Deliciously Disjointed

I plan for this blog to be very disjointed. You have been forewarned.

A week from today, as I write this, I’ll be running the Boston Marathon. I’ve been pretty relaxed about the whole thing (I keep telling myself “you’ve got some important training in between now and then” and “there’s so much still to do—work, packing, etc.--in between now and then”), but with only a week to go, am finding it progressively harder to remain so. BOSTON OR BUST!

And in case you didn’t believe my tale of increased excitement, no one in an unexcited state would write-up a meal plan, through Friday morning, for the week (click on the image below to expand it):



Let it be known that I’m fairly certain I will “ruin” all this healthy eating once I’m left to my own devices in the big city, but hey...a few days are better than nothing!

My pup Calli suffered an occurrence of what they call “old dog” vestibular disease (which would be like a severe inner ear infection in humans—up is down, left is right…and stairs are level with the rest of the floor) on Friday evening. I’ll spare you the gory details (bloody walls, gator-rolling and crazy, bugged-out, strafing eyes), but suffice to say, I thought I’d be running Boston in remembrance of her. But after a 48-hour stay at the emergency vet, I was able to take my still-wobbly pup home. She’s a very bruised, seemingly very drunk 9-year old dog…but she’s my very bruised, seemingly very drunk 9-year old dog. And Boston will be run in honor, not remembrance, of her—Calli didn’t give up, and neither will I!

Miles tally since last we “spoke”:

Monday: 5.05 miles in 37:28 (7:25 pace)
Tuesday: 4.62 miles in 31:32. 1.55-mile warm-up in 11:57 and a 1.71-mile cool-down in 13:22, with 8 x hill (0.17-mile), including 3 downhill, in between. My hill splits were: #1--0:53, #2--0:51, #3--0:41--downhill), #4--0:49, #5--0:42 (downhill), $6--0:48, #7--0:41 (downhill), #8--0:48.
Wednesday: 5.01 miles in 35:28 (7:05 pace)
Thursday: 6.1-mile tempo run in 44:18 (7:16 pace)
Friday: REST
Saturday: 5.9 miles total. Ran a 0.95-mile warm-up (7:48) and cool-down (7:33) with 4 miles at race pace (6:34 per) in between
Sunday: 7 mile run (48:31; 6:56 pace) + 3 mile fast bike ride

Weekly Total: 33.68 miles

Lastly, I submitted my entry into my first-ever Ultra Marathon last Friday--The Bethel Hill Moonlight Boogie (http://www.theboogieraces.com/BOOGIEINFOPAGE.html). Both the regular (26.2 miles) and ultra (50 miles, in this case) varietals are offered on this hilly stretch of road, and I’ll be participating in the latter. Join me on Saturday, June 12 at 6:00 PM EST in Ellerbe, NC (just over 4 hours away from Savannah) if you’re interested. More about this race in the coming weeks.



(I’ll get a post-sickness picture posted yet this week).