So now that I have walked/runned my 10K, if I am to continue this putting one leg in front of the other at a marginally quick clip, I need to decide what my ultimate goal is. Here are five thoughts:
Advantages: Path goes within...oh, wait, I'm sorry. I forgot to put up the logo.
Ah. Much better. Anyway, advantages: Path comes within five miles of my house at its closest. 24-week training program exists, put on by the same fine folks who did my successful 10K program, and at the informational meeting I went to while picking up my 10K packets, I was told that about a third of those who were in the program finished the race in over five hours, which means that I will not be the only slow one.
Disadvantages: To finish the race before it officially closes at six hours (they continue clocking times for another hour or so, but the roads will be open to traffic), I'd need to keep up a 13:44/mile pace, which is virtually equivilant to the 13:38/mile pace that I had during the 10K, which I see as difficult to keep up over more than 40K.
Advantages: Doesn't close for seven hours, which means I'd need to keep up a 16:01/mile pace, and I could almost walk a 16:01/mile pace. Not too far from home; one night in a hotel would be the only extra expense. One of the fifteen or so largest marathons in the country, numberwise.
Disadvantages: No training program -- I mean, I could sign up for the Richmond training program and the Baltimore Marathon, I guess, but the cost of that program ($125, I believe) includes being signed up for the Richmond Marathon, and I am not going to do both, thank you kindly.
Advantages: It's Chicago! Certain in-laws and brothers and maybe even parents could see me fail. Largest marathon in the country, numberwise; it's even bigger than Boston (if only because one must qualify for Boston).
Disadvantages: Expensive -- not only the marathon itself ($80), but travel. No training program. Six-hour cutoff (or six-and-a-half, depending how you read it).
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Sitting on my butt on all these days.
Advantages: Easy!
Disadvantages: Does not help me to become my new svelte self.
oh so lovingly written by
Matthew |
i sincerely do not know what you are doing here. are you lost? were you
looking for your delicate calico cat, and did you follow her up two flights of stairs
to this room? she is not here. she was here, yes. we gave her a warm bowl of milk, we talked with her about campaign finance reform for a time, and then she bid us good day. i believe she was
going to the post office two blocks down, but i don't quite recall.
for surely you did
not find your way from prinsiana, the least traveled site on
the internet. if you did, though, perhaps you are looking for humor. perhaps you are looking for profundity. perhaps you are looking for answers.
i'm sorry, but you shall go naught-for-three.
