5 miles

I had 5 miles on the schedule tonight and did them after a brief delay with the refrigerator.  The wife made sloppy joes for the kid and his nephew and I ended up having two for dinner.  I don’t know why really, because I wasn’t very hungry.  Just something about the taste.  Maybe the MSG makes me hungrier.

So I did my 5 miles with sloppy joes in my stomach and I was sorry right around mile 3 when the stomach cramps started hitting me.  I tried sucking my gut in real hard for a bit, then pushed it out hard for a bit, and the combination fixed it after a spell.  I’m sure it looked odd to observers in their houses.

Tonight while I was running I had those thoughts.  You know the ones.  The ones where you start thinking you should run another marathon because you have forgotten the pain from the last one already.  There’s one in February (oh wouldn’t that be a nice one, huh?), but I think if I would do another, it would be the Hudson-Mohawk again.  They had a nice course and good food, and I still have unfinished business with that one after throwing my race plan to the wind and crashing and burning my way to the finish.

Thinking about it anyway.

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