Endurance

There are problems that come with sleeping in till one in the afternoon.

A: I am wide awake.
B: I haven't even been conscience for twelve hours today.
C: I feel like a bum.

These problems, especially number A, get magnified when I am in a bored-and-want-to-do-something-but-don't-feel-like-doing-anything mood. You know what I'm talking about? Right now I have so much energy, but it's late and I don't even know what I would do if I even had the drive to do something. So my fortune-telling skills tell me that my future has an extremely late night, an early morning, and a beast of a nap on the horizon.

I wasn't completely unproductive today. I went for a 2-mile run, and I felt like I went at a pretty good pace. I ran pretty quickly after I ate, so I got like four stitches in my body, one of which was in my back! Has that ever happened to you?? It's never happened to me before. So that was..different. But rumor has it that Abilene is hosting a full-out Marathon this fall. There's this insane thought in the back of my head. The very, very back. I'm a little nervous to listen to it, but it's telling me to run it. For the life of me, I have no idea why I would do that! I ran a half back in December, and I hated it! So a full Marathon is crazy-talk. I hated the half because both my hamstrings seized at mile 11 1/2, and I had to stop for several minutes and stretch and work them out before they would function again, and that ruined my pace and shot my pride because I couldn't say that I ran the whole way without stopping. But my muscles seizing was my own fault because I didn't hydrate and I didn't stretch well before the race. I guess I feel like I could be a lot smarter about it this time. 26 miles... that is a long ways. I would need to start training in a about a month for it. Go big or go home right?? The hardest thing about training is that it takes up SO MUCH time.. but if I ran a Marathon, that would be an awesome accomplishment, and I feel like I wouldn't ever have to do it again.

You know who is crazy though?? People who train for triathlons, especially for the IronMan. If you are unfamiliar with the IronMan, let me break it down for you: First you have to swim in an OCEAN for 2.4 miles. Then you have to drag your pruny body out and hop on a bike and peddle for 112 miles. I can't imagine the blisters you would get on your butt from sitting for that long, especially when your wet at first. It would be terrible! And then you hop off your bike and proceed to run a full Marathon. If your like me, your mind just exploded. I had to carb up just to type about it. I met a guy who completed a triathlon. I think he told me it took him 11 hours. Wow. I don't know if there's anything that I would want to do for eleven hours straight, let alone doing the most insane workout known to man.

Maybe I should just stick to my 2-miles-3-times-a-week workout....

Nate's out for tonight. Sleep well and GO TO CHURCH in the morning!

Ps. Did anyone catch the typo in the first big paragraph??