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No Turkey Trot Run for Me

11/28/2019

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Turkey Trot 2018

If I signed up for a Turkey Trot this year, maybe I could replace this void with impostor syndrome.  Instead, I opted to make dinner.

I didn't sign up for a Turkey Trot this year -- no big deal.

In October 2013, I went from looking at running as something that maniacs do for shits and giggles to something that I love and hate equally.  I don't have a runner's background like some of my counterparts.  In fact, I was the girl who grew up not knowing how to ride a bike, swim, never received formal lessons on double dutch (even though in seventh grade, a few girls taught me on the fly and I could only jump for speed) and don't even ask about makeup or hair.  I watched boxing with my father with my dad when the other girls didn't think it was cool.  Football was my jam for a bit until I realized a lot of people were fanatics and would end friendships over sports.  And in ways, I revisit that feeling with running these days, pushing me to be an extroverted loner more than I care to admit.  2013 - 2018 me was psyched for a Turkey Trot Run.  I would recruit every friend and drag my son and husband to the race; this year my mother and sister asked me to cook and it was the most normal thing I did all year. 

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Unfuck Your Wiring: How to Become an Athlete

11/20/2019

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If no forms of social or mainstream media existed, I think we wouldn't look for imagery of an athlete; we would just be one.

I haven't left my home since the NYRR 60K.  Yesterday, I managed to get dressed for the gym, walked to my front door and turned back around.  I curled up with a bowl of cereal, watched a video and felt like a failure.  After two anxiety attacks between 6PM and 6AM​, I practiced a failed attempt of corpse pose without yoga until 10AM -- thank you freelancing.  Every time I go through an episode, I remind myself to question what triggered the anxiety.  This time I allowed a bunch of insecure fuckers to make me question if I have what it takes to be an athlete.  Typically I don't dwell on those things but I do acknowledge when the noise grows.  I can usually link it to a source; this incident stemmed from my last two posts since returning back to this space.  A few minutes ago, I made myself a glass of shut the fuck up to go with my coffee and thought out loud: What exactly is an athlete.  If you can tolerate some non politically correct commentary, grab a bottle of Tequila and take a shot with me.
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How to Run a 60K with Sciatica: A Horror Story

11/18/2019

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Photo Credit: Maria F. Solis

By mile 16, I wrote an irrational list of things I hated which included cold air touching my face and the person who made me laugh leading me to pee lightly on myself. 

Any person who reads enough ramblings from me will notice that I love running no more than 4 times a week.  On the fifth day, I want to murder everything moving.  Despite it all, I find myself signing up for races at 2AM like I'm on QVC because that's how I avoid midnight snacks these days.  I'm almost certain this is how I signed up for the New York Road Runners' Knickerbocker 60K.  Somehow I managed to develop amnesia for the third time and thought running 37.2 miles two weeks after the New York City Marathon was a GREAT idea.  If I could complete my first 100K last year six days before the NYC Marathon and do this race two weeks after, what could possibly go wrong this year?  Every. Single. Thing.  
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How to Gracefully DNF Races

11/15/2019

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Most people sign up for races with a 90 percent certainty that they will finish; I'm not most people.

If it feels like it's been a long time since I've wrote anything consistent here, that would be painfully accurate.  There's not one particular reason that I can give you but I can throw out a few:
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  1. My 2019 schedule was built for an endurance nutter like me;
  2. I underestimated how busy I'd be as a full time sponsored athlete;
  3. Shitty comments from random fuckers I don't know on the internet made me reevaluate posting regular updates on here -- or anywhere.

Through one on one interactions with people in the running community and with loved ones reminded me about the reasons why I constructed this crazy website Running Fat Chef and it damn sure wasn't for internet fame.  I truly love blurbing about the highs, lows, unstable moments and adventure that comes with fitness, particularly running.  By having a honest heart to heart with myself, I buried myself under a blanket, wrote down a list with my insecurities, rolled it into a shape of a blunt and decided to say "fuck all of that shit-- I'm writing again."  

With that said, let's talk about my 2019 highs and lows before the year is out -- and let's start with my DNFs.
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