Another week [Day562]

I am behind on a post or so, because nothing much (of interesting things) happened in my life. I go to work, I come home, and I get tired, and I sleep. Then I repeat. You can get tired by not doing anything. Also, you can get tired and can’t fall asleep. That is the worst.

The post marathon blue really hits me hard this time around. My last marathon was in May. Someone please help me get out of this, jk.

I don’t know if this is consistently happening every year, but I go through this cycle of being bored, then sign up for races, run them and get bored again.

I ran, I trained, then I now in a phase where I pause. For what? I don’t know. I just don’t feel like doing much.

Sure I want to run more. If only I can go to say the Grand Canyon and do the Rim to Rim to Rim (R2R2R), to run from one side of the canyon to the other side and back. That would be an epic adventure. Why don’t I? Because it is hard!

There are times where I just have the spirit to sit down and take care of all the logistics in one shot. But I hate to make decisions.

How I got the Bay Bridge signed up was my friend was next to me and and kind of telling me what to do. Bay Bridge is one of those big races like the Rim-toRim, but instead we are closing the longest bridge in our area (the Chesapeake Bay). It is about 4 miles long, so it makes a good 10K.

When I was a younging runner a few years back, I dreamed of cross that bridge on foot. I actually did sign up, but lo and behold we have the pandemic and it was canceled or something. I was offerred to run as a virtual event. I received a virtual medal (it was a real one, they sent to me).

Anyway, then I lost interest to do it after I came to run much longer distance. The glamor and novelty kind of worn off.

Here I am again to give it a second go because my friend was thinking of going to do it but reluctant because he wanted to do an ultra the day before (Stone Mill), one which I actually signed up.

I said surely you (or me) could do two events on the same weekend. So it is a new challenge to me. I know I could run a 50 mile and a 10K the next day. It is not even an issue. So I signed up.

What I was going to write though was I had a thought while driving home that most of us can be a one dimension person. I am. I was thinking how light is polarize. In that with certain lense you could filter out its components. I was thinking how some streamers on social media can be so famous such as they get tons of views on their stuff when they post certain subjects. For example, I know some cosplayers, where they get tons of likes in their cosplay postings, but when they become their every-day-self say their game play on twitch, they have no viewers. However, they love doing their less glamorous stuff.

Anyway, I was thinking, like how I like running and posting about running. I don’t know how to write about any other things. But as I was thinking light and EM wave (electro-magnetic) can be polarize, and it dawns on me, when people read my stuff, what if they have a polarized lense on, and I my topic is outside of their interest, I am like the polarised light get filtered out. Anyway, it is fine. It was just an insight while commuting to work.

My life is pretty boring. I was thinking on what to write. Then of course, I write about the topics I like.

Another thing I think is very impactful to me was during my run at the MMT Race. My friend was telling me to make time my friend because time was my enemy/challenge during that race since I was afraid I might get behind on my pace.

Making time my friend is easier said than done. However, it means to me is to make the most of my time. In that race, it means to run smart. Always moving. Always look for ways to cut down the time. It means be faster at the aid stations, be faster getting out, be faster at climbing, be faster at coming down. Run when possible. No waste energy etc. It helps. It carries into life too.

I have been thinking a lot, of what can be done now as whether to do it later. Yes, many times it pushes me forward.

I ended the week with a surprised. I will be taking part in a 50 mile race, called OSS/CIA. It was a race I wanted to do last year or the year earlier. I got to know the race director these last couple years. It is a small world. Last weekend (two weeks ago, and three weeks by the time this is published) I was at the Old Dominion Race. I was cheering for my runner and some of my friends. Alex, was there. I did not connect him to being the RD of the OSS/CIA. He was crewing the second place finisher and some other runners. He knew me, but I didn’t know him. We chatted and such. Lo and behold, tonight we had the pre-race meeting, and he said hello, nice seeing you at the Old Dominion, and I looked closer. It was him! Silly me.

That’s all for now. I don’t get everything solved in my life. Things are hectic. There is no perfect life. I don’t have to. I am just trying to hold onto a tiny piece where I found perfection.

By the way OSS/CIA is hard. They say maybe 50-60 percent will finish. I remembered running that course (same as the Devil Dog), where it takes me 7 hours to do 26 miles. So looking at the course cut off of 13 hours, I will be a bit tight in time.

Oh, note to self, half a year review is near. I need to refocus and get my second half of the year together.