Help Me Figure Out What's Next...
This entry was posted on 4/24/2007 9:50 AM and is filed under uncategorized.
Believe it or not I don’t think that my body was
designed to run marathons...
I think somebody put it best that I was moving at a glacial pace. To be honest, I clearly could have walked a faster marathon but it was the principle of the thing and I wanted to run/jog as much as humanly possible.
Its been a
week since the race and I am still paying the price.
At first I just had total muscular pain, like I had been hit by a
truck and the driver backed over me to make sure that the job was done. This pain has gotten better by the day,
revealing some underlying joint issues.
I appreciate that plenty of people told me that this was going to happen
and that I should be careful. So, I
won’t complain about it to you. I've hopped back on the bike for a few hours here and there.
I needed
the 3 month window, and I needed to do the marathon. However, now I need to find something new to train for. I do not think it would be a very good idea
to train and run another marathon, at least not yet.
The prospect of being in a wheelchair at 30 over something so
preventable is not so appealing right now. I may change my stance on that but for right now -- no wheelchairs (I know, I know. I'm getting soft).
But there
is really something to this 3-4 month window of training. Its just short enough that I won’t get bored or burned out. It's great to set a huge goal, get out of your comfort zone and "x" off the days on your calendar. The timeline is short enough that it is tangible and very much within reach.
So, I’m looking for my next event and I need you're help...
I'm looking for something that isn’t running-related and occurs
sometime between mid-August and mid-September.
** Maybe a 100-200 mile endurance biking event,
** 3-5 mile swim (maybe 1.5 from alcatraz),
** Or something completely offbeat (like training to become a cage fighter or swimming with giant sea turtles).Now while I'm clearly THE authority on elite endurance events (joke), I'm not sure what's next. I just know I need something to keep me going. There's an AMAZING difference when you have a goal to shoot for on a certain date versus just training for yourself.
I’m not saying I’ll never run a marathon
again. After all, I need to give some people material to b*tch about around the watercooler. That said, I never saw the quote unquote "runner's high" so much as the "runner's croquet needles being jabbed into every major muscle group and tendon high".
I just need something different
for the next 3-4 months.
I will be at
home in the great north woods of Wisconsin.
Where the men are men and so are the women (joke).
I throw myself at the mercy of the court for suggestions. Do your best/worst and fire away...
P.S. location doesn't matter as long as it isn't in Indo-China or something like that. I'll definately be going the charity route again.
Where would you like the event to be? Wisconsin? Mass? I think that would help get viable suggestions.
