Preparation H

On Sunday, May 24th I will be running a leg of the Buffalo Marathon. It’s a 4-person relay. Let’s meet team “He’s Touching Me” :

Lara

Kevin

Dan

Me

This will be Lara’s first running event. I believe this is also Dan’s first. Kevin has run the Buffalo Half before. This will be my third Buffalo run. I’m due to run a 20 miler that weekend, so I think I’ll run three legs and call that my 20. That’ll actually work out great. Lots of water, spectators, and free beer afterward.

Last weekend was the second annual Prep Ho Half Marathon. Bay Ridge to Park Slope and back. If you’d like to see it all in detail, it’s right here. Lara got me a Garmin 405 for my birthday. I’ve been using it for the past 7 weeks. It spits an incredible amound of info at you (speed, heart rate, elevation etc…). I could bore you to shit by posting my Garmin stats and charts of my heart rate, but I promise I won’t.

Anyway, incredibly nice weather. I overheard a couple of young kids as I was making my way around the north end of the park.

“This is like the perfect day,” one kid says.
“It’s not like the perfect day, it IS the perfect day!” says the other.

The compression shorts worked out well. The same company (Under Armour) also makes a compression shirt, but I’m not sure I’m ready for that yet. Little bit of pain in the right leg, but nowhere near as bad as it was. I’ve started to do my stretching after the beginning of my run. Typically I’ll run for 3 or 4 minutes, then stop and stretch. It’s a drag stretching outside. Inevitably it’s always cold, and inevitably my hand lands inches away from a pile of dog crap. I’ve had it happen twice now. You’d think I’d survey the area better before I make my stretching mini-camp. Betcha Jack LaLanne never has to worry about such foolishness.

Ten miler set for tomorrow. Then over to Mark and Sam’s house for Easter dinner. Lara made a cake tonight, and I ate a quarter of it.

Let me say that again; I ate a quarter of a two layer yellow cake. I may need to do 10+ tomorrow.