. It was actually his partner, whom had spent a year in Ann Arbor and had also done his Ph.D. at Harvard so I told him he sucked. Actually I'm kidding, I didn't, but he did give me his business card and then emailed me after the conference which was kind of stalkerish. But hopefully it'll be a good networking thingy. I also ended up going to this really touristy area called Tsim Sha Tsui, which was exactly like the asian cities in the movies: huge buildings, lots of neon lights, basically chaos on the streets. Did not get lost though. Go me. I had some excellent sushi which was rolled into little balls or cut into cubes. Much fresher than anything we can get over here in Michigan. Then flew 3.5 hours to Tokyo and 11 hours back to Detroit and along with the 12 hour time difference somehow managed to get back on EST (somewhat) before the Detroit marathon.

So I ran the half, and that went pretty well, I got about the time I wanted to get, and considering I blew off a lot of the training and was probably still jet-lagged I think I did pretty well for my first time. The race was tough though -- the course is pretty difficult due to the tunnel (1 mile underground, not much air and it's weird) and the Ambassador bridge. You run over the bridge into Canada, which is cool, but it was so crowded on the bridge that we all bumped into each other and almost had to stop running at one point. People were not pleased because it slowed us all down A LOT. Anyway, I finished, so yay! Would like to do another couple half marathons and then maybe a full when I have more time to train properly. Was fun though, and crazy to see that many people freezing their asses off at 7:15 in the morning when it's 30 degrees and not even light out yet. AWESOME.