The Monthly Challenge

It is almost November 2nd (thanks Daylight Savings Time!) and I just now thought of my challenge for November.

Happy end of Labor Day Weekend! After a weekend full of scavenger hunting, sleeping, eating, and beaching, it's time to rebuild all of those brain cells lost during Alcoholic August.

That's right - I made it the full

I have three days until the big day. I went for a ~3.5mi run yesterday and then a little over 5 miles today. I felt pretty good after the run today - not too tired, not too out of breath - but I'll need to double that on Sunday. Oh, and then there's the whole being sore an hour afterwards thing. I'm pretty sure I won't be able to go into work on Monday, let alone walk. I'll probably be in a bathtub full of ice. If I don't go to work, maybe I can bring my laptop into the ice bath. Yeah, that'd be fun.

So, the only half-marathon I can find anytime soon is the Disneyland half marathon at the end of August. I'm planning on being extremely out of shape by then, so the new challenge for June is going to be to run a ~10 mi. loop by myself. This may be harder since I won't have other runners to push me, or onlookers who I don't want to look lame and tired in front of.

The goal for this Saturday is to run the "hard loop" at Runyon Canyon. The loop is probably about a bit over a mile of incredibly narrow and steep paths followed by probably another mile and a half or so of downhills. (Those measurements could be way off.) The tough part though, is that I'll likely be doing this on Saturday afternoon which is supposed to be 85 degrees.

Tomorrow brings promises of heavy drinking & Scrabble at Rina's birthday party, along with the first test of The Monthly Challenge -