{"id":248,"date":"2012-09-11T21:25:32","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T02:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.megabracket.com\/beta\/blog\/?p=248"},"modified":"2012-09-12T20:45:26","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T01:45:26","slug":"jimmys-runs-a-5k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megabracket.com\/beta\/blog\/2012\/09\/jimmys-runs-a-5k\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Runs a 5k"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This post will be written in a timeline in order for dramatic effect or something along those lines.<\/p>\n

Two Months Prior to race day: I get an email from my sister asking if I want to run in a 5k with her and my other sister.\u00a0 Being a person that often makes decisions without thinking about them first said, “Sure why the hell not.”\u00a0 I had started up P90X again, surely I could tackle a 5K.<\/p>\n

One month and 29 Days prior to race day: Completely forget about saying I would run in a 5k.<\/p>\n

One month prior to race day: Pull a muscle or get a hernia or some other excuse that I stop working out until I feel better<\/p>\n

One week prior to race day: Sitting outside around a bonfire with the neighbors pounding a few beers when I have an epiphany that I am supposed to run a 5k the next day or maybe the next week.\u00a0 Laugh about it and drink 15 more beers.<\/p>\n

4 Days prior to race: Get an email from my sister reminding me of our 5K on Saturday.\u00a0 Me: “Son of a Bitch, well I guess I’m still gonna do this”\u00a0 Call my sister and tell her I’m still in.\u00a0 In the back on my mind I’m thinking there’s no way I can do this.<\/p>\n

3 Days prior to race:\u00a0 I decided I better at least try and run a mile.\u00a0 So I wait for the cover of darkness to avoid people seeing the catastrophe that is about to happen.\u00a0 Thirty seconds into the mile I begin to think there is no way I can do this and seriously consider walking back to my house.\u00a0 Two minutes in and I’m still not thinking I’m going to make it.\u00a0 The only reason I don’t stop is that my house a mere 2 blocks behind me seems so far away.\u00a0 So I trudge on thinking what the hell am I doing.\u00a0 Fast forward 10 minutes and 30 seconds and I am back at my house.\u00a0 I’m ecstatic that I made it, but my legs are on fire and I feel like I’m going to pass out.\u00a0 However, I’m convinced I can make it through the 5k<\/p>\n

2 Days prior to race:\u00a0 My quads are so tight that I can barely get down the steps in my house.\u00a0 There’s no possible way I’m going to be able to run this race, consider calling my sisters and telling them I’m out.\u00a0 Luckily I have a golf tournament to go to that will help keep my off the impending sense of doom that is creeping into my mind.<\/p>\n

Approximately 24hrs till race day:\u00a0 Wake up in the morning and my legs feel like they may actually work today and my second thought is that I’m going to need to eat well today and carb load.\u00a0 The following was my diet for the day:<\/p>\n

Breakfast: Skipped…apparently sometime between 7:00 am and 7:30 am I forgot about the whole eating well today. I do manage about 5 cups of coffee at work though between 8:00 am and 11:00 am.<\/p>\n

Lunch: Gus comes to my office to see if I want to go out for lunch, forgetting about the salad I was going to have, I say yes.\u00a0 My choice for lunch is a chicken parm sandwich where the cheese consists of 8 fried mozzarella sticks.\u00a0 I’m sure there’s plenty of carbs, but just in case I get an order of fries too.<\/p>\n

Dinner:\u00a0 Alright this is the meal where I actually eat something decent today.\u00a0 Well the wife is at a photo shoot, so I make the kids mac and cheese for dinner.\u00a0 Apparently 2 boxes is only enough to feed 3 small children.\u00a0 Not wanting to make anything else I decide to wait for the wife to get home.\u00a0 She wants Panchero’s, which essentially is a 5 pound burrito the size of my head.\u00a0 I say sure thinking of all the carb loading I’ll be doing with the rice, forgetting of the gut wrenching indigestion I’ll get from the extra hot sauce and jalapenos I also decide to get.\u00a0 To top it off I decide I better have few beers with the neighbors before getting a good night sleep.<\/p>\n

Race Day Morning:\u00a0 Rise and shine at 6:00 am and down some cheerios for breakfast. Then head to the gas station for as much Gatorade that I can carry.\u00a0 While there I notice they have something called Gatorade Prime that was supposed to give me the vitamins and energy to run this race.\u00a0 I throw it in with everything else and decide to chug it just before the race.<\/p>\n

7:00 am: One hour till race time. I decide I need to arrive early to get in plenty of stretch time.<\/p>\n

7:59 am: One minute till race. Pandora is on the headphones and I’m ready to rock to this thing.<\/p>\n

8:00 am:\u00a0 I’m positioned about mid-pack looking for someone I can keep pace with and the people that I can’t get beat by.\u00a0 Suddenly the gun sounds and we’re off.\u00a0 Holy shit these people are running fast, my sisters immediately distance themselves, so much for keeping pace with them.<\/p>\n

8:01 am: I get passed by an little old lady shaped and looking like a plum.\u00a0 What the hell am I really going to get beat by Plum Lady? Oh well I’ve just got to finish this and I’ll save a big kick for the end, I just have to keep her in sight.<\/p>\n

8:15 am: Holy shit I’m going to die, this has to almost be over.\u00a0 Plum Lady is beginning to pull away.<\/p>\n

8:17 am:\u00a0 Turn a corner and see my wife and 3 kids cheering me on.\u00a0 Not wanting my 4 year to think his dad is going to die, I put on a big smile and give him a high five.\u00a0 There’s no way I’m going to catch Plum Lady and I just got passed by a 7 year old girl.<\/p>\n

8:30 am: I’m convinced there’s no way I’m going to finish, but I’ve caught up to the 7 year old girl.<\/p>\n

8:36 am: Sweet Jesus the finish line is in sight.\u00a0 In my moment of elation I get passed by a guy in a full on sprint. What the hell, where did this guy come from.\u00a0 Then I realize I just got beat by a guy running the 10k.\u00a0 Holy Shit he is a man or Cheetah.<\/p>\n

8:38 am: I did it! My first thought is to scan the crowd for Plum Lady to congratulate her and confirm that she was not a figment of my imagination. Alas she is nowhere to found, maybe she was my giant plum colored white rabbit.\u00a0 Clearly my oxygen depleted brain had been manifesting hallucinations in an attempt push me towards the finish.\u00a0 Hell maybe I had passed out and\u00a0 along the route somewhere.\u00a0 Five minutes pass by when I finally see a small purplish glob prodding towards the finish line…it was the Plum Lady!\u00a0 Some how some way I had passed her, I can only assume she got lost or sidetracked when we passed the yarn store.\u00a0 But alas, victory was mine and I could with a clear conscious crack open a beer knowing that I had not been beaten by the 65 year old plum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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