Since I ran the Rochester Marathon in September, I haven’t really run that often. I’ve completely dropped the ball. And yes, I know that new year’s resolutions are lame and everybody makes them and never delivers. But, I’m making a new year’s resolution and I’m posting it in order to further encourage myself to meet my goal. My resolution is to run at least 800 miles this year. Probably a little too lofty of a goal considering that I’m going to be student teaching for the next five months, but I think I still might be able to do it. I’m not sure how many miles I logged last year because I didn’t keep a log, but I’d guess that I only ran somewhere around 400 miles because I only ran regularly and seriously for about four months of the whole year.
Tonight I ran my first two miles of 2008 in thirteen degree temperatures on snowy and icy sidewalks. Now, I only have 798 more miles to go. But, I have 363 more days to do it. It shouldn’t be a problem if I follow through on my prior goal of running two marathons this year. Two 26.2 mile races would put 52.4 miles on my log in only two days of work. I’m going to run the Rochester Marathon again in September, but I need another marathon to shoot for earlier in the year, hopefully sometime late spring or early summer. I was thinking about the Cleveland Marathon, since it’s in late May, but I just realized that my MAT graduation is on the same weekend. So, I guess I’m going to have to find another northeastern race around the same time.
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Courtney // January 3, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Cool. Runners are hot(t).
And disciplined. I recently worked with a guy, who at age 52 and while smoking 5 packs a day, would get up every morning and run 6 miles– rain o shine, and 10 on Sundays.
If that’s not inspiration for ya, I don’t know what is.
jillian // January 3, 2008 at 11:21 pm
April 21st, Boston Marathon..the best marathon there is. Do it, I will go cheer you on!
ajmorabito // January 4, 2008 at 3:25 am
Courtney, that sounds completely ridiculous and unbelievable. That guy must be a natural athlete.
Jillian, you have to qualify for the Boston Marathon. I ran the Rochester Marathon, which is a Boston Marathon qualifier, but, I missed the qualifying time for my age group, which is ridiculous: 3 hours 15 mins, I believe for under 29 years of age. I’m going to have to wait until I’m thirty years old and the qualifying time gets slower. Or maybe not. Who knows. I do want to run the Boston someday, though, definitely.
jillian // January 6, 2008 at 1:48 am
Just be one of those unregistered runners. There’s got to be a loop hole..some of my cousins have run it, and they are in good, but not great shape. I doubt they run faster than you.
amandayac // January 9, 2008 at 3:56 pm
You are quite the ambitious man, Andy! But if anyone could do this, stick to it, and still be fabulous, it would be you. The past few days have been gorgeous–hopefully you’ve had a chance to get some miles in before the weather turns to rubbish again.
sws2910 // January 10, 2008 at 2:04 pm
Awesome! Run as many miles as you can before you start having kids, then you will be up changing diapers at Six AM wondering what happened to your run time.