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11.5 @mere CONGRATS!!! i super wanted to quit my marathon at mile 18 lol, i was like this is so not fun and i'm also not even close to done. i felt nauseous too, at some points during and then after. i'm still super dehydrated even 2 days out!! which is crazy because i felt so hydrated going into it and felt like i drank a normal amount during the race?? i'm significantly more thrashed than i was with the 20 miler. def tough on the bod, hope you're proud & can recover well! it's been so fun to chat w you thru this crazy running goal :)
11.4 @mere thank you so much!!!!! i'll be thinking of u tomorrow, have so much fun you're gonna totally crush it!!! hope you feel great & enjoy!!!
10.29 @hmmmmmmm hard to say without more deets but losing your mind is a good sign things need to change! i spent like 6 months in pre breakup relationship limbo & it did a lot of damage to my nervous system / brain. i didn't realize how bad that time in limbo was until many months after our relationship was over. hopefully through either affirming your relationship or ending it you can minimize time spent losing your mind! sending u flounder luv
10.23 @mere i was feeling jealous of your solo marathon! i didn't do sports in HS so i feel like i'm coming to exercise late. i remember in middle school when i quit basketball i was like, guess i'll never drink gatorade again. but now i get to. lol anyway. i'm excited to be a part of the marathon, i really do feel like it's the best day in nyc if you're not running it so i can't imagine what it'll be like to run. just the attention / coordination freaking me out, the event is so big, i feel so fragile around it and what i can actually control feels small.
i don't know if exercise is related to your body weirdness, but i'm so surprised at the way exercising like this has changed my body / how i feel about it / my awareness of it. i just wasn't prepared to think about my body so much more than i had prior to training. i always just try to be like. well i could never run like this before. eurgh. hope it eases for you <3 soon we will all be ghosts <3
10.18 @mere thank you!!! so fun that we're on similar schedules - i think i saw you post that you were running your marathon first week of nov too? i feel like we're in it together! enjoy your last long runs & happy taper to you too!!
10.3 @mere i followed you on strava! and i'm sorry you have covid :( that sounds really frustrating, esp after getting to such a big distance. i'm always so afraid of time off from running but i feel like even if you start back and it's initally rough you can build / bounce back faster (as opposed to like starting from 0). not that i know anything about running. either way, it sucks to be forced off the field :(
hard agree on slowing as i approach traffic lights. lights and the general urban environment do definitely affect my time, but i'm not really fast at all and i take walk breaks anyway so i don't let it stress me tooo much? idk, mentally sometimes it's frustrating to have starts and stops. i tend to mix in running loops in a park or something throughout my week which helps me get a feel for time - maybe as i get more serious this will become a bigger issue, but for now i'm not good enough that it really matters (imo).
i really don't have a sense of what sort of time i should be shooting for in the marathon at all - it seems so hard to approximate your pace for a distance you've never done before, in a totally new setting. your missouri plan sounds really cool though!! i love the informal marathon. my sister did her first half marathon in my hometown with my mom driving behind her giving her water and it sounded really sweet. if you write more abt running i'm excited to read. :) wishing you a speedy recovery & catch ya on strava!
9.28 @alex RIP the internet is a big truck
9.28 @moldgold hahaha thanks for answering and sorry for slow again! it's cool to read abt your running :p and i feel you on strava angst, i was a faithful mapmyrun user for many years lol which i don't think anyone uses. are you training for a marathon?? & yes i'm doing new york in november! :)
9.3 @moldgold AH! sorry, i just saw your mail now, which i checked because i just randomly looked at your flounder and saw running content. sorry for slow!!!
i read similar things about the higdon plan - i don't know what you're training for, but it seems like higdon's beginner plans are truly about just getting you to the finish line (a lot of people on reddit suggest it's like the bare minimum of running. particularly for the full marathon?? but idk anything). i believeeeee i did the higdon beginner half marathon plan for my first half, tried to do the intermediate plan for my second (mixed success). the biggest shift was going from 3 to 4 days of running, in retrospect this was good, since now i'm running 5 days a week. my first half was pretty rough, but i have never perfectly followed a plan.
lmk if you wanna gab more abt this....strava friends...lmk what you're training for ... & congrats on crushing your half today!! you are faster than me :p also, i experienced chafing for the first time ever on my 15 mile run on friday - aquaphor over night basically totally healed it by the next morning for me.
8.30 brolin queens reppppppp. i keep thinking about your message but forgetting to respond! nice to meet you via flounder :)
dori i think DCK is less salty due to being larger flakes but have been wrong before & will be wrong again...
8.18 alex after i show up to the hang in a thread bare stretched out falling apart t shirt:
8.15 doris octavia butler said god is change! i think abt this...
8.10 but I like your new chore coat
7.12 i think you should read and review popular books for your blogging career
5.30 @alex due to wokeness,,,
5.30 i know doris she never misses....
5.2. alex your post makes me think of crossing brooklyn ferry, the greatest poem about commuting. if you were available for live help i would ask u to help me link this
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45470/crossing-brooklyn-ferry
4.30.24 @alex they said it couldn't be done but i finally learned how to fish (make a flounder page without live assistance). yes i read your flounder whataboutit