2/7/10 Running shoes, trashedHow NOT to run a road race:
1) Do virtually no running for about a year.
2) Do little to no other fitness activity for the same year.
3) Carbo-load. For a month. On casseroles made by your mother and sister.
4) Have a baby.
5) Get no more than four consecutive hours of sleep for three straight weeks.
6) Choose a 10-mile race, on Super Bowl Sunday, in twenty-degree weather.
7) Run your worst-time ever (1:27:07); finish with bloody foot.
8) Use it as an excuse to throw away your oldest running shoes.
9) Consider it a success.
1:27? You still beat me! Good for you!
ReplyDeleteKeeping the pace under 9 min/mile was a small victory, but it's not the kind of running I aspire to. Need to get back into it to see if I can recover a little of the 'speed' of my youth.
ReplyDeleteHey, on an unrelated note...when's the first day back to school?
ReplyDeleteCRM, paternity leave ends today. All good things must come to an end. However, I promise to be distracted and unproductive at work all week long.
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