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.