I apologize for not updating the blog yesterday. I was at the gym working on abs for my annual Ab-A-Thon event. Basically it raises money for fast runners in need and the contest measures how many crunches you can do in a 24-hour time period. Of course, i won the event with 23,304,230 repetitions, which was a course record. The only problem is that no one else had the guts to participate in this competition and there were no SLOW people there to cheer me on... I had paid a man named Libertine a few dollars to keep count for me.
Today I put in a 20-mile recovery run in the morning to get the legs fresh for tonight's super hard workout. The run was performed in 2:04 which age grades pretty decent, for a recovery run. Now i have been getting a bit of a sore throat lately, and am not sure i should continue my running as is or if i need to make an 8% downward adjustment towards my mileage over the next day and a half, which should put me back in God's healthy graces again.
Another activity i was thinking of doing is to replace some of my 10X2X5X4X10X5X56X4 runs with long-track speed skating so that i can hone my long distance anaerobic skills. I was watching the 1984 winter olympics on the tv and it was just so inspiring to see these people do 5ks in 7:00 and 10ks in 13 minutes. I feel that once i start doing that, those times will be easier for me to achieve with just running alone.
Final order of business is that there will be the first SLOW person Q & A session coming very shortly. Please make sure to either post a question on this entry or e-mail one to matt@jeromix.net. Now i am sure that most of the questions will deal with "why can't i be fast?" but i will do my best to help you out.
Olympic Marathon Qualifier Goal Time: 2:02:59
Olympic Marathon Gold Medal Goal Time: 2:00:00
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