Played kickball with work folks after an all-day off-site. No, it didn't qualify as exercise, but I'm starting to feel lame about my lack of workouts/posts since the Burlington marathon. The kickball was a blast, and I highly recommend it. I worked up a sweat, but that was only because I played in jeans on a day that was 90 degrees with 90% humidity. Luckily, we had some beers on ice to cool down. Forget the Gatorade, this is kickball.
We all got word that we were rejected from the NYC Marathon today, which was a total bummer. It turns out I was really looking forward to doing the race. I'm even considering doing it for a charity because I'm...um... so committed to...causes and stuff. I'll keep you posted on that.
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Kickball
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Yeah . . . rejection . . .
I'm not doing it via a charity . . . I can't handle the fundraising, training, parenthood and FT gig.
The chicago marathon is a wide open all runner welcome but the registration is closed this year.
I'm in for Falmouth on 8/12, so that will have to suffice for this year.
Sorry about the registration. Plenty of 10ks in the area. Nice on the marathon. I might be in on the Brentwood to the Beach Run. Maybe any interest?
Sorry about the registration. Plenty of 10ks in the area. Nice on the marathon. I might be in on the Brentwood to the Beach Run. Maybe any interest?
Hey, Falmouth is a 7 miler in August. Ten thousand runners with a herd of elite world class runners who cover the course around 30 minutes and then the rest of us. It's a ton of fun. This will be my fourth year in a row. They give you a coffee mug as your schwag. I'm gunning for a full set of 12. Haha. Eight to go after this year.
That damned Reach the Beach keeps coming up again and again. It's thoroughly intriguing. It's a serious damn commitment . . . VTR has brought up on these pages before . . . with the exception of VTR, who is really in shape to run that thing in 12 weeks?
Personally, I think we work towards RTB 2008 -- train for a year. Go together to NH/VT and run some hills, run parts of the course. Figure out how to train together and run in the middle of the night. I'm for it, but we'd have to work out a training schedule that gets us working together.
It can't be a bunch of solo dudes training alone. This blog is good, we can do some long runs solo, and do the weekday stuff solo, but we need to plan on doing hill runs together and night runs together otherwise, I think it will get totally overwhelming and be no fun.
I need a serious training commitment to be fun. I'm honestly still trying to recover from solo marathon training nearly three years later -- my running has never really recovered from that, and I don't want to mess up my running again by shooting for something big, but going it alone.
Just my 2 cents.
I'm intrigued by the idea, but more interested in the marathon training at this point. I had the opposite experience that Agricola had in training for my first marathon -- lots of people at work doing the race, various running partners, etc. After years of not really running, I'm finally into it again, and searching for my next race. Until I run out of steam on the marathon front, the beach relay is on the back burner for me.
Speaking of marathons, I'm seriously considering the Cape Cod Marathon on October 28. I've heard it's a tough but good one. Tough for the hills on the last half. Good for all the community support, scenery and spirit around the race. I haven't signed up yet, but like I said, I'm very close. Wife might also sign up and run half as a team. I'll keep you posted... and you guys do the same if there's interest.
Sure wish I had proof read that last post. Email and blogs are destroying my ability to write coherently. Thank goodness I don't text. I'd be illiterate.
CC marathon is tough.
Phat and I and some others did the relay that's a part of that race. I might consider the CC 'thon . . .
Let me think about it.
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