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Mostly About Running
Jan. 22nd, 2020 08:51 am For the past two years I've participated in the Gate River Run in Jacksonville, which is a nice run through some pretty neighborhoods and over the Hart Bridge. I like it but it has so many runners it's almost like a Disney run with how crowded the course can be. I'd already decided to skip this year - possibly in favor of the Hastings Spud Run 10k later on, and also to give Fox's foot a chance to heal. Basically I'd be looking at no racing until October. But I got an email from 1st Place Sports this morning saying Gate needed volunteers. So I did something a bit out of character and signed up to do either packet stuffing or one of the early days of packet pickup. I'm still not going to be running, but I've kind of thought about helping out with some races and I don't remember getting any emails about a lack of help for this particular run before.
I'm currently doing recovery runs - short, easy-paced runs to work the kinks and stiffness out without beating up my body. I'll then move into a "maintain fitness" running routine for a while, but then I'd need to decide how to approach summer and the months leading up to the Black Creek Bowl and Wine & Dine. And since I am curious about trying to run more than one marathon this coming winter, I have an idea.
Instead of training specifically for the Dopey Challenge, I'm going to train for an ultramarathon. I won't be doing all those miles at once, but if I train like I am, the idea is that I will be able to handle more races within a shorter period of time. Whereas before I was mainly training myself to simply finish Dopey, rather than perform well or take on extra distance. So I am seriously considering running the Jacksonville Marathon, which typically falls a weekend before runDisney. That takes my total mileage to 74.8. I think this is do-able with proper planning, so at some point this month or the next I need to sit down with a calendar and some training plans and figure out how I'm going to approach this.
In non-running news, back on New Year's Eve there was a shooting just up the road from me - about two miles as the crow flies. One woman was shot and killed, another man shot who later died in the hospital, and someone got pistol-whipped before having his truck stolen. This ended with a high-speed chase over in Bradford County. So we recently found out what set all this shit off and ... it was an argument over some borrowed clothing. I have no words for how incredibly stupid this is. I mean, getting into a fistfight in the first place over clothes, but then deciding to start shooting people. I'm sure they were very important clothes... (please imagine me saying that last sentence with all the possible sarcasm I can muster)
And we've had another freezing night, with possibly one more on the way - Bugpocalypse averted, I hope! But for now I don't want to do anything except sit next to the fireplace with the cats.
I'm currently doing recovery runs - short, easy-paced runs to work the kinks and stiffness out without beating up my body. I'll then move into a "maintain fitness" running routine for a while, but then I'd need to decide how to approach summer and the months leading up to the Black Creek Bowl and Wine & Dine. And since I am curious about trying to run more than one marathon this coming winter, I have an idea.
Instead of training specifically for the Dopey Challenge, I'm going to train for an ultramarathon. I won't be doing all those miles at once, but if I train like I am, the idea is that I will be able to handle more races within a shorter period of time. Whereas before I was mainly training myself to simply finish Dopey, rather than perform well or take on extra distance. So I am seriously considering running the Jacksonville Marathon, which typically falls a weekend before runDisney. That takes my total mileage to 74.8. I think this is do-able with proper planning, so at some point this month or the next I need to sit down with a calendar and some training plans and figure out how I'm going to approach this.
In non-running news, back on New Year's Eve there was a shooting just up the road from me - about two miles as the crow flies. One woman was shot and killed, another man shot who later died in the hospital, and someone got pistol-whipped before having his truck stolen. This ended with a high-speed chase over in Bradford County. So we recently found out what set all this shit off and ... it was an argument over some borrowed clothing. I have no words for how incredibly stupid this is. I mean, getting into a fistfight in the first place over clothes, but then deciding to start shooting people. I'm sure they were very important clothes... (please imagine me saying that last sentence with all the possible sarcasm I can muster)
And we've had another freezing night, with possibly one more on the way - Bugpocalypse averted, I hope! But for now I don't want to do anything except sit next to the fireplace with the cats.
