Lonely wife marathoner recounts how she used rage, sexual frustration, cigarettes, and wine to train for her first marat

What she doesn't say is that it was reading the LR message board where her nightmares became reality and drove her to "rage, sexual frustration, cigarettes, and wine to train for her first marathon".

Sounds like the typical marathoner training wise. Yawn.

self-important urbanite runs marathon, thinks everyone want to hear how special she is. yawn.

double yawn wrote:

self-important urbanite runs marathon, thinks everyone want to hear how special she is. yawn.

It's a nominee for the most New York Times story ever.

Does anyone else feel bad for the husband? Guys going to Iraq, and 2004 was a really bad year as I remember, and she's angry at how lonely that makes her?

Thanks for posting, that was an interesting story. I've never read a race report like that before.

double yawn wrote:

self-important urbanite runs marathon, thinks everyone want to hear how special she is. yawn.

^this

Rick Grimes wrote:

Does anyone else feel bad for the husband? Guys going to Iraq, and 2004 was a really bad year as I remember, and she's angry at how lonely that makes her?

he wasn't a combat soldier.. he was a reporter...

i think anger is a legitimate response in her situation

Come on guys in the letsrun office, give us an interesting story.

roadslesstraveled wrote:

Rick Grimes wrote:

Does anyone else feel bad for the husband? Guys going to Iraq, and 2004 was a really bad year as I remember, and she's angry at how lonely that makes her?

he wasn't a combat soldier.. he was a reporter...

i think anger is a legitimate response in her situation

Yea I got that part, but it seemed like she was angry directly at him for having that job and blaming him for doing it.

I don't understand why this is worth of an article. She's representative of the thousands of people who don't train and then ran bad marathons. There's nothing admirable about that. Reminds of me of the 4:02 guy at work who sent out an email to the running mailing list about how he only ran a few times a week and managed to run a 4:02, therefore conventional marathon training is inefficient. Gave me a good laugh but that's about it.

Some lunatic wrote:

double yawn wrote:

self-important urbanite runs marathon, thinks everyone want to hear how special she is. yawn.

^this

^typical lrc poster who is bitter that he runs a ~2:40, which he thinks makes him somebody, (off 120 mi weeks) and nobody gives a shite.

Rick Grimes wrote:

Does anyone else feel bad for the husband? Guys going to Iraq, and 2004 was a really bad year as I remember, and she's angry at how lonely that makes her?

He went to Iraq as a NYTimes reporter.... If he was combat, yet. A reporter? No.

rojo wrote:

Rick Grimes wrote:

Does anyone else feel bad for the husband? Guys going to Iraq, and 2004 was a really bad year as I remember, and she's angry at how lonely that makes her?

He went to Iraq as a NYTimes reporter.... If he was combat, yet. A reporter? No.

Uh ... James Foley .... Steven Sotloff ... Michael Kelly ... Steven Vincent

Over 150 journalists and 54 media staffers killed:

not comparing it to combat, but not necessarily a walk in the park

1:59:58 in our lifetime wrote:

not comparing it to combat, but not necessarily a walk in the park

LOL! I thought it said "wank in the park"!

JAJAJAJA

Um, what was the point of the article?

That you can run approximately 11 min miles for a marathon (just a bit faster than a fast walk) if you train sporadically (actually, several days a week, but sans long runs) and still smoke occasionally?

Ok. If you had asked me before reading this if that would be possible, I am pretty sure I would say "certainly", what's the big deal? But, thanks to this article, I now know for sure that it's possible!

Thanks for sharing, frustrated lady, NYTIMES, and LETSRUN! One's dreams really DO become reality! (if your dreams are of an easy-to-reach nature)

Tyrannosaurus Rexing wrote:Um, what was the point of the article?

Prague was mentioned 7 times, cigarette 8 times, and wine 5 times.

I think the point was to say that she lived in Prague, smoked cigarettes, drank wine and was very urbane and wonderful. Also she ran a marathon.

800 recorder wrote:

Some lunatic wrote:

^this

^typical lrc poster who is bitter that he runs a ~2:40, which he thinks makes him somebody, (off 120 mi weeks) and nobody gives a shite.

I never ran anywhere near that mileage. I ran 2:40 off of an average of 85 to 90 on a daniel's plan. I don't think that makes or entitles me to anything.

NYTyawn wrote:

double yawn wrote:

self-important urbanite runs marathon, thinks everyone want to hear how special she is. yawn.

It's a nominee for the most New York Times story ever.

...que?