26.2

Things to think about while I run:

1. Easier than coal mining or a textile mill.
2. Glacier moraines.
3. The forest.
4. My cats.
5. The horses I used to ride. Every ride had negative splits.
6. My goats.
7. All the animals I've known.
8. Not eating them.
9. Title IX.
10. The chasquis.
11. Conjugation charts.
12. Refranes: Al mal paso, date prisa. Al mal tiempo, buena cara. Al que madruga, Dios lo ayuda.
13. My work.
14. All the time I had to train.
15. Bread and roses.
16. Ancestors and antepasados.
17. Making spaghetti in the woods.
18. Fair Haven
19. Running as a little kid.
20. Tag, freeze tag, and best of all TV tag.
21. The first day going barefoot in the spring.
22. Snow.
23. Going to Alaska someday.
24. Having a house with a yard someday.
25. Having a child someday.
26. Not all pain is significant.
.2--having run a marathon.

10 things

I want to do after the marathon is over:

1. go hiking
2. go ice-skating
3. sleep in
4. go out late
5. see a play
6. go to a museum
7. not wash running clothes every day
8. go for beers with coworkers on Friday afternoon
9. not care about the weather forecast
10. go to the dentist

OK, the last one isn't so much one I'm looking forward, but kind of sums up how the intensity of training has eaten into my life, much as I've tried to contain it. The rest are pretty easy. We've even got theater tickets for the Friday after. Now I just have to run this sucker.

good run

The Queen Mary Two was leaving the harbor, making the Verrazano look like a toy bridge. Its little helicopter companion flew out in front, and the odd blimp that's been over-head on every run floated above it. The sun was setting, the water was choppy and dark, and there were navy storm clouds, but it didn't storm.
Everything felt good. The tail wind heading out was so strong I felt pushed, but when I turned around, the head wind just made it better to breathe. Oh, my foot hurt, but something's gotta feel wrong a week before a marathon.

silk (vegan) yogurt=sick belly

Add to the things not to eat before or during a long run list.

gotta have priorities

Got a cold, and I didn't go to work today. I'm not going to the party my colleague is having after. But I'm going for my run, and I'm happy about it.



Renee is making me watermelon sorbet! I feel better!

Tired legs

But not mine. The ones on my 15 year old students who moaned and groaned when I gave them an activity that had them walk around.

22 miles! or, "I want my soup!"

It felt really good. I feel ready. And I understand the guy from Running on the Sun a little better now. Every runner obsesses about something. For me, right now, soup.