I’ve signed up to travel 100 miles on my feet in under 34
hours. This is another new step in the
whacky world of Justin. Come September I’m
going to beast it. There are reasons I’m
single, I accept this, I’m crazy. I’m
coo coo for coco puffs. If coco puffs is
synonymous for needing to create a savings fund for my future titanium knee
caps. I’m going to be half
terminator. Thumb up… Get it?
Full disclosure, the pictures? They don't have anything to do with this. But people like pictures.
There are things about my body I’ve learned to accept. You know how kids want to go out and
play? But it’s raining. The rain is pouring down and just spoiling
everyone’s party. My abs are my
children. They want to play. The rain is my horrible and atrocious
diet. My abs want to come out and play,
but I keep dumping showers of pizza, burgers, and candy bars on their
parade. I’m a rain storm pouring on my
own parade. Such is life.
So it’s time to step up my game. Last year I had a female to keep me on track
with my biking and swimming and a friend that happened to be a female (and her
awesome running friends, aka my friends) to keep me on track with running. This year I need to stick hard to my own
flight plan. I need to be better at the
diet part of training. I need to log
30-50 miles a week and boost that to here and there 70’s closer to race
season. I have a plan. I may post it eventually just to give an insider’s
view to the experience. I have a
calendar… with dates… distances… And I
plan to somewhat stick to it. One day a
week is dedicated to long runs on pavement and another day each week is
dedicated to 10+ miles of trail running.
My wiggle room is that I can substitute distance on trail for time at a
mile to ten minute ratio: a planned 12 miles run can be settled for 2 hours
because trail running can be a different beast.
I need to log between an hour to two hours running before meeting up
with my (extremely awesome and just all out incredible ladies I run with) group
on Saturday mornings. Because that’s my
favorite run of the week. And if I can
dedicate the distance before meeting up with them I can for sure finish with
them.
I’m going to run a marathon in July and shoot for a Boston
time. Mixing two trainings is probably
not a common plan, but I’m going to shoot for the moon. Yep.
I bought a vest. It
holds a 2 liter bladder and two water bottles.
It’s pretty great. I have several
pairs of new shoes. I’m going to spend
the time over the next months narrowing down which shoes I want to race in and
what food I want to carry. It’s a new
adventure and I’m going to discover the nooks and crannies of the adventure.
I have a job that really works great with my crazy
races. A normal work week leaves me with
a three day weekend. I can do two long
runs a week with a day’s active recovery in between. Really, everything in life is in a great spot
for tackling adventures head on. I’m
looking forward to exploring this new whacky world. My blog may get updates here and there, but
really it’s hard to gauge where the interest lies without feedback. I’m just going to run a bunch, haha.
That’s it. That’s my rambling. Hope it was enjoyable.
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