i run because i hate myself

[seventhe]

Last night I ran 4.5 miles. Without stopping. That's 45 min of straight running. At ~6.0mph. That's a personal record for distance.

And I did it instead of going out to the bar.

Days like this I confuse myself.

Anyway, \o/ ! Go me.

The rest of this post is attn: jennyclarinet, hilldo, and I guess any other runners:

1) I saw a bunch of shirtless Cavs players on the news this morning and thought of you. (For others: Jenny and I spent a good amount of time once at a J-Squad party googling "Wally Szczerbiak shirtless" and "LeBron James penis".)

2) The Akron Marathon. Saturday, September 26th. There are a few options we could do: marathon (hell no), half marathon (also probably a hell no), or a Team Relay, which sounds the most interesting to me.

The Team Relay needs 5 runners. Each runner runs a small section of the marathon, and then passes off a snap bracelet to the next runner. Each section is a different length, so you can have people of all different levels running together:

First	3.5 mi
Second	5.7 mi
Third	6.3 mi
Fourth	3.1 mi
Fifth	7.6 mi

We'd have until September, so whoever decided to pick up the longer legs of the run would have plenty of time to train. Plus, with me, Jeff, James, and Jenny running, we will need one more person... September is plenty of time to train for the shortest leg, that being 3.1mi. The Couch-To-5K program would do that in plenty of time. (That is, unless we get Melissa to run that long leg for us; then we're golden. Haha.)

Now for the bad news. First of all, we'd have to be there at 7am on a Saturday. Blech. Second, registration is $36 per person. Now, most 5Ks cost money to register; it looks like $20-$40 online depending on the race. But still, that's money we'd have to pay for the race. Akron Marathon is a non-profit organization, and their charity benefits "local fitness" from what I can tell; not a bad thing, but I'd hoped to pick a race that targeted a more specific charity. (Of course, Jeff's response is "Look up the course and we can run it together for free on our own day." Umm...kind of defeats the point.)

The other bad thing is that we'd all be running separately, instead of being able to run together and pace each other. However, the plus side of that is that we could say the J-Squad ran a marathon. XD

We have until August to register, so there's plenty of time to think about it... what do you guys think?

Comments

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

It's a shame we can't do a triathlon relay... I was a distance swimmer in high school!!

Anyway, I really think it sounds neat, and I'd definitely volunteer for one of the longer legs just to see whether or not I could do it. Jeff is interested but he is a little less enthusiastic than I am... he doesn't want to stop focusing on his weight training.

There's a group from work that does this race every year; they just do it for fun, not to place, which is totally fine by me. I'd just like to say the J-Squad ran a marathon together -- I think that'd be so awesome. especially because we are like the kings and queens of drunken shenanigans... we'd finally be doing something that's good for us.

[jennyclarinet.livejournal.com]

Yeah, and honestly, the drunken shenanigans are getting old...or maybe I am!

Except of course the disappearing into a private place and taking super secret photos! :) Which someone needs to post on our super secret community.

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

Haha, I know! I was just thinking about that yesterday. I haven't loaded any of the photos from that party onto my computer yet!