It’s already Thursday, which is great for several reasons. First, I don’t have to write a blog tonight. Also, I start carb-loading again today, although really, I’m not very excited about that. I get to go out to lunch with my wife and daughter today since it’s Thursday (except I really won’t, because she’s been busy this week with a lot of things and can’t make it). But most important, I get to offer up my weekend preview blog, and while that might not truly be what’s most important, it’s a lead-in to the rest of my blog.
Just in case this is your first time here, I’m a father of three and a marathon runner. My middle child, 6 1/2-year-old Jack, is severely autistic. I wanted to do something to try to make sense and a purpose out of what he’s going through, so I came of with the idea of trying to run 60 marathons this year to raise money and awareness for a charity I’m a part of called Train 4 Autism. I call it my stupid human trick.
So far, I’m on target. This is the 20th weekend of 2010 coming up and Sunday’s Rite Aid Cleveland Marathon will be my 25th full marathon of the year.
Weekly Contest
Every week, I have a contest where you try to guess my time in my upcoming race. Now, since this is all for charity, it costs money to participate in the contest. But since I’m a really nice guy, it doesn’t cost a whole lot of money. Basically, if you think my time is going to be 3:12, you donate $3.12. If you think it’s going to be 4:00, I don’t like you either, but I thank you for the $4. To enter, you can click here or on the “Donate Now!” link on the top of any page.
The person who wins the contest is the person who comes the closest without bidding under and in the event of a tie, I’ll draw between the participants who tied. The winner gets their choice of an Operation Jack t-shirt, tech shirt or sweatshirt. The sweatshirts are getting pretty good reviews, although I’m not getting complaints about anything.
Last week’s winner was Katey Williamson. She should just write my blog and tell what she expects me to do, because I think this is the third time she’s won. She said she wanted to keep playing until she won one of each item. I told her I hoped she started losing so I could keep getting her $3. Oh well, I was just joking and I’m happy with whoever wins, because they played, which I appreciate.
To help you play the contest, I write a little bit of a preview of the race and I forecast how I think I’m going to do. It’s a crapshoot — anything can happen during the course of a race — but I usually know when I’m going to run well and when I’m not going to run well. I’ll get to that in a bit.
Tweet Of The Day
Ok, so if you don’t follow me on Twitter, you found this blog other than from when I tweeted it. And you missed my Tweet of the Day yesterday, as voted on by me.
“Tom Brady has sons named Benjamin & Jack & a hot wife, just like me. But I have 52 marathon medals & he only has 3 Super Bowl rings.” Yep, that’s true. If you follow me on Twitter (@operationjack) you’ll get pearls of wisdom like that.
Jack Story Of The Day
Jack had a great morning yesterday. He struggled getting out of bed, but he was in a great mood when I got him to school, which was the exact opposite of Tuesday. I picked him up from Tiff after work because we had a session at Advanced Hyperbarics last night.
It’s so weird, because I meet up with Tiff at a gas station right off the highway to get Jack. Any outsider watching would probably think we’re having a custody exchange. I learned to stop really caring about what other people think a while ago, because with Jack I’ve learned to focus on him, not strangers.
Anyways, the session was great for the first 2/3 or so, and I started writing this blog (on a pad of paper with a pencil) while he watched a Curious George movie. But out of nowhere, he started having a meltdown and I struggled to calm him down. I felt bad watching him sit there getting so upset. I have no clue what the problem is, and I hate looking at the little guy knowing he has to sit through his sessions in there because of something he was born with. A lot of kids are much worse off, but it’s still sad to look at your own kid and know he’s not living a typical childhood.
At least on the ride home he was pretty calm and then he went to sleep without much issue. Poor little dude.
Race Preview
OK, this week’s race is the Rite Aid Cleveland Marathon. I took a quick look at the course profile yesterday. It’s got some rollers and a couple of decent climbs, but it doesn’t look ridiculous. I wouldn’t call it a PR course, but it looks like a course I could reasonably expect to go fast on if I have a good day.
The more I race, the more I realize I don’t race too well heading up longer hills, but I do fairly well on rollers. You use different muscles going uphill than you do downhill, so I mix it up and my body seems to respond pretty well to that. They don’t faze me like they used to. I just wish I didn’t fade so bad heading up hills.
A big part of it all is mental, and mentally, I’m fired up to run. I have some very good supporters running in this race, and the way I see it, I owe them a good run on their course. I felt the same way when I ran Tampa with Jen Morgan, and I feel the same way this weekend. I started doing a training plan with speedwork again last week, so I’m just getting going with that.
Physically, I’m feeling decent, aside from some sporadic throbbing in my right leg. Mentally, though, I have some confidence with two sub-3:10s in the past month, plus the addition of speedwork to my regimen. And of course, I’m pretty excited to run. I probably won’t be too well rested, but I won’t be excessively tired.
I want this one bad and I really think I can go get it. So, as optimistic as this sounds, I’m setting my over/under at 3:08.
Please, please, please … I know you have $3! Hook me up with the pat on the back I’m craving and participate in the contest! Just click on the “Donate Now!” link on the top of this page!
EDIT: I wrote this blog Wednesday night, but on my run Thursday morning, my right hip/glute really started stinging me at about 5 miles in. I’m working on this and am optimistic about Sunday. If this flares up, though, it could be another one of those days in the 3:20 range. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
Follow-Up To My Tweet Of The Day
So I went with this: “My wife found Dreyer’s Root Beer Float flavored ice cream with only 100 calories per 1/2 cup. Let’s see Tom Brady’s wfe buy that!” That’s what I had last night to stretch the streak to 102 days. Eight more to tie my record, nine to make history.
You want this. Believe me, you want this.
That’s All For Today, Folks
Have a great weekend! I’ll post a race recap at some point on Sunday.
Looking forward to seeing you this weekend, Sam!
Those meltdown are awful – especially when we think that there’s probably no way we can even empathize because our senses don’t work in the same ways as our kids. But that doesn’t make them any less real or easy to deal with – it just makes it harder.
One thing autism has taught me is that the opinions of other people just really don’t matter. Other people have no clue what my kid is going through based only on “that kid throwing a tantrum in public,” so their opinions of my parenting skills are moot at best. I know (at least on an intellectual level) what my kid is going through, that’s what matters.
That ice cream looks awesome; We’ll see you Saturday & Sunday. Sorry I cannot run, but I’m going to try and run in Philly in Nov (once I am running again!)
So I thought I knew what I was going to bet for this weekend…and then I ran about your run this morning. You do have to make things difficult huh!? 🙂 …I’m also praying the wind doesn’t mess up my bet this weekend!
Have fun!
“aside from some sporadic throbbing in my right leg”–dude,that’s not normal. But, I guess your version of “normal” is skewed since ya know, you run at least one marathon a week. 🙂
And um, that ice cream? Sounds like perfection. I’ve noticed that Texas doesn’t seem to stock the good flavors–I had to hunt for a carton of the Thin Mint ice cream like you wouldn’t believe. My sis in law was back in CA for a few weeks and she said that all the stores had it in boatloads. Not cool Texas, not cool….
Have a great race!
PS. My damn husband told my step mom about Missoula. She’s now totally excited. Have to see if I can actualy afford tickets to Missoula! The stalking might start in July instead of October. Don’t try to pretend like having your own stalker isn’t cool.
Wahoo!! I’m excited about this weekend, too! I look forward to meeting you! Fingers crossed for a healthy, pain-free race!!
And what about adding some more illustrations? I’m not trying to offend anyone, blog is really great. But as I’ve heard people acquire info much more efficient when they see some useful illustrations.
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I am so going to find that ice cream this weekend! Yumo!
Good luck this weekend, have a safe trip and run hard, run fast and enjoy!
I was wondering if you’re still doing the Hyperbarics, glad it’s still working 🙂
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