This microphone smells like pastrami.

This blog is not as glamorous as I’d imagined.

I thought I’d be quitting my job by now and becoming a full time blogger. Runner’s World still hasn’t called to offer me a spot on their staff. As far as I know, the movie about my journey to blog superstardom isn’t in the works yet. Maybe the movie producers are just waiting for some more material. I can swing that.
If you’re listening producers, let’s talk about who will play me. I’d love to get Matt Damon. He’s intense, yet soft and sensitive all at once. But if we’re talking looks, I’m obviously more of a Ben Afflek. And I’ve been told I look like James Van Der Beek, so he’s a possibility as well, if he’s available.

Anywho… let’s talk running.

As if I needed another off week, I’m sick again. I had what I thought was a sinus infection or strep throat a week and a half ago. Regrettably I didn’t finish off the antibiotics, and I think whatever it was came back with a vengeance. Fever of 101-102 Monday night, headaches, body aches, weakness, congestion, and sore throat. I’ve gone back to the antibiotics and I plan to take them until they run out this time. With frequent Tylenol and Nyquil last night, I’m at 65-70% right now.

My next big race is the Columbus ½ Marathon on October 17th. That’s plenty of time to go out and run a ½ marathon; I’ve already got the endurance to run the distance. But to get myself prepped for a PR, I’ve got some work to do.

I haven’t been doing much speed work this summer and my only races have been a couple 5k’s in Loveland. My times for those were 24:13 and 24:10; they were at 6:30 in the evening and both in 90+ temps and lots of humidity. Very tough conditions so I’m okay with those times. But I haven’t run any longer races. All my long runs have been at a very easy pace, so I’m not sure what to expect as I approach my next ½ marathon.
Due to all the traveling and being sick twice now, I’ve got to really focus during September if I want to finish in under 1:50. (My first and only ½ marathon so far was the Cincinnati Flying Pig; finished in 1:53:05)

My goal of 1:50 is very attainable, considering the Columbus race is a much faster course than the Pig, and I should be more experienced by then. But I trained so much better during the winter than I have during this summer. I find it so much easier to run longer, faster, and more frequently in the winter. That is why I am tentatively planning to attempt my first full marathon in the spring.

To wrap things up here, I’ll put a question out to my millions and millions of readers: Who could play me (besides Damon, Afflek, or Van Der Beek) in “Imma Go Run” the movie?