United Airlines NYC Half Marathon (new course!!)

Obviously it’s been a while.

This was probably the first long run I did for 2018 and for someone who applied a lot of discipline and diligently trained for a race, the lack of training has been evident in the past weekend.

NYRR has decided to redo the NYC half marathon course and make it a bi-borough race, starting in Brooklyn and going through all the iconic NYC landmarks. While the course was much more scenic, it was much more challenging. Reviewing the route the day before the race, I was at an “oh shit” mind. And all my bad thoughts came true during the race. ALSO. While taking the train to the start, I caught vomit on my arm by a girl because she got so motion sick on the train. And we were approaching to the station. Like why!?!?!

Always Chasing

It has been a few weeks since I touched this blog and to be honest I knew I wasn’t going to come back unless I was going to run another marathon. I also know that I won’t have the discipline to run like how I do for a marathon unless I sign up for another marathon. By the way, I haven’t done so yet. But I’m 95% sure that I will be doing so. The race is so small, I can pretty much sign up the day before without issues… But I will sign up for it soon, I promise!

Yes I’m that person who needs to constantly have a physical goal at hand in order to actually get my butt up and do it. But I know better. Since the marathon, I have only done 2 runs– one of them being a race. There is no way I can continue this so with that being said, next week I will begin a new training cycle. Sixteen weeks from now I will run my third marathon. 

Week 17/18???

Spoiler alert: I didn’t have the ideal post marathon recovery regiment. Maybe I’m just so caught up with recovery being just as important as the training itself but it is a big deal. 

Week 15

Ugh because I’ve just got into the academy like 2 weeks ago, everything is just out of wonk. First off, living in Queens sucks. Sorry but not sorry if you’re a Queens person but why is everything so damn far away? And why must I also take a bus? Traveling into Manhattan (for various things  including bib pickup) takes minute and a half and then I have to come back which takes two. 

Week 12- Fueled by Rain

Flu season is on full throttle. I work as a seasonal travel nurse going to corporations and stabbing, I mean giving flu shots for hours on end. However my company changed their operations by giving us all the supplies to us directly to our address. You’d think that makes it easier? Not when they expect you to bring the supplies to the location in a shipping crate that I can essentially fit into. Now bring that on the subway. On rush hour. With no elevators.

It doesn’t help when the trolley they give you is the cheapest thing on the planet. The wheels are so small, any crack on the sidewalk will topple the giant crate over. And you already know in New York there is a shit ton of construction. Sometimes I can’t even walk 5 feet without this giant crate falling again and again and again.

So that was my past few weeks. I’ve been having the worst anxiety commuting when I have to drag that crate around. I’ve probably done a ton of upper body strength training carrying that thing up the stairs. Thank goodness I haven’t needed to carry it down the stairs. I think it would topple me over. Once I finish the program I throw it to the nearest FedEx and say good riddance to it. I take the train home feeling 1000lb lighter.

But the point is, it might have been the cause of my desire to go straight home and not do anything during the work week.