Tea Biscuits, Cheese, and Ultra-Marathons
One Day at a Time
My mother stocked up on groceries. We now have canned vegetables, canned pasta, canned tomato sauce, pasta, rice, flour, and tea biscuits (Tea Biscuits!?) to last us until the year 2013. Should be enough to get us through the apocalypse, or whatever, 2012, you know, that Mayan calendar thing. If she was going to be stocking up on stuff, I wish she would have remembered one thing (which she apparently forgot). Cheese. We have enough food to make it until 2013 (and the food is dated until then as well, I checked, LOL), but no cheese? Out of cheese? That’s just not going to fly, man. I could live off of cheese. Real cheese, not the low fat garbage, not the "cheese product" garbage. Real, genuine. aged cheese.
Kroger had a sale, apparently. On everything . . . except cheese.
The number of entries per month (or any period, for that matter) in my diary is on course to decline, as of late, since I haven’t been running or working out. No running entries, obviously.
My legs are probably shriveling from atrophy. My heart is growing so weak it will be prone to palpitations. The blood in my veins must be turning the consistency of jelly. Gross. But my throat is still sore, my ears are full of pressure, but don’t get me wrong, I am feeling better all the time, it’s just that it’s slow progress. No need to rush this thing. What will be will be. And it WILL be good again, I have no doubt. My running days are not over.
The great thing about the two weeks I finished of that training plan was that it gave me a schedule. I never planned a set race. The main point was to have something to follow so that I could improve with time. This plan was good in its basic form, as it had short runs, long runs, a dedicated specialty run (hill/strength/speed), as well as regular rest days. How was I to know I would get sick? But it’s OK, those two weeks weren’t meaningless at all. I do think that when I feel 100% again, I’m going to think about doing one of two things: 1) actually doing the pretraining portion of the workout this time, giving me more time to get comfortable with the base weekly mileage, or 2) do a 10K training plan before I jump into a half marathon training plan. And nothing is set in stone. I mean that’s not to say that if I find a race I won’t join, but I mean the main things are to have fun and be healthy. I’m not going to push myself so hard that I "lose it", at least with speed or specialty workouts. I can’t say I won’t push myself on distance (in the long run, no pun intended, lol) as that’s always my number one goal . . . I’d like to run and never stop running, if I could. I’d like to run 100 miles. Ultra-marathon, baby! Ha.
-AR