Coast to Coast
| October 12, 2012 | Posted by Emily under Uncategorized |
Hot damn, y’all. This week has been exhausting and nonstop busy. I’ve been out in Oregon for work and my itinerary involved 4 am wake up calls, three hotel rooms in three nights, and 7+ hours of driving. Fantastic and productive, absolutely. But, relaxing? Not so much.
However, despite the chaos, I remain as convinced as ever that I want to move out here, where even the iced coffee looks like beer. Also, let’s talk about the fact that I drank coffee for the first time in over four years. That should help clue you in to just how tired I am.
Luckily, after a whirlwind month of travel that took me to Oregon, Washington, Wisconsin, Connecticut, Vermont, New York and back to Oregon again, as of today, I am done with the flying and the driving and the overpacking a suitcase every three days.
I love traveling but holy shit, I can’t tell you just how excited I am to spend a weekend at home. So excited that I set a few ground rules to make sure this weekend delivers on the maxin’ relaxin’:
1) No alarm clocks allowed.
2) No transportation that involves anything other than my two legs.
3) No leaving the District of Columbia. Virginia? Forget it. Maryland? Too far. Just me and the D of C all weekend long.
I cannot wait.
Needless to say, I haven’t written one sentence of my 50 miler race report.
Yeah, remember how that happened 6 days ago? It feels like 6 months ago.
Even my legs feel like the race was in the distant past.
Obviously I couldn’t come to Oregon and not run, so I went out for a 4 mile test run on Tuesday morning before I flew out of DC (just to make sure I was good to go with packing the Hokas). I was pleasantly surprised with how fantastic my muscles felt. So into the suitcase went the hokas, and every morning (including one horrifically dark morning around the streets of Bend) I went for a 4-5 mile super easy run in my favorite state*
*not including Vermont, obviously.
I had no idea what to expect for a physical and mental recovery following the 50 miler. I very intentionally held off on making any race plans until seeing how things went down with the race and the immediate aftermath. But the fact that I’m running within a week with a still-ragin-runners-high has me positively pumped to spend a good portion of my weekend staycation thinking about the “what next” question.
And maybe even actually writing a race report.
You definitely deserve some R&R, Emily! Hope you have a great, low-key weekend! :)
Second that, time to chill *write the race recap already*!!! ;)
Hate to nag but PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE will you write that race report tonight?? I have a half marathon on Sunday and I am busting a gut to go sub-two-hours for the first time EVER and I need some Emily fierceness to focus on when I get weary at mile 10. Something about forcing tired legs to run even faster, that kind of thing!! Please.
And get some sleep as well :)
All night long I dreamt of running 50 miles,you being the instigator! Now I’m tired! ;)
Wow Emily you travel all over the place for your job? What kind of work do you do? I hope one day to make it out to Oregon, I hear just wonderful things about that state and of course the running that comes with it!
Those states look like a bunch of politically important states, are you working on a campaign? :)
You are right, you CAN’T go to Oregon and not run! I love Oregon and hope to move back there someday!
Yay for being home (finally), though I’m glad you got to spend some time in the beautiful Bend area. I think it needs to be moved to the top of your places to move list.
Good luck relaxing this weekend!
You need to include your awesome times and longer distances now that you’ve gone longer than a marathon! Time for an update!
Is there a 100 miler in the future? Some sort of crazy endurance-destination race? I can’t wait to hear about it :)
What do you do that takes you all over the country so much? If you ever need/want a place to stay for a running or working visit to Eugene, hit me up! (me and my 3 year old runner in training, that is…). We’d love to have you!
50 miler deserves 3Rs – rest, re-fuel and re-hydrate! Happy to see smiles all around and hearing that you’re enjoying the week. Hey, are those compression socks you have on? Brand?
I’ve been reading you for super long and finally came out of hiding.
What an AMAZING accomplishment. I just can’t even comprehend those miles!
I’ve been reading you for super long and finally came out of hiding.
What an AMAZING accomplishment. I just can’t even comprehend those miles!