Grassroots Day 7 - Run of Death, U Penn, and Sushi & Cookies!

Sung & Roger contemplating a change in hairstyle

Today I went on a run with Sung.  I have run with Mr. Kang many times.  However, this is my first time running with him since he enrolled himself in some sort of clandestine, navy seal, black ops exercise program called Treadstone.  Now I am no running god, but I do run trail marathons and am in ok shape.  Usually one runs at a certain pace.  Slower at first, higher for the main run, and then slower to cool down.  Mr. Kang was not taught this logic at boot camp.  Running with Sung is like running on a short-circuited treadmill.  Fast, not so fast, super fast, really super fast, etc, etc, etc.  Thank God Manhattan is an island.  Without natural boundaries, I think Sung and I would have ended up in South America.

The gentleman with Sung is the train conductor.  When he heard that Sung was on board, he came on back to ask for an autograph for his son.  My only question is...who the heck was driving the train!? After rubbing Ben Gay over what was left of my legs, we hopped a train toward Philadelphia to speak to the students at University of Pennsylvania.  I must say, the students of UPenn kick ass!  The room (which was a Wharton business school classroom btw) was totally packed and the energy was amazing!  We had a fun Q&A with some of the best questions ever.  The students then took us to another Wharton room for some cookies and sushi...a fine combination of fish and flour.  All and all we had an amazing time at U Penn.  We then took a late night train back to NYC where Julie, Sung, and I winded down our night with a meal of ribs and chicken and 1/8 of a beer.  BTW, we just found out we made Page 5 of the U Penn Newspaper today.  Rad.   -Roger

U Penn KDPhi is in da house!