Excellent posts!
My body indeed feels like shit, but like I said in my blog, on a normal day I don't think it is much of a problem or necessarily that difficult. In the long string of days is where it will be difficult.
In response to me forgetting I had to do this. You definitely misread what I wrote. I didn't say I forgot that I had to do this. That would be insane, I absolutely dread it all day now, and think about it all the time. The last thing I want to do after being active and on my feet all day for 8 hours at work, doing a morning run, and doing an evening run, is run a hard mile. I just want to finish my run with a hot shower and a cold beer, believe me. So no, I didn't forget. Today was the first time in Maryland that I have run with someone in over a month....think about it, I am running over 100 miles per week and have no one to talk to at all...so needless to say we we having a good running conversation about: guns, cars, sex, drinking....running. So for a brief instant I was having a normal run and then realized it wasn't a normal run and that I was running a hard mile following it. To which Jerry, replied oh yea, I forgot, which is understandable since he just found out about it this evening.
Secondly, the camera idea. I wanted him to at least take a picture. When we passed by my house at about 60 minutes I grabbed my Manhattan jersey off the outside doorknob to put on as we continued the rest of our run. I asked Jerry to take a pic, and he said he had a video camera in his car and it would be a good idea to film it. So that was completely impromptu.
I really enjoy the criticism as well as the praise. I am trying to the best I can to depict the courses, how I truly feel physically and mentally in a stream of consciousness manner.