Day 3,362 —Happy America Day! —

If you think about it, naming holidays after the date is lazy and is only acceptable when it is a universal tragedy that nobody wants to take responsibility for. Yet, on a day like today, why not just call it America Day? Sure, most people don’t refer to “America” as shorthand for the United States of America. I did hills and stairs, and I lost the nozzle for my water reservoir. I bought a new one shortly after I got home. I was frustrated with how, when you go upstairs on a run, your watch barely recognizes it. I did laps of two different staircases, and it would show that I moved .03 miles after I went up the stairs and returned down. It does feel good to push on the hills, enough that I felt myself genuinely getting tired.