Running & Then Some....

So I’m coaching the Wednesday night downtown group.  All I can think about is after this weekend (technically, Saturday), I am going on the wagon until the NYC Marathon.  Depending on how well I run at the NYC Half Marathon on August 16, I may get a one day furlough (it’s up to my coach), although once I’m on a roll, I may just continue to stay alcohol free like I did last year.

Anyway, I’m preoccupied with these thoughts and I’ll tell ya’, we have some tough runners uptown on Tuesday and Thursday nights…however last night at the Wednesday downtown session I witnessed a guy…I won’t use his name, probably because I can’t remember his name.  Keep in mind I take these meds for migraines and they totally mess with remembering things such as names, what you ate last night, what your workout was….all short term stuff….anyway this guy attempts to do a continuous tempo run and he’s looking good…actually better than usual.  All of a sudden, the wheels came off….okay “dude” (I don’t know his name) “what’s going on??”  Apparently this guy got totally hammered at lunch on margaritas that he felt like Superman and then within 10 minutes of the 20 minute tempo run, felt like driving the “porcelain bus.”  I will give him credit.  He came out and attempted it.  He “sucked it up (including the alcohol) and toughed it out!  How ’bout that Tuesday and Thursday nighters?  You’re gonna have to carry a keg with you on the next workout to top that one.

I’m sure next week when I am detoxing, I’ll be ready to crawl into Michael Jackson’s hyperbaric chamber.  Don’t worry…I’ll make sure to relocate the little boys….but seriously, I am sure I will want to rest and get my self together for the push over these next 4 months.  The workouts are going to get tougher with the mileage heading into the 70’s, maybe even 80 per week.

The stress from this divorce has me ready to tell anyone who is thinking of getting married to really think it over.  I’m barely thinking today.  I couldn’t do my tempo run this morning as I was too busy letting my internal anger get the best of me.  I don’t show it as I have the most precious daughter.  Thus, I internalize it and today it got the best of me.  I hope to get the tempo run in tomorrow, but I can already see how this domestic BS is twisting my training.  Can you imagine gutting out and designing the interior of an apartment, complete with hidden wiring for high speed internet, cable, surround sound in the walls…and now the person who has never used it wants to take it from you?  You get it??

So, hopefully tomorrow will be my tempo run (I guarantee it will be).  I will run 25 minutes at 6 minute pace.  I will nail it and I will take another step towards the marathon and towards cleaning the excess baggage out of my life.

See you on the roads…

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