Marathon Training Post #1

This is my third blog post of the night. This is SO me. In college (STOP READING PARENTS), I typically didn't do anything for a semester, and then crammed all my studying into the week before finals. That would help to explain my poor grades throughout most of my scholastic career. Anyway, I'm hoping to make up for my pitiful blogosphere presence over the past few months by making tonight memorable.

So, without further delay, I will describe my run tonight (because I know you care)...

Tonight was an important run for many reasons:

1) I feel fat / disgusting / out of shape right now, and tonight marks the start of my return to the world of fitness. Up to October of 2009, I was logging a lot of mileage every week in preparation for the Baltimore Half-Marathon. And, once I crushed the Half-Marathon, like any champion, I promptly quit running.

Sidenote: Great champions like Michael Jordan also once quit the sports that they would eventually return to, and DOMINATE...

Sidenote Concession: Michael Jordan is the only athlete who I can think of that has successfully done this... But hell, it's an example I can follow!

Anyway, fast forward to now. In the past few months... okay... six months... I haven't really done much physical activity other than my kung-fu. That said, I'm putting FITNESS FIRST for the next several months and I'm going to regain my six pack (of cut abs... although beer is sounding good right now).

2) It was one of the rare times where I've run while really under the weather. I currently have the cold from hell.

3) It was the first time I've ever run while doped up on Sudafed.

4) While not only does it mark the first run in my return to fitn

ess, it also marks the first run in my Marine Corps Marathon training regimen!

So how did this important run go? Terribly! I didn't stop or anything, but I felt like I was going to throw up all over Friendship Heights (my neighborhood). AND, the Sudafed made my head feel like a balloon that was just tugging my body in all kinds of funny directions.

Sidenote: Did you ever notice how all cold medicines make the claim that they will NOT give you "Medicinehead?" They're all full of shit.

In spite of all the obstacles the cold and the Sudafed posed, I did in fact finish my 6.0 mile run. Did I feel like I could run another 20.2 at the end? NO FUCKING WAY. But is it October 31st yet? NO! I'm going to be soooooooo ready for this thing... Just wait...

I'm even looking at costumes... and I think we have a winner!