I know that I haven’t written anything in awhile, but I do have many excuses. I just won’t share those with you.
Other than house hunting and doing my training runs, nothing much else is new. It seems like my marathon, The OBX is such a long way off, that I haven’t been too serious in my training yet. I’ve been putting in the miles, but I haven’t been able to actually “get into it” if you know what I mean. Does anyone else ever get that way, and what do you do to get yourself out of that funk? I think what I need is to actually do a race, whether it’s a 5K, 10K, or a half and I’m leaning towards doing a half for sure. So it looks like I will do the Georgetown to Idaho Springs half marathon on August 9th. I did it last year with a sore calf, and ended up really hurting it and not being able to run for 2 weeks. It’s a nice little half marathon though, although they don’t serve real beer at the finish. Last year they had some non alcoholic beer to drink. What’s the point of that? However, you can always walk about a block away to a great micro brewery called Tommy Knocker Brewery. Make sure to get the sampler which will give you a taste of all their beers. I like The Pick Axe Ale myself.
I was diagnosed with MS about 4 years ago and I am one of the lucky ones. I don't have too many problems associated with it, and the disease has actually slowed down. I took up running 3 years ago just to see if I could do it. So far I've run 3 marathons in a year and a half.
July 11th, 2008 at 12:04 am
Hi Dave,
Nice to see you posting again. I always enjoy reading your blog! Your comment about the beer cracked me up! Non-alcoholic beer just doesn’t taste the same, I don’t care what anyone says.
Those people obviously aren’t REAL beer drinkers! Hahahahaha.
I have to agree with you regarding your solution to your recent training funk. Also, sometimes I find a bit of hiking or other sorts of cross-training to be a big mental boost. Or even a brief respite from running altogether might do the trick. Maybe those suggestions would work for you as well?! You know what they say about variety being the spice of life, etc., etc.
Sometimes training can just be…. dull, monotonous, & aimless, especially without different activities & smaller goals along the way to motivate!
Or maybe you just need to find races that serve good beer at the finish line.
-C
July 19th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
Man I know what you mean about getting into a training funk, seems like it happens to us all. I think the best way to get out of one is to run in a shorter race, say a 5k or 10k. A pre-race race might just be the ticket.