want2runfast wrote:
I'm just questioning you. You say 120-140 miles a week, which is a ton. And work full time. And drink 10-20 beers a night. And be fit. And you don't really stay up late.
You run 120-140 miles a week, cycle to and from work, drink 70-140 beers a week (if its more on weekends, probably 75-150?), hook up with 2 (assuming you meant different) girls a week on average during the summer, something just doesn't add up. I believe you can run, party some, drink some, and hook up some, but the numbers you threw out there have to be inflated. Get real. I mean, I run about 90 miles a week, work full time, and drink on occasion, stay out late on weekends, and personally am pretty stretched. I honestly don't think the numbers you gave us are anywhere reasonable.
It's really simple actually, how I do what I do. On an average weekday, I wake up at 6:30 and run 10 miles which takes ~75 minutes. I do a little core work, make something small for breakfast and cycle to work which takes about 20-30 minutes depending. I get to work around 8:30 at the latest and take a shower at the gym that is in the office building and put on my work attire. I work 9-5 like every other drone in our society. Get home about 5:30, eat something and am usually running by 6:15. Another 10 miles in ~75 minutes and I'm usually back by 7:30ish. A little core and a shower and I'm ready to go. We start most nights with a power hour or some other casual driking and that covers about 6-8 of my beers and gets me in the drinking/drunk mode. We go to the bar and stay for a couple of hours. Usually get home around midnight and I'll make a drunk snack then go to sleep which is usually no later than 12:30 which gets me 6 hours. I have been doing 10 in the morning and 10 at night like clockwork for years. Sundays I go for 20-25, saturdays I usually only go for 1 10-15miler.
Thursday nights are the only weeknights that tend to go late because we sometimes go downtown to a club, but even when we go to the bars, the girls are still out more. We will stay til last call frequently and once in a while I'll take a girl home. Last night I wasn't so lucky. I had a girl lined up but she had a midterm at 9am so she didn't want to come back to my place, I did get her number though. This is all enjoyable to me.
It helps that my job is very easy. I'm in marketing and basically work with numbers all day. But I've always been good at math so the job is not strenuous/stressful at all. I have plenty of time to go on letsrun and such. I also drank 2 beers with lunch today. Trust me, the lifestyle is pretty easy to attain once you become seasoned. It's not like I woke up one morning and decided to start doing this. The mileage buildup, the drinking buildup, and the confidence buildup to get girls all developed over my college years, and are peaking now.