Filed under: Life — at 11:14 pm by jim

The Peachtree Road Race is exactly one week from today… for anyone not from Atlanta, this is the 10K that happens every year on July 4th.  As of three days ago, I didn’t expect to run in it.  I didn’t register, so I didn’t receive a number for the race.

Everything changed on Monday though, because one of my friends knew someone that had an available number.  So I accepted it, even though I haven’t gone running in over a month.  So at that point, I had 9 days to train.  I figured that I could do 3-mile runs every other day, and that would at least give my body a warning of what was to come.

So on Monday I did a 2-mile run… I felt horrendous afterwards.  It took me 20 minutes (10 min/mi), which isn’t too bad for my first run in over a month.  But tonight when I went running again, I was able to run three miles in only 28 minutes.  I felt like I was going to die at the end of it, but it was a pretty big accomplishment.

Hopefully my runs on Friday and Sunday will go pretty well… if I can run them in 28 minutes again, I’ll be pleased with that.  Then after Sunday, I’ll give my muscles a break until race day on Wednesday.

Oh, and on a related note… this is what I drank BEFORE running tonight:

It gave me a much-needed energy boost… and then this is what I drank AFTER running tonight:

Mmmmmm…. Fruity Pebbles beer.  I mean, Leinenkugel Sunset Wheat beer.  I found it at the Capital City Liquor Store right down the street from my condo.  You might think that I shouldn’t drink beer while training for the race… but I burned almost 500 calories today while running, so I think I deserve a couple of brewskis.