28 August 2008

This is really happening

I smell lovely. And by lovely, I mean sweaty.

I just returned from my third run in the past three days. Today's was a medium-paced three miles. Yesterday's clocked in at about 6 miles and Tuesday's was something like 5. The earlier two were at a much slower pace, primarily because it was much hotter than necessary and, uh, I had not been running in forever. And I should probably also mention something that I discovered post-run on Tuesday: registration for the 2009 Boston Marathon is next Wednesday.

That snuck up on me.

It's been my plan for a long time to participate in the marathon and I decided this past spring that next spring would be my year. So I ran a lot while I was in Paris to try to keep my endurance up then returned to Boston, where I completely stopped running. Tuesday's weather was phenomenal and I had lots of spare time, so I took to the streets. I was appalled by how out of shape I was. Appalled. Then I remembered how I was going to run the marathon next year and took a quick spin on the internet. So, uh, next Wednesday.

I recruited my BFFL Cait to run with me. And that was that.

Well, not quite. We have some important decisions to make within the next week or so. Obviously neither of us has ever run a marathon before so qualifying at this point is out of the question. This means that we have to raise some serious funds for a charity. There are 18 different charities to choose from, so we're going to apply to a handful. I made some phone calls yesterday, printed out some applications and await to hear some results. In the meantime, we're getting our train on. Yesterday, Cait looked up a variety of training schedules and we're planning to combine two. I've also given up some nastier habits, aka drinking alcohol, soda, etc. We're both running according to schedule - I need to take a day off tomorrow, Cait took today off. And we hope to cross train pretty intensively. We both bike to work on the daily. Additionally, we'll add some swimming, basketball (or just "shooting hoops" as we discussed yesterday) and weight lifting. Work it.

This is going to be interesting.

1 comment:

Claire said...

yay! you guys are totally insane as all marathoners have to be. i'm so excited for you!