Things that might happen to you while training for your first marathon:
- You will cycle through periods of taking too much about running to being extremely, self-consciously closed mouthed about it. Like, to the point where people ask "Hey, are you still training?
- Hunger will become a constant and you'll give yourself license to eat more... and then get pissed that you haven't lost any weight.
- Your hair will begin to look like crap from constant washing and drying after workouts and from sun damage. Particularly if you have recently dyed your hair from black to blonde... ahem.
- You will actually blow out a pair of running shoes and a more experienced runner will be horrified that you have not yet purchased a new pair. You will immediately head to REI.
- Your morning routine suddenly revolves conspicuously around the bathroom. Enough said.
- People will ask you how you're doing and you will say "busy" in a harried, serious manner, and then be embarrassed because running four days a week, hiking 1-2 of those other days and only working four days a week sounds pretty darn luxurious to some people.
- Riding a bike up a steep hill suddenly becomes a lot easier - Your husband refers to you as "Quadzilla."
- Maybe you'll tailor that "Summer To-Do List" to something slightly more rational... or maybe you won't.
- Doing the dishes becomes a weekly, rather than a nightly, chore.
- You watch your husband leave for a bike ride all by his lonesome, because you HAVE TO RUN TODAY.
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