Last Friday was the first time I ran home from work since becoming my sister's nanny in Seattle. It is considerably farther than Petsmart, being 17 miles from Renton but that is just an average run for me. I have averaged 18 miles a day for the past two months. I don't really think about how far this very often. It doesn't seem very far when you are running in circles, just seems like a hamster running on a wheel, but when I run home from Seattle? That is a long ways! But I do it every single day! really puts things in perspective.
Traffic is awful here. It took me 2 hours and 20 minutes to run home and it can take anywhere from 40 minutes to an hour to drive home. I don't know how people put up with this on a daily basis. They might call me crazy, and I am because I would rather run home than be stuck sitting in my little claustrophobic cage of a car not going anywhere, not even able to stretch a leg for who knows how long or what reason. At least when you are running there are no traffic jams. No one can tell you how fast you can go.
You know you are getting really crazy when your long run is only 3 hours and 30 minutes and this makes you excited because it is so short! Or when you only have to do 10 mile repeats instead of 15! When 20 miles is not even a long run- it is just average. And when your coach tells you to run a 100 mile week you feel like you have the week off! You look at your old running diaries and dumfounded by how little you ran when you ran 80 miles a week. And you worry about the half marathon you are going to do because you aren't in "sprinting" shape. Well that is me now- just escaped from loony bin. And I'll be back, no doubt!
Traffic is awful here. It took me 2 hours and 20 minutes to run home and it can take anywhere from 40 minutes to an hour to drive home. I don't know how people put up with this on a daily basis. They might call me crazy, and I am because I would rather run home than be stuck sitting in my little claustrophobic cage of a car not going anywhere, not even able to stretch a leg for who knows how long or what reason. At least when you are running there are no traffic jams. No one can tell you how fast you can go.
You know you are getting really crazy when your long run is only 3 hours and 30 minutes and this makes you excited because it is so short! Or when you only have to do 10 mile repeats instead of 15! When 20 miles is not even a long run- it is just average. And when your coach tells you to run a 100 mile week you feel like you have the week off! You look at your old running diaries and dumfounded by how little you ran when you ran 80 miles a week. And you worry about the half marathon you are going to do because you aren't in "sprinting" shape. Well that is me now- just escaped from loony bin. And I'll be back, no doubt!
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