Marathon
On December 10, 2006, i will be endeavoring to complete possibly the most arduous physical experience i will have ever endured to date…
My wanna-be marathon career has been a long and meandering one.
Back in October of 1999, i joined a Marathon club with the aspiration to run the Los Angeles Marathon in the spring of 2000. After two weeks, i quickly realized that it barely fit in my already hectic schedule. Disappointed but realistic, i gave up the endeavor, telling myself “i give up for now“.
Then, in the summer of 2002, i got the idea into my head to run. It was a very hard, strange time for me and i was whacked out on all kinds of BP medications. This was clearly a grandiose plan, for hindsight is 20/20 (whereas my regular eyesight is horrendously near-sighted in a nearly legally-blind way, literally). This plan failed miserably. Did i mention i was also working the graveyard shift four nights a week at a Denny’s 35 miles away and eating fried mozzarella every night? Doomed from conception, i tell you, doomed.
Then, during October or November of last year, i ambitiously decided to try my hand at training for the Los Angeles Marathon once more. i trained diligently and actually finished my first race, the annual Santa Monica Christmas Run 10k with a semi-respectable for a beginner (can you tell i’m stretching here?) 44:07. i was proud of myself, but surprisingly unsatisfied. i wanted a marathon. i even registered for the Catalina Half-Marathon held in March 2006, but due to illness, went but couldn’t run. This bummed me out entirely. But i committed to running and decided to make it official, so i even went so far as to pay the $90 to register for the Las Vegas Marathon. Now i’ve committed my money, so now i HAVE to train, right?
Apparently, not so much.
This spring, i took on another ambitious endeavor, my very own business… Present Yourself. i am so proud of my little business and of all the work i have done for it. i’m evening hoping that by years’ end i’ll turn a profit!
Then in June we moved some 15 miles due to a condo conversion. “Stressed out” became a popular phrase in our household
Now that we’re settled in, everything from my freaky schedule to the possible search for a new serving position to the 90*+ and 50% humidity heat wave has been an excuse to laze about. i’ve been, shall we say lax? However, i took advantage of my day off and decided to map out routes to run for all my mile runs (i do timed runs and then mileage runs).
My plan is ambitious. i have 17 weeks to train from a twice-a-week runner to a marathoner. i will be starting have started another blog (Mercurial Runner) solely for that purpose, but i can guarantee that my whining will bleed into this blog as well. 
You have been forewarned.
By the by, check out my friend Bil’s Xanga and Myspace websites to donate for his AIDS Marathon run. A good man running for a good cause, so support him!
