February 2010
138 posts
“In our darkest hour, in my deepest despair, will you still care? Will you be...”
– Michael Jackson (Dangerous) (via justbesplendid)
Intermediate program...?
First of all, I would like to thank good friends, the grad lounge, and Ingrid Michaelson for getting me through today.
As for today’s run…done. However. This was supposed to be a pace run. I kept pace for 4 miles, but was pretty expletive tired for the last mile. I guess this is my first real hard weekend in terms of running (since a couple years ago), and those 8 miles yesterday...
January 2010
9 posts
My new tumblelog...?
I have decided to nix my previous tumblelog, visionaryrabbit. I loved that blog, but I concluded in my slightly inebriated state late last night that the only way I can stop obsessing over this is to cut all ties with my antagonist. So I did.
The realization that this is over hit me hard last night. I was proud of how strong I had been, but around 7pm, when I was alone with my memories and empty...
le sigh
I digressed a couple steps in training this week. I should be on week 3, but now I’m back to week 1. Which is quite alright, actually. 18 weeks from Saturday is Marathon Day. So, technically, I’m right on track.
Running has been tough this week, and my 8 miles on Saturday is daunting. I feel incredibly pudgy, and want more than anything to be a size 4 again. This consumes me. It will...
Running...and other things...
So…about that marathon training…
Who’dve thought that running a marathon would be the easiest thing I’m working towards lately.
I completed my eight miles on Saturday morning, in Rochester, and then almost finished a 5 miles pace on Sunday.
Great. Swell. I am doing this as a personal goal, and it shouldn’t matter that no one seems to give a darn or congratulate me...
First mid-week long run
Five miles today. This seems like nothing in the grand scheme, but during Week One it’s enough. The sorta long run, or the mid-week long Wednesday run starts at five miles and increases to 7 or 8, max. It’s surrounded by two shorter runs on Tuesday and Thursday, 3 miles each in Week One.
I opted to do today’s 5 on the treadmill for several reasons. (a) I hate running in Ithaca...
Day 1 and 2
I’ve done this before. Sort of. A few years ago I ran two half marathons (13.1 miles) in Detroit and Rochester about a month apart from each other. I trained alone all summer in Harrison Twp., MI, when I was home for summer break (when I used to want to go home for summer break). The trail I trained on was a paved path leading to a beach, a park and a beach, actually, on Lake St. Clair.Lake...