I woke up this morning feeling that A might be upset with me, and that might be why she’s acting kinda distant. So I went online and bought her a gift card to replace some stuff of hers that I sort of am responsible for the inadvertent destruction of.
As of this writing, she has not responded.
In athletic news, my marathon next weekend is going to be a big question mark.
First of all, I wasn’t expecting the world economy to catch fire and explode into a pile of smoking feces during my fund raising cycle, so I’m on the cusp of running a pretty expensive marathon because I’m on the hook via credit card for the full balance.
But hey, I signed up for it, I want to do it, and that’s that. I don’t think I will do it again, but I am glad I did.
Physically, the two times I have attempted 20 mile runs I have blown up around mile 16 or 17 and been in so much pain I couldn’t continue. I couldn’t even sit down, it hurt so bad. All I could do was basically writhe.
Laying on my back with my legs in the air when I finally got home helped.
Turns out your long runs are only supposed to be about 30-35% of your weekly mileage. I didn’t realize that, so I’d just been doing my regular weekly schedule of group rides and swims and runs thinking I was probably ok. I let my long run distance far outpace my weekly mileage and that’s why I can’t roll for the full 26.2 at a sub 4hr pace like I want to.
Lesson learned. I won’t make this mistake again.
Come race day I will be poking along and walking all the aid stations and hoping I make the finish line. It’ll be interesting to see if I make it, but I can’t really take an injury right now because I have a Half Ironman in May.
This morning I ran just over 5 miles (5.3) in about 45 minutes which is 8:20 or so pace, but there were also some stop lights and things I had to wait at and so forth.
After I ran I took a shower and shaved my legs. They are veiny like George Hincapie’s.
I took a nap, and worked on a pro bono site I am doing for the East Atlanta Kid’s Club. Then I worked for a few hours, ate some beefaroni, and got suited up to go to the Thursday Night Faster Mustache team training ride. According to CK, we put in a little over 30 miles at 17.2MPH avg and 2200 feet of climbing.
I was totally spent at the end just like last week. The guys on my team are fast. I was the slowest by far. I could keep up no problem until we started climbing, and then my power to weight ratio just ate me up. These guys all weigh probably 170 at the heaviest, so at just over 200lbs I am carrying 30lbs extra dude up those hills. Plus I’m not all that powerful, as my lactate tests this winter can attest.
It was some really good riding, though. I wish I were doing TT races all summer so I could keep training with those guys but once my marathon is over it’s going to be hardcore half ironman time. I’ll have to do all that training alone.
Which sucks.
But I picked this as a goal so I have to put in the time. Next year I can do TTs and short course tris all summer and I won’t have to train as hard.
After my ride I changed into a tee shirt and a pair of jeans and met Kate and Caren and Chad down at P’Cheen. I drank four cokes and ate a burger and every single fry that came with it. I was really hungry.
Kate kept stealing my fries. I told her “You don’t know how much I need this”. She wanted to sleep on my couch because she has a ghost in her apartment and a stalker cab driver. I said okay, but I think she changed her mind when I came home to go to sleep around 10:00 and she wanted to stay out.
My watch read 800 cals after my run this morning and around 2100 after the ride tonight, so that’s almost 3k cals in a day. I expect to drop 4k during my marathon.
I got some milk and a powerbar on the way home from eating the burger and drank the first while eating the other.
I am starving as I write this.
I need to swim tomorrow but the city pool is closed on fridays now. I might have to try to find somewhere else to swim. I gotta get at least three swims a week in.
Also, I’ve ordered ultegra 10speed shifters, chain, and cassette to go on my Specialized Allez so I can interchange my two road wheelsets between it and my crosscheck, which is my race bike during cross season and my training bike the rest of the time.
So I will be totally on Shimano 10 speed whenever that stuff comes in.
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