Intervention

This is just a quick post to respond to Andrew’s comment on yesterday’s Training Summary post. I feel the need to address it with a separate post for two reasons. First of all, he’s right, I do need to break the addiction, and second, it leads to a couple funny stories related to that.

Before last Monday’s run, I walked out of the Bast Center to see Andy, Shelli (Andy’s wife and the women’s track coach at Roanoke), Andrew, and Matthew all standing in a semi-circle. I figured they were just talking (and in reality they were), but when I walked up Andrew says, “Steve, this is an intervention. You’re running too much.” Ha, ha, ha. Funny stuff, or at least I got a good laugh out of it, although it was really one of those “sad but true” moments. Furthermore, Andrew made a deal with me that I agreed to but then broke. The deal was, if he ran sub-60 at the Charlottesville Ten Miler, then I had to stay under 60 miles for the week. He ran 58:06, which was very solid considering that’s not an easy course and he was coming off a marathon and not a whole lot of training since. That meant I was supposed to cut a mile off my Sunday long run, but to be honest that was never even a consideration, hence the broken deal.

All funniness aside, I do need to “break the addiction” and that’s what I’m setting out to do. As I’ve stated before, all my insanity has been based on a desire to be the best I can be, but obviously the end results have not been what I hoped for, so it’s time to finally commit to a change and I realized that once and for all over the weekend. More on that tomorrow.