Sunday, April 02, 2006

Answer: Two Hours and Twenty Minutes

Question: What is, How long does it take the sophist to run a Half Marathon with a sprained ankle?

That is correct.

Points of interest. By mile 8 i was so hungry, i briefly considered eating a cat i saw wonder onto the course. Something was amiss in my race prep, because though i've never felt this hunger while training, my stomach was screaming for food during the race. I think a snickers bar would have shaved 10 minutes oiff my time.

My ankle was a distraction by mile 10ish.

The next step was supposed to be, well, run the full damn thing. I'm not so sure i'm convinced that devoting my entire physical prowess to running 26 miles is a good idea. I think for now i'll stick with 13 as my maximum distance of hustled foot travel, and i'll work on that time.




should've eaten more bananas and left my red hat at home.

3 comments:

Notorious said...

Nice work... By distraction, you mean what?

amateur.sophist said...

by distraction, i mean, imagine you're running north and there's a girl just behind you in a t-shirt three sizes too small and no bra and she's running north also, but every time you try to slow down and let her catch up, she slows down a little bit too.

you keep slowing down but the prize is always just out of sight.

yeah, that's pretty much the perfect analogy.

Notorious said...

Ouff!

so by distraction... you mean all consuming!