now what?

I’m a little lost in these post-marathon days. I’ve had this goal for a long time and now it’s over. I’m not quite sure what to do with myself.


So, what have I been up to?

Volleyball
I’ve been asked to be an alternate for a co-worker’s volleyball team. Apparently every now and then someone can’t make it to the game so they needed an alternate…which will be me. The thing is I may have ever so slightly exaggerated my volleyball skills to my co-worker when he asked, and by exaggerate I mean that I told him I could play when in fact I have no idea if I can. And I might have left out the tiny detail that I’ve never played volleyball sober. All minor details. How hard can it be, it’s not like they’re pros. If I can play three sheets to the wind it should be a breeze sober, right?


Another Scene
Managed to make a scene at the store trying to get a 12-pack of Sam Adams Winter Classic Variety Pack out of the cooler. In all fairness it was wedged in there and even the guy who eventually helped me (after watching me put my leg up on the shelf for leverage and yanking the 12-pack repeatedly) had trouble getting it out of the cooler. I fear footage of my beer escapade will end up on the internets, but in all honesty if that’s the only beer related video of me that shows up on the internets, I’ll be lucky.


Two words: entitlement eating
Yep, still eating like I’m training. Guess I should start training again so I can maintain my current level of eating.


Contemplating
Contemplating just how intimate two people who run together become. I may have taken my relationship to the next level with my running partner. After the marathon I drank a lot of Gatorade and a lot of water. No big deal, we assumed we would be stopping a lot on the way home. What we did not plan for was getting stuck in traffic for an hour on the way out of the city. No woods, just concrete. No place to pull off the road. Nowhere. I had no choice. It was an urgent situation.

I had to pee in a water bottle. In the car. With quivering thighs. Thighs that had just hours before carried me 26.2 miles. You want to talk about skills? I know a thing or two about skills. That’s all I’m sayin’.


Wanting More
Entered the lottery for the 2010 NYC Marathon. If I don’t get in (and I don’t expect to) I’m going to do another one around the same time of year. I’m hooked. I miss training. I’m going to try to maintain the level that I’m at, but not sure if that’s possible over these winter months.

It took a lot of pain, sweat, and tears to get to this point and I’ll be damned if I’m just going to let it go. I’m joining a gym today and am going to try to run a few times a week before work and then do a long run (10-20 miles) on the weekend a few times a month.