What a heck of a walk or rather run down memory lane this morning. There’s a series of rock/ punk runs on the far side of Kuzminki where I used to slog out long runs in the winter . The summer trail over that way is rooty and rutty especially to get from my side of the park to the loop we ran today. I signed up for this last month after seeing they were doing this one to the music of Сектор Газа. I read on the site that 95% of ppl over 40 in Russia have them in their playlists- ok guilty as charged 
I started listening to them waaaay back in high school! I spaced signing up for the Виктор Цой/Кино one last month so I wasn’t going to miss this as the finisher medals are really effin cool and I’d get to run to the stuff I listened to as a kid and still do. I chose the half because of need a good long tempo workout for training now. I ran second til about 7 k in and caught the first girl. It’s a trail run so not gonna be super fast. I ended up winning the half and rocking to the classics from my teenage years. Ironically, years later in grad school at Moscow State I had a current events class where I had to listen to recordings of the news and summarized them. For me it was like listening to voicemail. I’d have to hear it once or twice and that was it. My professor said most ppl need 17-18 times before they can summarize the clips. I had a similar listening exam at grad school In Middlebury and had to listen/summarize/ fill things in I’d heard. It was easy and apparently I scored off the charts because they didn’t give it to me later in to gauge progress. I said well I’ve had a Russian rock/ heavy metal habit since I was a teenager and I watch the news and tv so I’m just used to hearing ppl talk fast I guess 
I started listening to them waaaay back in high school! I spaced signing up for the Виктор Цой/Кино one last month so I wasn’t going to miss this as the finisher medals are really effin cool and I’d get to run to the stuff I listened to as a kid and still do. I chose the half because of need a good long tempo workout for training now. I ran second til about 7 k in and caught the first girl. It’s a trail run so not gonna be super fast. I ended up winning the half and rocking to the classics from my teenage years. Ironically, years later in grad school at Moscow State I had a current events class where I had to listen to recordings of the news and summarized them. For me it was like listening to voicemail. I’d have to hear it once or twice and that was it. My professor said most ppl need 17-18 times before they can summarize the clips. I had a similar listening exam at grad school In Middlebury and had to listen/summarize/ fill things in I’d heard. It was easy and apparently I scored off the charts because they didn’t give it to me later in to gauge progress. I said well I’ve had a Russian rock/ heavy metal habit since I was a teenager and I watch the news and tv so I’m just used to hearing ppl talk fast I guess 
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