Went out last night at 9pm and
turtled through 6.5, feeling more rested this morning ran a solid 11.5 miles - getting me to 101 miles for the week. Feel healthy & strong - kind of tired, new training week starts Saturday - week 3 of 100 miles is in the can! Cool. Sunday is the last day to run a qualifying time of faster than 2:22 to earn a spot in the
United States Olympic trials in the men’s marathon, which will be held in
Central Park on Nov. 3, the day before the NYC Marathon. That guy below on the left is New York Road Runner - Central Park Track Club member Thom Little - he has run
2:25 @ NYC Marathon.
He's racing in the Chicago Marathon this weekend, if he cracks 2:22 he'll get to run another marathon, the Olympic trials, only 27 days later on his home turf, Central Park.
To run a
2:22 marathon, a runner must keep up a pace of 5 minutes 25 seconds a mile over the 26.2 miles . Thom can do it on that flat Chicago course.
Thom said to the New York Times, “I started dating a woman this summer, and she explained to her coworkers about the trials,” said Little, who ran a personal-best
2:25:55 at the New York City Marathon last year. “When I went to some work event, they were calling
me the Olympian, which was pretty funny. I was like, ‘You guys are way off, but O.K.’ ” Thom, take the credit for goodness sake, you've earned it ! "Get paid Thom", you're putting in the work and "clean", unlike Marion Jones there on the right, who today will admit what everyone in running has known for over a decade, big time steroid user - painfully obvious with that man's body, and why did she do it? Bottom line is she wanted to "
get paid". Well "
getting paid" is something I tried to do with a woman once, a woman who runs and on my blog told everyone she's hired a "
well known and experienced NYC Marathon runner" as a personal coach to get her to a 3:30 NYC marathon. Remember the
Eye to Eye Contact blog
entry? Well the woman I am speaking of, and spoke of anonymously did as I said she would, read my blog - and responded. I had not read her response until last night and just replied back in kind.
Go check it out - it's hilarious, she's hilarious, I hope Thom Little has found the one for him as being single in NYC?...the stories I could tell, and here's another that will leave you in stitches! This very woman who elected to publish on my blog that she's paying this "
well known & experienced NYC Marathon Runner" to personally coach her? I wonder what he (the coach) has to do to get paid? Let me tell you what I had to do, from the very same woman - pull teeth & it's a funny story. Here we go, she tells me she needs to buy a computer, hates to have to spend another couple of grand, etc. After identifying her computation needs (according to her), I told her she can save a ton of money and get a computer on
Craigslist that will do the job for $300 - $400 or so. She then asks me to buy a computer on
Craigslist for her (since I am more computer
savvy) and that she will just pay me back - simple reimbursement. I'm busy but I'm up for a favor for a friend and say "okay - let me help this woman save a grand or so". So I go about doing exactly that, found a computer, checked it out, paid the seller $300 (might have been $350, this was last January) and solved the problem. I contacted her, she's happy, I bring the computer over to her @ her place - coincidentally on the night we had
introductory first time sex with each other. Okay, dinner/wine/sex - it all goes down, the next morning we're showered, dressed, in the
doorway of her apartment, the front door is open and we're about to leave to start our day and she's looking for her purse. She says to me, "oh yeah - I forgot to reimburse you for the computer, let me get my wallet". She locates her wallet, starts counting out money, cash, and she says, "here". I stick out my hand and she places a stack of cash in my hand. At this moment I was amused. Why? Here I was in this woman's apartment, first time introductory sex, we're both dressed and leaving, and I am standing here in the doorway receiving a stack of cash. It all felt very "Pretty Woman
" except I was Julia Roberts, She was Richard
Gere. Humorously I felt like a "call girl" - to myself I thought, I just F #@%'ed this woman all night and now I'm getting cash placed in my hand by her"?,
lol. Now I am one to laugh and muse at everything y'all - life is best lived when you can laugh at yourself - so after she places this cash in my hand, we're standing there, I look at her and say, "wow, now that's a nice tip",
lol. At the moment it was a funny joke to me......Now get this - this woman? This woman that said "
I paid a well known and experienced NYC Marathon runner" This same lady? She responds to my joke by saying, "
yeah - why am I giving this to you anyway?" - and summarily that cash that only seconds earlier she placed in my hand?...that stack of cash?.....well she takes the cash right out from my hand...and places it back in her purse!!!!
I AM NOT KIDDING! That cash was in my hand less than 10 seconds y'all. What did I do? Nothing- not a thing - I was stunned....speechless....trying to figure out what the hell was this all about?.... she was serious too - I said not a word...we just continued on with our day. I did not say anything that day, or for the next couple of weeks y'all. I only wondered, "Is this some kind of new rule of dating or sex I know nothing about?....everything said and agreed to before the sex is moot or something, erased, does not count, these are the new rules"? To say I was "befuddled" would put it mildly. This was just one of the signs that this woman was not for me - and sure enough - this became a repeated pattern of behavior of this woman. She would say one thing, we would agree on one thing - however she would comfortably disregard what she said or we agreed to - change her mind and "that was that" - I was supposed to accept this I suppose. Well I did not - I ended this. Ultimately we sat down and I laid out to her in clear inarguable details, her "flip flops" - she agreed too (to her credit) - this incident in this blog entry is only 1 of several incidents but a funny incident - I can laugh at (my expense). The tragic ones I won't publish, but they exist. So for me it's just too funny to read her publish on my blog "
I paid a well known and experienced NYC Marathon Runner" when I know in real life, for me....to get paid...to be reimbursed? It took a month plus AFTER I addressed the matter with her. Now that's the truth - as is everything on this blog. - I had to pull teeth and move heaven and earth for goodness sake, to get paid. In
her response to me her self - aggrandizing is to the point of hilarity. Mind you this woman betrayed me in the most severe way a person can to another - yup - she knows it, she did not dispute a single word in my blog entry then and she won't dispute that statement - it's true - yet and still nonetheless I took the high road in the exit and remain on that plane only poking fun at the silly, like in this blog entry. Life is good when you can laugh at your own personal foibles...that's what I do. Have a great day!
me the Olympian, which was pretty funny. I was like, ‘You guys are way off, but O.K.’ ” Thom, take the credit for goodness sake, you've earned it ! "Get paid Thom", you're putting in the work and "clean", unlike Marion Jones there on the right, who today will admit what everyone in running has known for over a decade, big time steroid user - painfully obvious with that man's body, and why did she do it? Bottom line is she wanted to "get paid". Well "getting paid" is something I tried to do with a woman once, a woman who runs and on my blog told everyone she's hired a "well known and experienced NYC Marathon runner" as a personal coach to get her to a 3:30 NYC marathon. Remember the Eye to Eye Contact blog
entry? Well the woman I am speaking of, and spoke of anonymously did as I said she would, read my blog - and responded. I had not read her response until last night and just replied back in kind. Go check it out - it's hilarious, she's hilarious, I hope Thom Little has found the one for him as being single in NYC?...the stories I could tell, and here's another that will leave you in stitches! This very woman who elected to publish on my blog that she's paying this "well known & experienced NYC Marathon Runner" to personally coach her? I wonder what he (the coach) has to do to get paid? Let me tell you what I had to do, from the very same woman - pull teeth & it's a funny story. Here we go, she tells me she needs to buy a computer, hates to have to spend another couple of grand, etc. After identifying her computation needs (according to her), I told her she can save a ton of money and get a computer on Craigslist that will do the job for $300 - $400 or so. She then asks me to buy a computer on Craigslist for her (since I am more computer savvy) and that she will just pay me back - simple reimbursement. I'm busy but I'm up for a favor for a friend and say "okay - let me help this woman save a grand or so". So I go about doing exactly that, found a computer, checked it out, paid the seller $300 (might have been $350, this was last January) and solved the problem. I contacted her, she's happy, I bring the computer over to her @ her place - coincidentally on the night we had introductory first time sex with each other. Okay, dinner/wine/sex - it all goes down, the next morning we're showered, dressed, in the
doorway of her apartment, the front door is open and we're about to leave to start our day and she's looking for her purse. She says to me, "oh yeah - I forgot to reimburse you for the computer, let me get my wallet". She locates her wallet, starts counting out money, cash, and she says, "here". I stick out my hand and she places a stack of cash in my hand. At this moment I was amused. Why? Here I was in this woman's apartment, first time introductory sex, we're both dressed and leaving, and I am standing here in the doorway receiving a stack of cash. It all felt very "Pretty Woman
" except I was Julia Roberts, She was Richard Gere. Humorously I felt like a "call girl" - to myself I thought, I just F #@%'ed this woman all night and now I'm getting cash placed in my hand by her"?, lol. Now I am one to laugh and muse at everything y'all - life is best lived when you can laugh at yourself - so after she places this cash in my hand, we're standing there, I look at her and say, "wow, now that's a nice tip", lol. At the moment it was a funny joke to me......Now get this - this woman? This woman that said "I paid a well known and experienced NYC Marathon runner" This same lady? She responds to my joke by saying, "yeah - why am I giving this to you anyway?" - and summarily that cash that only seconds earlier she placed in my hand?...that stack of cash?.....well she takes the cash right out from my hand...and places it back in her purse!!!! I AM NOT KIDDING! That cash was in my hand less than 10 seconds y'all. What did I do? Nothing- not a thing - I was stunned....speechless....trying to figure out what the hell was this all about?.... she was serious too - I said not a word...we just continued on with our day. I did not say anything that day, or for the next couple of weeks y'all. I only wondered, "Is this some kind of new rule of dating or sex I know nothing about?....everything said and agreed to before the sex is moot or something, erased, does not count, these are the new rules"? To say I was "befuddled" would put it mildly. This was just one of the signs that this woman was not for me - and sure enough - this became a repeated pattern of behavior of this woman. She would say one thing, we would agree on one thing - however she would comfortably disregard what she said or we agreed to - change her mind and "that was that" - I was supposed to accept this I suppose. Well I did not - I ended this. Ultimately we sat down and I laid out to her in clear inarguable details, her "flip flops" - she agreed too (to her credit) - this incident in this blog entry is only 1 of several incidents but a funny incident - I can laugh at (my expense). The tragic ones I won't publish, but they exist. So for me it's just too funny to read her publish on my blog "I paid a well known and experienced NYC Marathon Runner" when I know in real life, for me....to get paid...to be reimbursed? It took a month plus AFTER I addressed the matter with her. Now that's the truth - as is everything on this blog. - I had to pull teeth and move heaven and earth for goodness sake, to get paid. In her response to me her self - aggrandizing is to the point of hilarity. Mind you this woman betrayed me in the most severe way a person can to another - yup - she knows it, she did not dispute a single word in my blog entry then and she won't dispute that statement - it's true - yet and still nonetheless I took the high road in the exit and remain on that plane only poking fun at the silly, like in this blog entry. Life is good when you can laugh at your own personal foibles...that's what I do. Have a great day!
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