It seemed like I was gone forever on my run yesterday. Partly because I didn't how many miles it was that I was going I just knew that I was going to run from my house to Soangetaha to Lincoln Park. The other reason it took so long was because at least 4 miles of the run was directly into a 40 mph sustained wind. It was the kind of wind that was blowing my mind. The kind of wind that will literally make you go crazy. Regardless, the Doug Owen running head first into a 40 mph wind one step at a time is the Doug Owen that I want next to me in a bunker. For some reason at about mile 11 I thought that I was going to pass out. I got light headed and had to stop for about 30 seconds. When I get home I ate voraciously . .. .it may have been some sort of weird blood sugar thing. Regardless, 11.5 miles was the longest I have went since the marathon. I am "eyeing" a 30 mile (50k) race in Chicago in April. I haven't broken the news to my wife yet . . .
I weighed myself at the Y this morning and I am at 178. That is about 7 pounds heavier than when I ran the marathon. I have been lifting weights a couple of times per week so I think that some of that weight is from that...I know longer feel "skinny fat" the way that I did a couple of weeks after the marathon!
I have been watching a TON of youtube clips on different ultra races (Badwater, Western States, Rocky Raccoon 100) . . .anybody that can go over 26.2 miles is a stud . . .I want to be a stud.
