Thursday, July 29, 2010

Running is Bad for Me? WRONG-- Resting is Bad for Me!!!

Not too many updates lately because there haven't been too many races lately. These are my 2 non-marathon weekends and it's not easy! Last weekend was nice to stay in town and see friends, but now I'm getting a little antsy.

I'm often lectured on how "bad" it must be for me to be doing so many marathons in 1 year. The most recent gripe being from a trainer at the gym who told me I am "too skinny" and no longer had muscle-- that my arm was a "bone with a hump on it." Silly people-- if you only knew. Races keep me busy and keep me from getting hurt either physically or financially!

Case 1) When I don't race I have pent up energy. What do I do with said energy? A lot of grocery shopping (slash eating)-- and when I was at the grocery store this week I managed to drop a can of veggies from my cart RIGHT onto my pointer toes. I thought for sure it had broken and immediately started thinking of ways to cut the front of my sneakers so I could still run if the toes had to be put in a splint or something. Fortunately it was just a bad bruise and it bled a little-- but really, can you make my toes any uglier than they are already?? No sir!

No worries- I've already run on it. It was uncomfortable, but nothing I couldn't "tune out."

Case 2) My name is Stephanie and I'm a race-a-holic. When I'm not racing, all I'm thinking about is the next race, and how very far away it is. I have a spreadsheet of my marathons (yep grade A dork here!) and I probably look at it (no joke) 20-30 times a day. So what do I do? I sign up for MORE marathons. And lately they've been in states I've already completed!!! My last race was what?... 1 week ago. Since then I've signed up for...

MT- HURL 50K
MN- Walker/North Country Races
CT- Bimbler's Bluff 50K
and I've committed to...
NC- Thunder Road Marathon and possibly...
WV- Marshall University Marathon or IN Veterans Marathon.

All of those and all the travel gets to be Mucho $$... mucho not cool! What am I made of money?? No Sir! I'm mad of sugar and spice and everything BadA$$!

Sigh-- so nothing too wonderful to report. I'm going on a 13 mile run tonight just to exhaust myself a little. Speedwork tomorrow then another non-marathon weekend ahead. :( Next Race? The H.U.R.L 50K in middle of nowhere Montana! I'll be the first person from OH to ever run that race... cool, huh?

Happy Running... and if you're racing I DON'T want to hear about it, and no I don't care how childish that sounds! :(
Stephanie
"Run to Win" -Meb

10 comments:

  1. Get this bada$$ some races please! I think you're the bomb!

    ReplyDelete
  2. awesome post. You're awesome!

    ReplyDelete
  3. I totally understand. The time between races that is all I am doing... researching races and booking travel. I'm pretty much booked for the next year.

    You're awesome!!

    ReplyDelete
  4. Hi Steph, you motivate me everytime I read your blog. Good luck in HURL!

    Hill aka 'I do it for the ice cream' :)

    ReplyDelete
  5. Love the post. Of all the things you could be addicted to...

    ReplyDelete
  6. Just for your information, you would love the Veteran's Marathon in Indiana - the first half is OK, but the second half is all rolling hills. It's a small race, but fun (I ran it last year, which was its first year) and the jacket you get for participating is pretty cool.

    ReplyDelete
  7. I think this is a pretty good addiction. :)

    ReplyDelete
  8. There are a lot worse things you can do in your spare time besides signing up for 50k's.

    ReplyDelete
  9. But resting is training and not always bad!.
    And running marathons is no problems, i like that to!.
    You can ultrarunning like the 50km,60km,100km ore 6 houre,12 houre ore 24 houre run!.

    I hope to do the 100miles beach run in Holland(dutch)it is the larges beach run off the world, but you must run faster than 9;30 houre on the 100km ore 200km on the 24 houre run!.
    And thats to fast for me!!!.

    Have a nice run time.

    Rinus.
    www.rinusrunning.nl

    ReplyDelete