Crazy Thoughts

SF update: 25 days 16 hours and counting till I am off and running. (Schedule wave start time July 25th at 6:22am)

Well another weekend has come and gone. I am really looking forward to this coming weekend. Since our Independence Day is on a Sunday, the accounting world will take Monday off. Additionally, I will be taking Friday off so it's a four day weekend for me. Should be a lot of fun. Sunday I have a four mile race I'll be participating in, then Monday it's over to La Casa de Mama & Papa for some family, food and fun.

So last Sunday was another "long" run for me. I completed 11 miles in 2hours and 28 seconds, which is the pace I was going for. It was another 4am start to the run and I was looking forward to getting out of the house as I heard there was some kind of lunar eclipse. I didn't notice anything unusual about the moon at 4am but it was full, bright and quite lovely. In fact it was so full that I was a little nervous as a ran next to some orange orchards. The thought of a vampire or something jumping out to get me made me nervous. It is quite dark still at 4am (which is the point of running then, no sun equals less heat). Maybe that is why I was able to keep a good pace, the fear of vampires or serial killers kept me moving.

I did have a slight injury related incident in which I am a little embarrassed to blog about but let's just say I had a little Andy Bernard situation. For those of you who know the "Nard Dog" you will remember what happened to him when he ran the "Michael Scott's Dunder Mifflin, Scranton, Meredith Palmer celebrity rabies awareness fun run pro-am race for the cure". A similar situation, though less extensive occurred.

I don't know if the running and exercising is causing me to go slightly crazy but I am having some crazy thoughts. Though I thought that running a half-marathon would be the pinnacle for me, I have started having thoughts about running a marathon. In January there is the PF Chang's - Phoenix Marathon that I may just give a go. Then the thoughts even went crazier to attempting what is called the "California Dreaming" series. Which is a series of three marathons (SF, Long Beach, Surf City) that if done within a two year span, yields a nice jacket and a special medal. I better just take things one step at a time for now though. First comes the half-marathon then we will see where it goes.

I am really looking forward to SF in just a few weeks. It will be awesome to put all this training, hard work, and self-belief to the test. I just need to remember the words of Yoda... "Do or do not, there is no try". I will do this. Then we will see what I will do next.