Thousand Miles to Salamanca

Do I Still Run?

So it may seem like my zest for putting one foot in front of the other quickly and writing about it has died. Certainly the writing about it part has significantly decreased. To be honest it isn't quite, or hasn't been quite, as magical as it once was. But I do still run and I intend to run more, but life seems to've been getting in the way.

Between work and remodeling a house, there's not much room for running, or writing. In fact, getting things dry-cleaned, grocery shopping, cleaning, and just keeping up with the tedium seem to be a luxury. How do people do this? How do people do this with children? They must not waste a millisecond.

Although I'm not quite where I should be on the running scene, I'm happy with what I've been doing with my time. But after stepping on a scale, and after the last few runs, I believe it's high time to start getting back in shape. I didn't get way off. I felt very good in December of this year. I got sick in January due to some Cluster Headaches.

The headaches finally stopped with about three weeks to go before the Austin Marathon. So I said what the hell and signed up for it. Then I pounded out a 59 and 55 mile week respectively, and hit something like 16 the week of the marathon. I didn't end up being in December shape, but I did have a relatively enjoyable marathon of 3:32 or something like that. I didn't wear my watch and liked it. Heck, even finished it saying to myself: "I'll probably do another one."

I guess I'd like to be in shape for some fast races, but I'm not going to make any promises anytime soon. Right now I'm just trying to string together some six run weeks. Matter of fact, tonight, I ran for about 20 minutes with my cell phone in hand. My sister was coming over and I knew I wouldn't have time to get a run in. So I just ran around the neighborhood, weaving through streets, and when she called I came home. That way I was able to put together a string of four days in a row with a run. It may've been only two miles or less, but a run nonetheless. Four days, one week. It's been a while.

Who knows, I may do this sort of thing again. Maybe I need to start a new thousand miles. Would be pretty cool if I did it in 20 weeks. That'd be 20 fifty mile weeks in a row. I might be in good shape then. Maybe.

posted by Gray @ 9:09 PM