{"id":313,"date":"2009-05-31T16:12:29","date_gmt":"2009-05-31T23:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/?p=313"},"modified":"2009-05-31T16:12:29","modified_gmt":"2009-05-31T23:12:29","slug":"ive-created-a-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/?p=313","title":{"rendered":"I’ve created a monster"},"content":{"rendered":"

I must apologize — it appears this blog is turning into simply an account of my race reports.\u00a0 I’ve had lots of ideas for posts, but no motivation to actually write them.\u00a0 Mea culpa.<\/p>\n

However, this coming week I have no excuse.\u00a0 You see, I really should NOT be running for the next five days (at least not far).\u00a0 As you can see by my updated race list\/countdown timer, I’ve got one Mother of a marathon month ahead of me: five, yes, FIVE freakin’ marathons in the next four weeks.\u00a0 Heaven help me!<\/p>\n

As with most of my race plans, my “monster month” started innocently enough.\u00a0 Last August my darling and I jumped at the chance for half-price entry into the inaugural Seattle Rock ‘n Roll Marathon to be held June 27.\u00a0 Early this year I decided I’d like to try a “double,” which in Maniac-speak means running two marathons in two days.\u00a0 The Lake Youngs Ultra\/Light at the End of the Tunnel Marathon looked appealing;\u00a0 although technically an ultra, Lake Youngs is a 9.6-mile loop run three times for a total of 28.8 miles (a “mini” ultra, if you will).\u00a0 I figured the Tunnel Marathon, which is an all-downhill race, wouldn’t be too terribly challenging the next day (although it was held in August last year, they moved it to June for 2009).<\/p>\n

I then couldn’t pass up the Green River Marathon; after all, it’s free!\u00a0 I had run the half two years ago<\/a>, but skipped it last year since it was the day before North Olympic, where I had hoped to BQ.\u00a0 When I mentioned my plan to another Maniac, he asked, “Why not do a double-double?” (Maniac-speak for doubles on back-to-back weekends).\u00a0 For some reason I decided that would be a good idea and once again signed us up for North Olympic (I had considered the San Juan Marathon, but not only is it quite hilly, I wasn’t sure I’d be able to catch the ferry in time after running Green River).<\/p>\n

Once I committed myself my anxiety started to grow, especially with every ache and pain I felt.\u00a0 Will my body hold up?\u00a0 Will I forever destroy myself for running?\u00a0 Will people think I’m cool, or simply idiotic?\u00a0 Why do I care what people think?\u00a0 Is my long-standing need to be liked rearing its ugly head?\u00a0 Does my butt look big in these pants?<\/p>\n

Wait — where was I?<\/p>\n

I wish I could say I’ve been diligent with my core-building exercises in order to fully prepare myself for the rigors to come, but I have been somewhat of a slacker.\u00a0 Scratch that — now’s not the time for negative self talk.\u00a0 Yes, I could have been better with the exercises, but I’m no slacker.\u00a0 After all, I’ve run four marathons in the past two months and my body is holding up fine.\u00a0 I’ve prepared it for running when it’s tired; I ran a little over 13 miles the day before the Capital City Marathon, and went on a 10-mile run today after running 13 miles yesterday.\u00a0 I also ran 8 miles in Colorado Springs last weekend at elevations ranging from 6300 to 7500 feet.\u00a0 Finally, I’m going to do something I haven’t done in a while:\u00a0 taper!<\/p>\n

My schedule calls for 12 easy miles this week (a 6-miler and two 3-milers), but I’m going to play it by ear.\u00a0 I really want my legs to be fresh.\u00a0 I will drag my butt into yoga and my Wednesday stretch class, but I doubt I’ll be doing many core exercises other than ab work and a few planks (whenever I do lunges, squats and wall-sits my quads are sore for a couple of days).<\/p>\n

The final component is nutrition.\u00a0 I’m going to try to lay off the hooch for a week and will eat lots of veggies, lean protein and whole grains.\u00a0 (My Maniac friends who have run doubles stress the importance of eating a LOT in between marathons.\u00a0 Now’s not the time to restrict calories).<\/p>\n

It’s going to be one hell of a crazy ride, but I’m looking forward to it.\u00a0 I WILL post more frequently in the coming month, as well as provide quick updates on Facebook.\u00a0 I hope you’ll stop in periodically to offer support!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I must apologize — it appears this blog is turning into simply an account of my race reports.\u00a0 I’ve had lots of ideas for posts, but no motivation to actually write them.\u00a0 Mea culpa. However, this coming week I have no excuse.\u00a0 You see, I really should NOT be running for the next five days […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[107,108,106],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-monster-month","tag-5-marathons-in-a-month","tag-marathon-craziness","tag-monster-month"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315,"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions\/315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}