So today was day 1 of week 1 of my marathon training. WHY AM I DOING THIS?! I hate running. I'm too ADD for 5 miles, how the hell am I going to do 26.2? I bet my friend that I will finish a marathon at a 9 minute pace before he gets out of grad school. He just entered, so I still have 3-4 years to reach this goal. I do have a plan though! I'm following the Marathon Rookies 16 week training schedule. I may be taking a little bit more than that, because 1. I suck at running at the moment and 2. I need a 9 minute pace for this bet. I got my friend Kevin doing this with me, so at least I have someone to yell at me about it. I will be recording a weekly summery of my runs here, so if see something I'm not doing right, please yell at me so I can do this. I'm going to need some major encouragement, because I tend to bitch out at times. In between training, I'm also going to fit in capoeira still. I'm not sure how I will fit this in, especially how I hate treadmills.
Speaking of the need to workout more...the one thing I need to never do again is go to Golden Corral. I only went because our company did an appreciation lunch for our workers in NC. Seriously, this place might be what's great and awful about this country. I feel that everything there has been put through a deep fryer or is on a grill. Your choice, grilled meat or fried meat. It's not horrible, simply because everything is deep fried, but buffets are evil. Oh god...are buffets evil. I feel like all the exercise in the world can't work down the damage I did in that 30 minutes of eating. You tend to not only eat a lot, but also eat fast...a deadly duo. Then there's a "chocolate wonderfall", its a fountain of flowing chocolate, which really wasn't that great, but I can see how that could be dangerous for some people. Thankfully, after this crap, I have capoeira to not be a total fat ass.
I've been to NC a lot but I didn't find this place until recently. I've been here a couple of times, but never wrote about it on here. Inst. Maravlha do ASCAB Capoeira, has a great class in Raleigh and Carborro. I always liked the ASCAB style, Mestre Doutor is a great guy, and Monitora Gata Brava is one of the most amazing capoeiristas I've seen. If you haven't seen her, YouTube her. If you are ever in NC, check them out. I still got a lot of love for the Capoeira Brazil NC folks, but the styles are really different and its good to change up pace at times. Not gonna lie, Inst. Maravlha did make me comfortably, but surprisingly, sore for the week.
If anyone who is reading this is in DC this weekend, please come out to FICA DC is having their end of the year roda (1130am-200pm). I've been training with them for the last couple of months. It's a all white roda, so come in your nicest whites and vamos vadiar. Also, Capoeira Males is also having an end of the year roda (200pm-400pm?). If regional is more your thing come out, or be like me and do both!
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