A Typical Day in the Life of a Let's Run Addict

Wake up 2 hours to cat licking my forehead

Throw cat across room

Feed cat

Try to fall back asleep for 2 hours = Me staring at wall/ceiling mind-cursing the cat - wife is dead asleep

Poop

Check email

Run to work thinking it saves time

VERY quick shower at work

Speed walk from the shower half dressed to my cube about 15 minutes late still sweating from my run

Work

Lunch/LR - many crumbs and remnice of "Cheeto fingers" surrounding my mouse/keyboard

Work

Run Home - or maybe drive or bike - pondering the latest LR posts

Eat

Watch Netflix or TV or go do an errand

Continue to watch TV in bed thinking I'll lock the cat out when I get up to turn the TV off

Fall asleep watching TV - cat still in room

repeat

Hall of Mirrors wrote:

Wake up 2 hours...

= Wake up 2 hours EARLY

My days always start and finish the same way: On the crapper reading letsrun on my mobile phone.

3:30 AM up to deliver daily newspapers, 250 copies, five routes.

6:45 AM Starbucks, meet friend, have coffee, water & apple fritter & do daily crossword puzzle after solving word jumble.

9:00 AM home, read e-mails, read pih postings, cvrr postings, then log on to letsrun to see if anything intelligent has been posted on there.

10:00 either a run for 1/2 hr. or less (limited mileage & pace, chronic problems these days) or, teeve for 2 hr., usually a nap too....(then either a run or 2x a week deliver the local paper)

1:00 PM, more letsrun or other net surfing.

3:00 PM Starbucks again to hang out, late lunch....real nice when the sun is out....jeez this wet weather sucks big time these last 2 Summers.

5:00 PM grocery shopping, pet food, etc.

6:00 PM supper, teevee, more napping.

9:00 PM bed.

8;wake up, bathroom. breafast lets run .5 hr, read paper while watching espn , listen to wifes problems and tell her she is still hot, phone calls from my fan club , phone , , , read mail, check computer before going out to lunch about 2 and then run errands , lift lite weights and run sprints in my back yard sometimes on nearby track, take shower and 1 hr nap , eat snack dinner mostly crackers while watching tv, lets run for a while , another snack , zzz about 11 after attempt to seduce wife.Satch age 67 and attemting track comeback - bad hammies and limp dick.

7:00 am - Get up, grab a Clif bar or a bowl of oatmeal, and guzzle down a bottle of water and a Centrum Performance vitamin.

7:30 am - Quick hot shower directly on legs to get some warmth in them.

7:35 am - Sit around, stretch, read LetsRun

8:10 am - drive to soft wood chip trail (I use to run from my house, but for some reason my 20 year old body became injury prone and I must stay off the roads as much as possible)

8:20 am - Start run; limp a mile for a warm-up, stop stretch & wonder why I have a hard time running anymore, run for about 45-55 minutes, stop stretch, then run about a half mile for a cool down. (workout days differ)

9:45 am - home from run, massage stick to my legs , push-ups, abs , etc.

10:15 am - food , music, LetsRun, water, sports drink, etc

11:45 am - shower, get ready for class.

1:00 pm - start (3) 75 minute classes with only 15 minute break in between

5:15 pm - head for home

5:30 pm - homework, Letsrun, wank

11:30 pm - bed

All my friends dorm at college out of the area. I decided to commute to a local university. Worst decision of my life. No friends. I don't make new friends there either...

Water Rat wrote:

That about describes the typical day of a working stiff, letsrun addict perfectly, except my beer is alcoholic and I run with the local club or the kids's cross team whenever I can.

Very well done....you should feel good that you had me laughing out loud.

sleep in

read letsrun

finally go run, way too hot, so only run 4 miles instead of 6

sit on couch all sweaty and wet and read letsrun

ask what I could run for a 5K if I ran 10 miles in 58.45

convert the answers for my 10 mile workout last weekend in 78.45

hear mom coming home so I quickly move to the vinyl chair

whew, mom doesn't notice wet spot on the couch

shower

eat lunch

tell mom I'm looking into colleges online

read letsrun and make stupid comments all afternoon

eat supper

hang out with friends and watch movies

go home late

sleep

Wake up at 4:30 with dog whining in my ear.

Wife, 8 month old baby, 4 year old son, cat are still sound asleep in the bed.

I crawl out of bed and sneak out of the room with the dog jumping wildly thinking that we're going for a run.

I explain to the dog that today is a swim day and we won't be running.

He looks pissed and sulks back into the bedroom.

Drive to the pool and swim for an hour and a half incorporating lots of fly and wondering how letsrunners could possibly think swimming is easy.

Get back home and quietly get ready for work.

Right before getting out of the house all the kids, wife, animals are awake and ready to interact.

Ride motorcycle to work trying to break my commute record of 30 minutes for 34 miles (barely miss getting a ticket).

Boot up letsrun.com and see if anything interest me...nothing so go back to page three and resurrect the Phelps is the Greatest Olympian thread.

Work for an hour, check message board for 15 minutes until around 6 pm.

Get home, play Track & Field with the kids (6 year old is usually the Colorado Buffaloes, the 4 year old is the Wisconsin Badgers and I am the Florida State Seminoles) I wait for the last possible moment and then out kick them explaining that they shouldn't have looked back.

Put the kids to bed and try to trick my wife into having sex with me.

Repeat everyday except switch swimming for running with the dog.

I have to admit that it doesn't sound as glamorous when it's typed out...

Hall of Mirrors wrote:

Wake up 2 hours to cat licking my forehead

Throw cat across room

Feed cat

Try to fall back asleep for 2 hours = Me staring at wall/ceiling mind-cursing the cat - wife is dead asleep

Poop

Check email

Run to work thinking it saves time

VERY quick shower at work

Speed walk from the shower half dressed to my cube about 15 minutes late still sweating from my run

Work

Lunch/LR - many crumbs and remnice of "Cheeto fingers" surrounding my mouse/keyboard

Work

Run Home - or maybe drive or bike - pondering the latest LR posts

Eat

Watch Netflix or TV or go do an errand

Continue to watch TV in bed thinking I'll lock the cat out when I get up to turn the TV off

Fall asleep watching TV - cat still in room

repeat

I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!! Especially the first few lines... I was laughing out loud and trying not to choke on my dinner!

"Get home, play Track & Field with the kids (6 year old is usually the Colorado Buffaloes, the 4 year old is the Wisconsin Badgers and I am the Florida State Seminoles) I wait for the last possible moment and then out kick them explaining that they shouldn't have looked back.

Put the kids to bed and try to trick my wife into having sex with me.

Repeat everyday except switch swimming for running with the dog.

I have to admit that it doesn't sound as glamorous when it's typed out..."

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The conclusion to this post cracked me up...That was hilarious...

7AM Hit snooze

7:09 Hit snooze again

7:18 Dog starts barking in next room, get up and throw on anything I can grab to take dog out to do business

7:30 Log onto LR, eat breakfast while trying to get dog to not jump up in my lap

8AM Decide whether knee feels good enough to run, or if not then to bike. Usually end up biking. Dick around on letsrun for another 30 min, go to bathroom.

8:30 Chide self for being so lazy and go out and run(or bike) less than I wanted to.

9:30 Return home, take shower, take dog for another bathroom break.

9:45 Leave for work, 5 minutes late (again)

10:15 Get to work on time, but end up clocking in 5 min late because damn computer is so slow.

1:30 Half hour lunch. Either leftovers from last night or go get some pizza nearby. Read LR while eating.

7PM Leave work, go for short run up at local HS or just go straight home with no run, if knee isn't feeling up to it.

7:30 If not running, go back on letsrun until wife gets finished with work. Fantasize about training on a healthy knee.

8:30 Wife gets home, I start cooking dinner.

9:00 Eat dinner and read LR (wife sits across from me reading e-mail, webcomics, etc)

10:15 Think about going to bed, get distracted by some dumbass pap on LR.

10:45 Think about going to bed, take dog out for another crap.

11:15 Start getting ready for bed.

11:45 Get in bed, both of us are too tired to do anything, fall asleep.

Right now we are at school but not running yet... it looks something like this

7:00 am: Wake up, scratch myself, stare in the mirror for awhile and admire my abs. Walk to the dining hall.

7:15-8:00:Eat, talk about last night's drunken antics

8-9: Stretch, get taped up, sit in the lockerroom and complain.

9-11:30: Morning workout, stretch, ice shower

11:30-12:00: lunch

12:00-4:00: nap, watch movies, snack, read

4:00-6:00 Afternoon workout, shower

6-7: Dinnner

7-9: Hang out with the guys

9:00: Decision time. Go back to the room and read or go get drunk and sleep with a freshman girl. Who knows?? It depends how hard the morning workout is.

I love this time of the year.

7:15 wake, curse self for staying up too late, try to keep eyes open to read

Use desire to check letsrun to force self out of bed

Get online & open 2 browsers one for Letsrun, one for weather, email, mutual funds, espn

shower

get online as above

microwave beans, eat celery & peanut butter

online while eating, wonder how so many people get to be online while at work

8:30 Work - try to act busy as work is slower than ever, & try to resist temptation of getting high from opium laced Starbucks coffee downstairs

5:00 Drive to trail of the day & run 4 miles dead slow, or 6-8 miles fast if doped on Starbucks

Get home, curse my smoke stained apt from previous resident

Check letsrun, defend olympians, Webb, Republicans, all the underdogs.

drag myself to shower/shave

change mind start fixing supper of beans, hamburgers, eggs, tomatos & grapes

more letsrun, maybe a good new thread appeared or someone replied to my defense of the underdogs that wasn't deleted

finally shower

Beer, letsrun & follow along to the Brewers, Cardinals & Cubs online ESPN gamecast as Cubs win by 7 as usual & Brewers win 5th game in a row or lose 5th game in a row. If Brewers lose, get depressed, curse myself for falling so hard for sports. Brewers win - go to bed happy, maybe they'll make the playoffs.

11:00 read & dread going to bed, stay up too late, because when I wake in morning I'll have to go back to work

ickybana5: you're my least favorite poster of all time.

ickybana5 wrote:[/b

I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!! Especially the first few lines... I was laughing out loud and trying not to choke on my dinner!

that wasn't funny. you're just weird.

ickybana5: you're my least favorite poster of all time.

ickybana5 wrote:[/b

I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!! Especially the first few lines... I was laughing out loud and trying not to choke on my dinner!

that wasn't funny. you're just weird.

My wife said I've become a letsrun addict.Uh, at least I think that's what she said.

Summer day of the #1 LetsRun addict (it's not so bad):

Alarm goes off and I mutter "$hit" and hit snooze 3 times.

Roll out of bed, use restroom, drink some water.

Get on computer to check email, Facebook and LetsRun (repeat several times).

Make breakfast, usually cereal with skim milk and sliced banana.

Eat breakfast at computer while reading LetsRun until I look at my watch and realize how late it's getting.

Take a quick shower, get dressed and brush teeth.

Check LetsRun again before leaving house for work.

Think about LetsRun while at work; sometimes bring laptop to lunch.

Go home to find Alan Webb in my kitchen.

Drive Webb back to his hotel.

Go back home to relax and read LetsRun and other running websites for a couple of hours.

Drive out to some trails (unless I'm lazy and just run from house on concrete) and run 4-8 miles or so.

Stop at Starbucks on my way home for iced espresso (need caffeine).

Go home and visit with roommates and whoever else is there.

Read LetsRun some more while working on articles for The Final Sprint.

Walk down the street to track meet where Webb, etc. are running.

Hang out with rojo and film races for LetsRun and Runner Space.

Go out with friends after the meet.

Bar closes at 3am.

Head to Steak 'n Shake where unidentified runner guy almost gets rojo arrested.

Walk 1.5 miles home with friend while we talk about LetsRun.

Check LetsRun one more time (front page updated!) before going to bed (don't worry, no work the next day).

Now that school started again, it's mostly back to class, eat, sleep, run and read LetsRun.

pull up pics of texasrunnergirl and grease up the old pole.