The Road to Recovery
After three days of recovery post-marathon, I hit the road again last Thursday evening with an easy three mile run around the neighborhood. This exercise served as a tremendous challenge as the lingering effects of the race continued to hamper my movement to a brisk shuffle at best, either walking or running. After yesterday's seven miler, I think I'm finally getting my body back in order and ready for the next challenge. However, I can't seem to stop eating. The candy present in our house is just too tempting. I need to find a more adequate motivator to persuade me to forgo candy in lieu of something healthy. After seeing the marathon photos from the race, I know I need to work on my legs, and fight more vigilantly against the evil cottage cheese. Aside from running goals, I am now dedicating myself to fighting the cheese.
As for the next running goals, I'm planning to hook up with my old running buddy to do the Sunset Stampede (www.sunsetstampede.com) in Asheville, North Carolina. This race is a challenging 10-miler, which has about three miles positively straight up, followed by a brisk three miles down. The race rewards runners with nice post-race festivities including food and music. Like last year, they promise Jared from the Subway commercials. I missed Jared's appearance last year; I don't want to miss him this year. Ideally, I'd like to hit this race in around 1:28 as a time goal.
Later this year I'll join 54,999 of my closest running buddies in the Peachtree Road Race (www.atlantatrackclub.org). This race is the largest 10K in the world. Time goals are out for this race because it's so enormous.
I'm searching for a good base building schedule for marathon preparation to begin in July. There are so many "schedules" out there for the actual marathon, but no one seems to plan exactly base building. My plan is to mold my own schedule and put it in writing. I do much better with my running when I have a plan, posted prominently on the refrigerator, where I can check off the days. My new goal is to tackle Chickamauga in November again. This year the race falls on my birthday which will make it extra special. New marathon time goal: 3:49:30. Aggressive.
My non-running related item for this entry relates to my recent experience in my professional life reviewing proposals by companies trying to obtain positions on a job. While I majored in my native language in college, I'm certainly no grammarian. However, I am amazed by the lack of comprehension on basic English skills on a formal professional document. I have inherited certain language pet peeves from the influence of teachers. In tenth grade, our English teacher told us never to use the word "kids" when referring to children, because "kids" are baby goats. I don't use "kids" much simply because of Mr. Meehan's pedagogy. As an adult my major grammar pet peeve, inherited or simply earned, is the frequent misuse of "its," and "it's." For folks who don't know, "it's" is not possessive; rather it stands for "it is." "Its" is the possessive form of the word (the dog chases its tail). Admittedly, it's confusing. I saw a new permutation of this confusion with someone using "its'" as a possessive. I'm not perfect, but I think Americans in general have a problem with the whole possessive thing - perhaps because we want to possess everything.
As for the next running goals, I'm planning to hook up with my old running buddy to do the Sunset Stampede (www.sunsetstampede.com) in Asheville, North Carolina. This race is a challenging 10-miler, which has about three miles positively straight up, followed by a brisk three miles down. The race rewards runners with nice post-race festivities including food and music. Like last year, they promise Jared from the Subway commercials. I missed Jared's appearance last year; I don't want to miss him this year. Ideally, I'd like to hit this race in around 1:28 as a time goal.
Later this year I'll join 54,999 of my closest running buddies in the Peachtree Road Race (www.atlantatrackclub.org). This race is the largest 10K in the world. Time goals are out for this race because it's so enormous.
I'm searching for a good base building schedule for marathon preparation to begin in July. There are so many "schedules" out there for the actual marathon, but no one seems to plan exactly base building. My plan is to mold my own schedule and put it in writing. I do much better with my running when I have a plan, posted prominently on the refrigerator, where I can check off the days. My new goal is to tackle Chickamauga in November again. This year the race falls on my birthday which will make it extra special. New marathon time goal: 3:49:30. Aggressive.
My non-running related item for this entry relates to my recent experience in my professional life reviewing proposals by companies trying to obtain positions on a job. While I majored in my native language in college, I'm certainly no grammarian. However, I am amazed by the lack of comprehension on basic English skills on a formal professional document. I have inherited certain language pet peeves from the influence of teachers. In tenth grade, our English teacher told us never to use the word "kids" when referring to children, because "kids" are baby goats. I don't use "kids" much simply because of Mr. Meehan's pedagogy. As an adult my major grammar pet peeve, inherited or simply earned, is the frequent misuse of "its," and "it's." For folks who don't know, "it's" is not possessive; rather it stands for "it is." "Its" is the possessive form of the word (the dog chases its tail). Admittedly, it's confusing. I saw a new permutation of this confusion with someone using "its'" as a possessive. I'm not perfect, but I think Americans in general have a problem with the whole possessive thing - perhaps because we want to possess everything.
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