last week i topped a 25 mile week for the first time since the marathon. and within days, i was losing weight again, feeling strong again, and remembering what that familiar and welcome soreness was like. i think i need to keep the mileage up in the 25+ per week range. anything less is not cutting it for me anymore. (That's the problem with progress... you can't go back.)
in true girl-on-steroids fashion, i had way too much that i was hoping to get done last night. B14 and i jumped in the car and attempted to buy a push reel lawnmower, pick up a microwave, pick up some bike parts, try on sports bras and pick up some running crap, mow the lawn at the old place with the new mower, drop the microwave off at B14's, and make it home in time for Hell's Kitchen. We accomplished all but two of these... dropped off the mower but didn't do the job (I'll do that today) and I missed 45 min of Hell's Kitchen. But, Jen was sent home, which was all I really wanted to happen anyway.
we walked into the running store on the wrong night, though, and Nike was signing people up for their little chicago marathon training program with some fair full of people pushing the Nike brand. UGH. I've talked about how I feel about Nike several times on this blog and won't rehash it, but, while I was considering buying my next pair of shoes at that shop, it's now a definite NO! I told B14 that those people are what I hate about running- the trixies and grown up sorority girls with the little bands in their hair who were born running 7:00 miles. We need to take back the sport for real women- the kind who drink beer from a can and own pit bulls and dance to 80's music and have hips.
today's interval workout was no problem, though steroids make me thirsty, so i had fantasies of swimming and cold water the whole time. Hal's pop-up on training peaks this week was about running hard workouts hard and easy ones reaaaaly easy, so between intervals I ran 11:30 miles, for a 6.5mi average of like 10:40. whatever, my legs still feel the 2:00 400meter intervals, what happens in between is just recovery.
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Not sure I am getting this post. I don't consider myself a trixie at all but I did start running with sorority sisters in college(15+ years ago) as a cheap way to lose weight and get in shape. I don't really choose to drink beer from a can and think my pugs are just as superior to your pit. I do consider myself a real women but I can bust 7 min. miles. I am excited that running is so big and there are now stereotypes within the scene. How can you knock women who are out there running marathons? Just like riding, the more the better. Every women should be able to experience the power in completing a marathon. Sorry this post just hit the wrong nerve.
yikes- i guess i failed to be descriptive about how we were treated: eye rolls, ignored, like second class citizens.. the women seemed annoyed that we were taking up one of the two dressing rooms to try stuff on instead of change clothes... two girls were pawing through the sports bras while we were next to them in the dressing room and actually commented that "i can't believe people that need bras this big run!" it was a really negative experience. you know we love ya Holly, and I'd never consider you one of them since your attitude is so completely different.
Eep! Grown-up sorority girl here (blonde, too)... and I'm wearing a hair band right now, too. Doh!
p.s. who makes your favorite training plan? I'm gonna use one this year for an upcoming race.
I totally understand your post. You should see the looks I get when I ride with Christopher in the Burley to the library's story time or some other children's event where there are a lot of stay-at-home moms whose main hobbies are shopping and doing their hair. = )
Yeah... it's about enforcing norms. I don't care who you are or what your gig is, but when you start making motions or saying things that lead to my needing to be more like your norm, that's a problem. Just like the stay-at-home moms or the SkinnyRunningBrigade, it isn't bothersome until the pressure to conform turns on.
I think I understand where you're coming from, Julie, but I guess I just wonder if you're hoping for them to do the same (conform to your norm). If they were being catty or rude, then I understand being upset at that. Maybe that's the bigger issue...?
p.s. I love a good rhyme.
how is a pressure to conform any better than applying stereotypes to people you've never met?
as a skinny female who has no hair to do (pixie cut) AND drinks beer out of cans, i find your stereotyping of trixies and sorority girls pretty offensive, especially since i am neither but because i'm thin, i must be. i can out-eat plenty of my male friends, but i stay skinny because i'm active and hell, my metabolism just works that way. i'm completely convinced that i'm still a "real" woman despite having an a-cup and no butt. trust me, there are days when i wish i had something to fill out my shirt.
maybe you shouldn't listen to what other people say and instead work on getting over those insecurities that make you lash out at people who have said nothing directly to you?
wow, good times.
look, i could say nothing. most people say nothing. or i could say what i'm feeling, which i did.
there are plenty of us out there who have put up with years and years of crap from people that think they're better than we are. people who think we should be skinny and fast and rich and care about what color our nails are painted. it does build resentment, for sure.
i consider myself mostly over it, but when it jumps in my face- when a pack of exactly the type of people who've been jerks to me in the past do exactly what that has been done time and again- i'm supposed to just suck it up and tell myself not to stereotype? srsly.
it's also funny that i can't imagine anyone who does fit that stereotype reading this here thinger, and it's odd to me that folks are standing up for this crowd, as if they're part of it. the folks i choose to associate with aren't that.
Hey Julie. Fuck them. For real. They just aren't worth your time.
as usual, it's Judi for the win. hells yeah.
btw- went to a party tonight where I told a woman to seek you out. her 12 yr old pup is on the down and out, and she's looking at maybe a Dobie as a next pup... I recommended them based on what I know of yours! (with the warning that they won't pee when it rains...)
Cool, I hope she contacts me. I can talk about Dobermans all day long. :)
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