Backstory and Weekend Plans

Training – Hawaiian Style

I am on pace to put in 30 miles this week which isn’t a bad start. Last week I was very ill and I have been trying to get over a nasty ankle sprain. To recap, about four weeks ago I was out with KP and Crosley, we ended up in Adams Morgan somehow. We were bar hopping and the female member of our party needed to use the facilities. I found a porta-john in a back alley and decided to be cute and run over and bang on the door while she was in there. Well, I take off, step on a brick lying in tall grass and went down harder than a cheerleader on prom night. We’re not talking mere suckage here, we’re talking full blown snowballing. Basically, I destroyed my ankle and wasn’t able to run at all for several weeks. In fact, the trail I set with Jess was the first time I ran in a while and then I ran again at the SH*T AGM. Then I caught a cold. Luckily I had a pre-base before the injuries and the illnesses.

Haystack Dictionary Entry #5

snowballing – n. when a girl or guy gives head to a guy then comes back up and kisses him and spits the cum in the persons mouth.

Anyways, I guess what I’m trying to say is, 30 miles on my first week back isn’t so bad. Next week I bump up the mileage a bit, do my first “long run” and start to incorporate speed drills, weight training and core exercises. I am doing a build up to December 3 where I will run a time trial half marathon (Gar Williams Half Marathon sponsored by the DC roadrunners). At that time I will set my marathon goals in stone. I will refrain from posting my goal time for the marathon because I do not want to defend it against those who thinks 1) I shouldn’t even have a goal time for my first marathon and 2) that the goal time is too ambitious to begin with. The half on the 3rd will justify my goals (if not I will readjust).

But enough about running. This weekend I am planning to go on a hiking excursion through the jungles of Kauai. This is the island they filmed Jurassic Park on. I can’t wait to see the dinosaurs! On Sunday I am going to go surfing and body boarding. On the north shore of the island is where that teenage surfer Bethany Hamilton got her arm bite off by that shark a year ago. I will not be surfing on the north shore, them local surf rats scare me.