About five or six years ago I foolhardily registered for a half-marathon in St. Louis. When I showed up on race-day, after not having trained at all (literally not even a single practice run), I dropped down to the 5k (and ended up walking for a good half-mile of it). I did not run another official race for years.
About five or six fortnights ago (antiquated time measurement used here for parallelism's sake), I registered for a half marathon in San Francisco. I showed up on race-day after having spent the previous two weekends skiing and having not run more than 9 consecutive miles in my life. I was a little nervous that I'd have to give up a few miles before the end of the race and sadly gorge myself on swag mini-Clif Bars and Pop Chips in remorse. But somehow I actually made it through to the end! And Kate was waiting there with a bottle of water and (unfortunately for my sweat-drenched self), an iPhone camera.
My knees today feel like someone hit them with a hammer.
This doesn't have much to do with running, but I was kidding myself when I started a running-centric blog. This is a list of things I need/want to buy soon:
New running shorts/socks/shoes
Heart-rate monitor
Small blank notebook
Global GS-38 paring knife
AA batteries
That self-titled college-era Glands CD
January MUNI pass
Collection of Icelandic sagas
It's about time I checked in on this blog. We're 13 days into December and I am doing surprisingly well keeping up with my 62 mile goal. I'm at 22 now, just 4 off the 2 mile-per-day pace. I think I'm going to register for a half-marathon in February, which is most likely a bad idea.
Also I made some new foods tonight with Kate: turnips, kale, and radicchio. Two out of three turned out super-awesome. And the bonus tried-and-true bay-leaf infused rice was also delicious.
Be warned: this blog is a boring blog.
No updates yet, but I will point you to my failed fitness blog from last winter: AHOOKPFT and the current prj page, which is more directly related: Ahook, Run Redux.
Thanks.
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