How Did I Get Here?

Quote of the Day: “If a mute swears, does his mother wash his hands with soap?”

Back to 2-a-days, at least for Monday. See, in my ever-evolving workout plan, I’ve gone back to working out 3 days per week (M-W-F) and running 4 days per week (M, T, Th, Sat) with all Sundays as a rest day. You know, like God.

So you see, Mondays need to be a two-a-day which although a shitty way to start a week, it’s coming off a day of rest.

I also reverse the normal gym schedule because everyone and their muscular dog works chest on Monday. So I do legs and shoulders so I have those machines to myself (who in their right mind does the most hated exercises on the first day of the week?). After back and bicep’s on Wednesday, it leaves Friday with chest and triceps. Although the most popular exercises, by Friday most of the wannabees have given up for the week and started their weekend slovenliness early, thus leaving the machines free.

At lunch, I ran the 5 miles and it sucked for a simple reason. At about the ½ mark, the road I was on merges with another road and with it came another runner. I got about 20 feet in front of him and of course, it created the situation where someone was right on my heels.

I was still quite a bit sore from Saturday’s 20 mile death run so naturally, I …. ran my ass to keep in front of the son-of-a-bitch.

This is how running goes, folks.

I was keeping ahead of him but I could hear him right behind me and my peripheral vision (which I was trying to use discreetly, with limited success, I’m sure) told me he was following step for step, even though I was pushing it. Bastard.

We were coming to a big hill that doubled as the 1 mile point where I normally stop and take my one-minute walking break. As I bolted up the hill (just KNOWING this would break him), I discovered he had closed the gap and was a mere couple of steps behind me as we raced up the hill.

I was not going to play this game. I stopped and I’m sure it puzzled him why I did so, after showing I had plenty of strength to go on. He probably thought I had spent myself, which I kinda had but I had 5 miles to do and had already went into all kinds of energy debt in the first mile.

Fine, let the bastard go and savor his little victory.

I paid for this little race for the rest of the run. I slogged 4 more miles but even so, I hit my normal mile breaks way past when I normally do which means the little sprint at first had carried over for the rest of the run.

When I got back, I did a little research about races around San Diego. I know, I’m counting eggs before they hatch and all but I couldn’t help myself.

Are there any running events around San Diego?

OH MY GOD!

Very quickly, I filled my dance card for 2007 with stuff I already knew about. Here is a schedule that will likely kill me:

San Diego Marathon Jan 21, 2007

LA Marathon Mar 18, 2007

WWW May 5, 2007

Bishop 50 May 19, 2007

Rock and Roll Marathon June 3, 2007

San Diego 100 Oct 20, 2007

If I move in September, I miss out on the Marine Corps Marathon, the JFK 50 miler, and the Umstead 100. The only one in 2006 that I would be there for is the San Diego 100 but that is putting cart before the horse. In fact, there would be no horse, just a cart sitting there since I will not be ready for my first 100 and wouldn’t even qualify yet (you need a 50 miler in the last year). In 2007, that should be taken care of by the Bishop.

So if everything works out, I will run the Wild Wild West in May and then not have another run until Jan 21st? Um, I don’t think so. I’m not trashing
8 months fo potential race time. I’ll find something else during that time.

It IS San Diego, after all.

Some other potential problems is that WWW/Bishop/Rock and Roll triad. The timing there is tight with only 2 weeks between the first two (which I’ve done before) and 2 weeks between the second two. But I’ve done worse with marathons a week apart and the 50 two weeks later.

The 5-month break between the Rock and Roll and the San Diego 100 is a little troubling but it’s coming off the triad and I’ll need the time and training for my first 100-mile race. But there is 3 months after that until the San Diego Marathon rolls around again so I’ll have to figure out if only one race (albeit a 100-miler) is enough for an eight month period.

OK, enough obsessing about running…. for now.

Free Advice for Today: “Display your street number prominently on your mailbox or house in case emergency vehicles need to find you.”

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