my FB status: 6 days, 100 miles, 101 beers. Tomorrow is lagniappe.
i'm going to sleep a lot, run about 10 miles, drink a lot of water, then head to a bar. then i'm taking off until jan 1st. i will drink all day that day because LSU plays at 10AM pacific time and there are football games all day.
tomorrow or the next day i will give a rundown of the week.
Recover my friend, you did well the preceding days
I would assume that the 101 beers was harder than the 100 miles.
Am I correct in my assumption?
i stopped in real quick to check this before heading out for an easy 10 and am shocked to see it on the front page! call me a dork, but i get a kick out of it.
thanks to whomever told the brojos about it, thanks to the brojos (or employee #1) for putting it up, thanks to ziggy stardust and urxc for completing and chronicling this feat, and major props to andy holden and his running/drinking prowess. thanks to the folks on here for the ecouragement. the internet is truly an interesting animal.
as i mentioned in my OP, my two-plus year relationship to the girl i thought i was going to marry ended right as my break from school started. i had been kicking this idea around, but once that happened i knew i had to do something kind of crazy to get some restlessness (recklessness?) out of my system. the last time i broke up with a girl, i went on a long road trip around the west (6800 miles in 3 weeks) and just lived inside my head for a little while, refocusing myself. that was the plan with this, every mile i ran was solo, every beer i drank was solo, i spent some time on the internet updating (was also updating on facebook as well), but mostly i just thought about the past couple of years (which were great), the end of a good thing (she started law school), and where i'm headed now. i know it sounds crazy, but it actually worked. i'm ready to get back to the basics: eat, sleep, run, work, study.
yesterday's run of 8.8 miles on leif erikson was truly one of the most amazing runs i have ever done. i ran slow (for me), over 7:00 pace and never checked my watch (which is also rare). i was just out there to enjoy the ability that i have to move. throughout the run i reflected on just about everything and came to the realization that if i can push myself to run 100 miles and drink 100 beers in just 6 days there's probably not a lot i can't push myself through. it's just a matter of knowing, here is point A, here is point Z, here is the plan - the rest is up to you. the solo bicentennial was truly the personal reflection that i wanted to have, i believe i got out of it what i wanted to.
the 101 beers was pretty tough because i don't drink very quickly, just very steady. during the week it seemed like i was drinking a beer every 20-30 mins, which meant that on the nights i drank 24 i didn't get to bed until 4AM or a little later. last night i was updating my facebook status with the final countdown and i think i was drinking the jubelales a little faster, 15-20 min. either way, i wasn't chugging beers because that's a surefire way to make me puke. wednesday and friday were the mornings after 24 and they hurt pretty good, i've had worse hangovers, but not since my college days so i wasn't ready for them. thankfully i have several water bottles that i kept stocked. another hard part was that if i drank too much water i wouldn't have any room for beer, so i'd be willing to bet i'm probably pretty dehydrated. toward the end of the week i could feel my resting HR elevating, i never checked it but it felt like it was in the 80s, when it's usually in the high 40s/low 50s. one thing i wish i had was a scale, i'm interested to see if gained any weight or not. again, it doesn't feel like i have, but i don't know for sure. honestly, i haven't weighed myself in over a year.
so the obvious question is; what's next? well, winter quarter starts jan 4th, so not much. of course the tricentennial has crossed my mind and 10 miles/10 pints also, but i would need some support crew for those endeavors. all that's coming up for me is a trip to whole foods to use some of the gift cards i got for christmas to detox! i have to get back to working out as well, which i'm sure will be a lot of fun. the 300s i ran thursday were encouraging, i thought i was going to be more stale than i was. oh and moving, which sucks. i hate moving. i wish i still had my truck with the camper top. at least now i get a chance to go through all my stuff and really get back to basics.
i hope everyone had a good holiday, thanks for following along virtually.
good job. chiropractic is a crock science though. consider pursuing a legitimate allied health profession like physical therapy instead
also watch this video by anesthesiologist, Bill Kinsinger, MD
http://ph-ms.ouhsc.edu/ah/rehab/kinsinger.wmv
(link from the Univ. of Oklahoma Rehab Sciences Department)
according to my running log on flotrack i averaged 6:45 the whole week.ran 8 today just to get some sweat going, then stuffed my face and am enjoying some grape juice for a change of pace.i highly doubt i'll consume any more beers.
v dawg wrote:
good job. chiropractic is a crock science though. consider pursuing a legitimate allied health profession like physical therapy instead
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=615728
when i strained my back every person i went to, and i saw every type health professional, said it was my hamstring. i spent a month treating my hamstring without any signs of improvement. the chiro i saw was the only person who even asked about my back.
when i was trying to decide between PT or chiro, every PT i attempted to talk to (over 15) either ignored me or was very rude in telling me they didn't have time to have someone shadow them. every chiro (again, over 15, lots of chiros in portland) was very welcoming and generally much more pleasant to deal with.
chiros aren't curing cancer or curing AIDS anytime, but i know that mine sure as hell helped my back feel better. also, i don't have to see one anymore. one MD who was obviously stymied about my injury actually told me there was a chance i'd have to take painkillers and never run for the rest of my life.
so if chiros aren't legitimate, then how did i get legitimately cured?
wolfman, you are an inspiration to us all.
good luck with your apartment situation and future education. you've helped many of us realize that anything in life is possible.
running is better wrote:
my FB status: 6 days, 100 miles, 101 beers. Tomorrow is lagniappe.
i'm going to sleep a lot, run about 10 miles, drink a lot of water, then head to a bar. then i'm taking off until jan 1st. i will drink all day that day because LSU plays at 10AM pacific time and there are football games all day.
tomorrow or the next day i will give a rundown of the week.
Lasse, why do you have to drink to have fun? haha
Awesome, thanks for sharing the whole experiance with us and good luck to you
3200guy wrote:
Lasse, why do you have to drink to have fun? haha
you got it backwards. i don't drink to have fun, i have fun to drink.
running is better wrote:
so if chiros aren't legitimate, then how did i get legitimately cured?
maybe chance....maybe the chiro you saw was one of the few that uses evidence based modalities....
there are chiros who do good therapy within the FIELD of chiropractic, which happens to be built on a shoddy foundation that lacks the validation of science....sounds like the guy you went to isn't one of the ones who claims to be able to solve all type of disorders through subluxation
just check out those links i posted and do more research about the field and how your prospects will loook if you go through with it.
just a recommendation.
running is better wrote:
3200guy wrote:Lasse, why do you have to drink to have fun? haha
you got it backwards. i don't drink to have fun, i have fun to drink.
So inebriation alone is enjoyable to you, not the loosening up or relaxing effect? This might not be the best idea if you have access to a computer during this time. You've already seen what the effects of drinking and posting are.
Well I'll probably get blasted (or deleted, since this is now on the front page), but this guy sounds like a loser.
Let's talk Andrew City-in-Texas-that's-not-Dallas (there, I censored your name...but it's pretty easy to figure out). So you want to run sub-1:10? Why drink yourself into oblivion. Oh, it's because some girl left you and you're all alone on Christmas. That's a pathetic reason to drink. I don't understand why everyone thinks you're a hero. What you're doing is neither cool nor unique, but if your life goal was to get on the front page of LR, good on you. Your life sounds awesome, what with the credit checks and bagging on the homeless and whatnot. Killer.
Whatever, I feel dumber for reading the last three pages. Good luck to you man. Hope you don't fail out of chrio school. Your 3.0 (I hope not at a JC) doesn't bode well. Didn't you take your prereqs at LSU? Oh, let me guess, you spent the last few years "finding" yourself.
Why are you so unhappy with your own life that you need to rip on him so hard?
really now? wrote:
Well I'll probably get blasted (or deleted, since this is now on the front page), but this guy sounds like a loser.
Let's talk Andrew City-in-Texas-that's-not-Dallas (there, I censored your name...but it's pretty easy to figure out). So you want to run sub-1:10? Why drink yourself into oblivion. Oh, it's because some girl left you and you're all alone on Christmas. That's a pathetic reason to drink. I don't understand why everyone thinks you're a hero. What you're doing is neither cool nor unique, but if your life goal was to get on the front page of LR, good on you. Your life sounds awesome, what with the credit checks and bagging on the homeless and whatnot. Killer.
Whatever, I feel dumber for reading the last three pages. Good luck to you man. Hope you don't fail out of chrio school. Your 3.0 (I hope not at a JC) doesn't bode well. Didn't you take your prereqs at LSU? Oh, let me guess, you spent the last few years "finding" yourself.
You sound gay. Why is your goal to rip some guy online? If you disagree, cool, but don't bring down this guy on his own thread. If you weren't interested you wouldn't have read all three pages. This man has just accomplished a personal goal of his and in my mind that is one of the most noble things this world has to offer. He didn't ask you what he thought. This man is a drinking and running legend, but most importantly he is satisfied with himself by finishing something that he started, no matter the consequences.
really now? wrote:
Well I'll probably get blasted (or deleted, since this is now on the front page), but this guy sounds like a loser.
Let's talk Andrew City-in-Texas-that's-not-Dallas (there, I censored your name...but it's pretty easy to figure out). So you want to run sub-1:10? Why drink yourself into oblivion. Oh, it's because some girl left you and you're all alone on Christmas. That's a pathetic reason to drink. I don't understand why everyone thinks you're a hero. What you're doing is neither cool nor unique, but if your life goal was to get on the front page of LR, good on you. Your life sounds awesome, what with the credit checks and bagging on the homeless and whatnot. Killer.
Whatever, I feel dumber for reading the last three pages. Good luck to you man. Hope you don't fail out of chrio school. Your 3.0 (I hope not at a JC) doesn't bode well. Didn't you take your prereqs at LSU? Oh, let me guess, you spent the last few years "finding" yourself.
Wow, you're a big man, tearing another guy down on an anonymous message board.
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OP, good luck at chiro school. I had a groin problem that my PT was simply making worse, and I had cross country bearing down on me in only a few weeks. I saw a chiropractor certified in ART, and in a few sessions, I was back! It was great. Loved the thread, best of luck to you in your future endeavors. Also, what's the "tricentenial"? 100mi, 100 beers, 100 ???
really now? wrote:
Well I'll probably get blasted (or deleted, since this is now on the front page), but this guy sounds like a loser.
Let's talk Andrew City-in-Texas-that's-not-Dallas (there, I censored your name...but it's pretty easy to figure out). So you want to run sub-1:10? Why drink yourself into oblivion. Oh, it's because some girl left you and you're all alone on Christmas. That's a pathetic reason to drink. I don't understand why everyone thinks you're a hero. What you're doing is neither cool nor unique, but if your life goal was to get on the front page of LR, good on you. Your life sounds awesome, what with the credit checks and bagging on the homeless and whatnot. Killer.
Whatever, I feel dumber for reading the last three pages. Good luck to you man. Hope you don't fail out of chrio school. Your 3.0 (I hope not at a JC) doesn't bode well. Didn't you take your prereqs at LSU? Oh, let me guess, you spent the last few years "finding" yourself.
i'm amazed you took this long to show up.
if you're this offended by a choice that i've made that most likely doesn't affect you personally, perhaps you should check your priorities.
but then telling people how to live their lives your anonymous arena.
oops....last sentence should read:
"but then telling people how to live their lives IS your anonymous arena."
my new year's resolution is to proofread.
really now? wrote:
Well I'll probably get blasted (or deleted, since this is now on the front page), but this guy sounds like a loser.
Let's talk Andrew City-in-Texas-that's-not-Dallas (there, I censored your name...but it's pretty easy to figure out). So you want to run sub-1:10? Why drink yourself into oblivion.
just thought i'd let you know i ran 69:24 at the mardi gras half on 2/28/10, placing 13th overall, 11th among men. (kim smith and berhane adere were the two women who beat me.)