My taper is quickly becoming a cliff dive. I just cannot get it up.
I have a list of things I want to do post-marathon, most of which I've planned/arranged: get a big haircut (6+ inches), start guitar lessons, go to evening yoga again, take Kappy for a hike, go out to eat with my H, etc etc etc.
It's tough to dedicate to the marathon if your heart isn't really in it. I had that issue last year.
My week is crap. My allergies are kicking my butt and I haven't worked out since Monday because of them. I may not today, either. And I won't even be able to redeem myself because we'll be gone this weekend (we'll, I could, but I'm not THAT dedicated). And on top of that yesterday my neck/upper back decided it wanted to be all tight and wonky so sleep last night didn't go well either.
Totally random package in the mail for me yesterday turned out to be this very cool book sculpture made by a runner I befriended during the 12 hour race I did this summer. She was an awesome mentor as I trained for Can lakes with tons of my crazy questions. It's going right next to my medal! eta:Holy huge pic- damn app....
My taper is quickly becoming a cliff dive. I just cannot get it up.
I have a list of things I want to do post-marathon, most of which I've planned/arranged: get a big haircut (6+ inches), start guitar lessons, go to evening yoga again, take Kappy for a hike, go out to eat with my H, etc etc etc.
I just need to let out a giant yawwwwwwwppppp.
I'm excited for you to get to work on your post-race list. It's awesome to be able to do other things after a period of such intense focus and time dedication. I'm really enjoying my morning dog walks and making dinners, and all that little stuff I normally take for granted. You're so close!
My taper is quickly becoming a cliff dive. I just cannot get it up.
I have a list of things I want to do post-marathon, most of which I've planned/arranged: get a big haircut (6+ inches), start guitar lessons, go to evening yoga again, take Kappy for a hike, go out to eat with my H, etc etc etc.
I just need to let out a giant yawwwwwwwppppp.
I'm excited for you to get to work on your post-race list. It's awesome to be able to do other things after a period of such intense focus and time dedication. I'm really enjoying my morning dog walks and making dinners, and all that little stuff I normally take for granted. You're so close!
Intellectually, I know that I'm so close. But emotionally, 2.5 weeks is so far away.
I'm excited for you to get to work on your post-race list. It's awesome to be able to do other things after a period of such intense focus and time dedication. I'm really enjoying my morning dog walks and making dinners, and all that little stuff I normally take for granted. You're so close!
Intellectually, I know that I'm so close. But emotionally, 2.5 weeks is so far away.
I need something to make my life feel sparkly. I’m in a work hole, which does not feel stressful but is constant constant constant. I miss working out, but i’m tired and lack motivation. And I feel like I spend most of the day praying “Lord help me not be a raging bitch to this dumbass who is wasting my time.”
I’ve only got about two more weeks until something will give, but I hate feeling like this.
settle in for the random running story of the day:
Decided to do a new to me loop by my office yesterday. It wasn't long as I am still easing back in to running. 2.5 miles. I went on map my run and google earth to satellite it to make sure it looked legit. I saw that there was about 10 feet of trail and the rest was all roads. I took off and I was pumped.
Ran the first .55 miles and the road ends and turns into a trail. This is basically between two large condo units. I get to the trail and...there is a 5 foot gate and fence topped with wire. It runs into the woods and I do not see any way around it.
I think, I can either turn around and do a different run (but damnit, no, I planned for THIS run!), turn around and just go back (meaning the run would only be a mile), or scale the fence. "I'm a bad ass athletic warrior princess" I thought to myself. "Plus, all the runners I know would not let a stupid fence deter them! ONWARD I SAY" and I started to scale the fence. About 2 seconds into I realize I made a mistake, but I am a stubborn son of a bitch, so I kept going. A crowd of kids gathered. I needed to make it over the fence to show them that nothing will stop me from exercising!
Except as I go to leap off the top, the seat of my pants got stuck on the barbed wire. So for a single second I dangled there, at the top of the fence, by my ass. Then the pants ripped and I fell right down onto my face. So now I have a GAPING hole in the butt of my pants and I still have to run 2 miles, through neighborhoods, back to my car.
Uh. Please don't go into fenced areas? Work is dealing with a bicyclist who went into a fenced area (with warning signs) and fell into a hole. Last year we had a lady who got her running stroller stuck in cement because she went into a fenced area. You're lucky you just ended up with ripped pants.
My back is feeling better after spending a day stuffed to the gills with muscle relaxants.
Uh. Please don't go into fenced areas? Work is dealing with a bicyclist who went into a fenced area (with warning signs) and fell into a hole. Last year we had a lady who got her running stroller stuck in cement because she went into a fenced area. You're lucky you just ended up with ripped pants.
My back is feeling better after spending a day stuffed to the gills with muscle relaxants.
oh, sorry that was not clear of me. It was not like a fenced off area. It was a path separating two condo units and they don't want people driving through the two. So there was a gate with a fence over it.
If it was a fenced off area I would not have gone in at all.
Uh. Please don't go into fenced areas? Work is dealing with a bicyclist who went into a fenced area (with warning signs) and fell into a hole. Last year we had a lady who got her running stroller stuck in cement because she went into a fenced area. You're lucky you just ended up with ripped pants.
My back is feeling better after spending a day stuffed to the gills with muscle relaxants.
oh, sorry that was not clear of me. It was not like a fenced off area. It was a path separating two condo units and they don't want people driving through the two. So there was a gate with a fence over it.
If it was a fenced off area I would not have gone in at all.
I don't want to beleaguer the point, but if they were fine with peds going through the fence wouldn't have been 5 ft. high with barbed wire over the top. They would have put in bollards and called it a day.
pixy0stix, I realize that. I did actually ask someone who lives in the condo complex after my graceful fall why there was fence there and they said the two condo complexes used to be one so there was a path between them. There was a business partner rift and they split the condos in two. People were driving between the two of the complexes and getting confused so they put up a fence. Until recently they had a giant cut out in the fence as a walkway through but that is gone now.
In hindsight I shouldn't have done it, but it just seemed easier to me at the time.
scm1011, I did! I just kept pulling my shirt down and trying my best to adjust the hole to be as small as possible (lololol). I took a picture when I got home but I don't think I want to post it on here haha.
moreace01, I KEEP COMING AND DOING THAT TOO!! I refresh like 30 times a day to see if @vtcupcake ktzmoh or emilyj have posted yet.
My random is I keep coming back here looking for IMLou race reports. I realize recovery is important but I'm super impatient and still excited.
I wrote part of my recap on my plane rides home. Holy crap all the ironman feels are so real and I emoted 3 years of alternating self doubt and self love all over top of the minutia of race and gear details. It was like 6 pages long. LMAO! I need to edit myself a bit. but I hope to post my recap today or tomorrow.
My random is I keep coming back here looking for IMLou race reports. I realize recovery is important but I'm super impatient and still excited.
I wrote part of my recap on my plane rides home. Holy crap all the ironman feels are so real and I emoted 3 years of alternating self doubt and self love all over top of the minutia of race and gear details. It was like 6 pages long. LMAO! I need to edit myself a bit. but I hope to post my recap today or tomorrow.
My random is I keep coming back here looking for IMLou race reports. I realize recovery is important but I'm super impatient and still excited.
I wrote part of my recap on my plane rides home. Holy crap all the ironman feels are so real and I emoted 3 years of alternating self doubt and self love all over top of the minutia of race and gear details. It was like 6 pages long. LMAO! I need to edit myself a bit. but I hope to post my recap today or tomorrow.
I forgot in my frozen haze that on Tuesday I got a bike trailer for DD for $30 from the neighbor of a cycling friend. I can't wait to load her up in it and cruise the greenway with her.
I just wrote out some loose goals through the end of the year, and filled in a very tentative race calendar, and now I'm emotional. It's been awhile.
Details, woman!
Lol, sorry! Boulder 70.3 will be my A this year again (Aug), and leading up I have 2 1/2 marathons that I'd like to do (of 4 options) between March-June, and then there's a tri series leading up to the 70.3 that I'd like to do, and a metric century that starts right by my house. I think it will all lead up well to Boulder and will help remind me that I'm capable along the way. And then, if life allows, maybe a fall full marathon and Ironman Boulder the following June. Long way out there, though.
I committed to a half next year with a friend who loves to run but has never run a half. I think I might start running big races again next year but not for PRs. I miss it.
Lol, sorry! Boulder 70.3 will be my A this year again (Aug), and leading up I have 2 1/2 marathons that I'd like to do (of 4 options) between March-June, and then there's a tri series leading up to the 70.3 that I'd like to do, and a metric century that starts right by my house. I think it will all lead up well to Boulder and will help remind me that I'm capable along the way. And then, if life allows, maybe a fall full marathon and Ironman Boulder the following June. Long way out there, though.
I've also started roughly sketching out the next year. I'm not committed to anything yet though. I think I'm going to focus on 5ks, even though I hate them with the fire of 1000 suns. Lol
ETA: edited because the sun is not possessing anything in this sentence.
Lol, sorry! Boulder 70.3 will be my A this year again (Aug), and leading up I have 2 1/2 marathons that I'd like to do (of 4 options) between March-June, and then there's a tri series leading up to the 70.3 that I'd like to do, and a metric century that starts right by my house. I think it will all lead up well to Boulder and will help remind me that I'm capable along the way. And then, if life allows, maybe a fall full marathon and Ironman Boulder the following June. Long way out there, though.
I've also started roughly sketching out the next year. I'm not committed to anything yet though. I think I'm going to focus on 5ks, even though I hate them with the fire of 1000 sun's. Lol
I like that plan. You are braver than I am. I need to be sure to take some time to focus on 5ks and get faster, too, but, ouch.
Post by whiteorchid on Oct 19, 2017 16:12:09 GMT -5
My training has been so amazing lately that I'm almost afraid to talk about it. I feel like I've only made minor changes, but I guess those minor changes have added up to something huge! This past week I've broken 1k, 1 mile and 10k records on training runs without much effort. It's mind boggling! I have slowly upped my mileage and added some form stuff into my daily routine. I've also been doing my long runs at a nice slow pace. I'm so excited!
Post by hurricanedrunk on Oct 19, 2017 16:56:38 GMT -5
I need to reign in my post marathon eating. It's my H's birthday today so I was at the bakery and got 3 cupcakes and one piece of cheese cake. I promptly ate one cupcake for lunch so we each will have one cupcake and a cheesecake to share. He doesn't need to know about that extra cupcake that I wolfed down.
I too have started looking at 2018.... no solid plans except a charity bike ride.
Post by mrs.jacinthe on Oct 19, 2017 17:35:58 GMT -5
I was *there* and I'm getting blue balls over these race reports. I feel like
But I know I need to be more like
I have not swum this week. Couldn't find enough pool time. My choices were: 1 hour swim (not worth it, IMO) in a cool-water pool or 2-hour swim in a warm-water pool (BLECH). So I went with no swim. LOL. I'll swim in the Chesapeake Bay on Saturday so it'll be all good.