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Originally posted by the kenyan:
believe it or not folks, i'm actually running again, not just jawing off on online forums and playing poker. This is about my half dozenth (thats a word right?) comeback attempt, so we'll see how long it really lasts. My main immediate motivation, of course, being to make a run at my highly beatable marathon PR (3:28)....and hopefully drop another few toenails in the process. Given the vast amount of time i spent being a couch potato and working on my keg, and the magnitude of fitness I lost as a result, this will take at least a year's worth of consistent training to work.....but it's doable. I would estimate my 100% max potential, max effort, max favorable circumstances performance to be somewhere in the low 2:50s, but that would be a few years away IF i can somehow keep myself consistently fit for that long. As far as time goals go, the one I really want to hit is <3:11 for the BQ. Right now I'm still at the point where i'm thrilled about being able to complete 30 minutes.......compared to my ultimate peak when anything under 60 felt short. It's all about the baby steps. At least I'm only 22, so I have a lot of peak time to ride things out......and 8 years to have enough endurance to crawl my way through 100.2 miles in <30:00:00.
I trust everyone else is tapering already?
haha, your story sounds like mine. except I haven't actually gotten back into it unless you count running all over campus to get to classes on time.
i am approaching my 50th attempt as a comeback runner.
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some quotes worth putting up:
"I aint scared of al Quaida, I'm scared of al cracka" - Chris Rock
If you're working at Wal-mart and have 10 kids, stop having kids - Charles Barkley
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other - Mother Teresa
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