Sunday, October 25, 2009
Water...
Hydration: I'm one of those guys who always knows if he is having problems with hydration...okay, there are people who admit they aren't totally sure about their hydration level and those who lie about it and now you know which group I hang with. On my long run yesterday--Saturday-- it felt reasonably cool but very humid. I drank water at the house along with my coffee and took along one water bottle for my 11 mile run. At the 5.5 mile turn around it hit me out of the blue..no way was I making it back to the house without a ride or more water. I start walking through one of the apartment complexes near the Greenway looking for a water tap but all were inside the fenced back yards--along with some mean ass dogs. Finely ran it to a nice guy at a church who gave me two bottles of cold water and I gave him the only dollar I had on me for the collection plate. I needed both those bottles to get me home. Moral of the story; you need to have twice the water you think you need or away to pick up more on the run and one buck ain't going to buy much without divine intervention.I signed up for the Myrtle Beach Marathon in mid-February. My original goal was to do a marathon or longer in January so this gives me another month of training and a couple weeks to tapper. I'm going to need this time and hope it is enough. I was on a schedule to do a 20 mile run on January 2nd but seem to be stuck trying to get over an 11 mile long run. Looking back I should have had taken an easy week to get refocused and rested. That's the problem, once you get going on a running program the hardest thing--and the most important thing--is to schedule some easy weeks. Maybe I can do it this week by getting my over all mileage below 20 and do about a 7 mile long run? Then next week jump up to 12 or 13 miles for the long run. We'll see.
I hit 219 pounds this week which is about 12-15 pounds less than a few months ago. Yes, I had to take off all my clothes to do it. My goal is still 210. Been eating a lots of fresh fruit and vegetables and staying away from cheese and deserts.
On another subject we had a family visit this week from New Orleans and Montgomery. If you leave out conversations about politics and religion then your discussions tend to revolve around what's been going on in your life. After awhile, I noticed a lot of the stories being recycled. And recycled. And recycled. Then it came to me..when nothing or maybe the same things keep happening in your life ALL you have is the same old recycled stories. Bye the way, have I told you the one about Jack and the backhoe? Well...blah, blah, blah and then we laughed.
