T67 - That Little Girl Wore Me Out - Run

Kailua, Hawaii

So apparently it has all come full circle. Trevor did the Honolulu marathon, inspiring him to do the Ironman. I am then inspired to do the Ironman. Then I visit Cousin Jill and now her and her neighbor Claire have been inspired to run Honolulu. Always glad when I can encourage such behavior. Anyway, I was home alone Monday as Eric had to go drive Humvees and Jill was bartending. I looked accross the complex and saw that Claire's door was open, and she too was home alone with nothing to do. Now, given the title of this post, this probably sounds like a lead-in to a hot porno or something, right? Notsomuch. Despite Claire being extremely hot, she is married to a Marine on deployment. But this did not mean I couldn't try and motivate her to start marathon training, right?

Run - 45 minutes

2 Lipodrene
Claire felt it neccessary to preface our run by saying "I haven't run in 4 months, so there's no way I'm gonna keep up." This is the running equivalent of that person who leaves a test saying they totally f-ed it up, and getting a 98%. So I knew I was in for a rough afternoon. I needed to follow her for the route anyway (didn't really know my way around Kailua, nor did I know the local distances) so I told her I'd run at her pace for the first mile (it was a 2 mile down-and-back which I planned to do twice) then go on ahead once I knew my way around.

So we get to the street and she has her iPod on (I have grown to share Trevor's disdain for people who run in groups with iPods on) so I figured that the run would be easy since that gave me the go ahead to bring mine as well. Now, this girl was about all of 5'2", so I knew she would have to run fast to keep up with me and my long strides. And that she did. I mean she just has these short, fast strides like "zipzipzipzipzipzipzipzip," and next thing you know, she's about 50 yards ahead of me. I had to stride it out, and fast to keep up, and by the time we hit the one mile turnaround, she was about 30 seconds ahead. Mildly embarassing, I think.

Same happened on the way back, as she scurried ahead and I had to play catchup for the second mile. She stopped at the 2 mile mark, and I kept going another 2 miles, altohugh the last one was a joke. I was so tired out by keeping this girl's pace that the heat and humidity of Oahu got to me, and I pretty much dogged the last ten minutes. It didn't help the my headphones broke YET AGAIN and my iPod went out to beign Mile 3. Now, I understand that this girl ran half as far as I did, but still. Never fun to get smoked by a girl a foot shorter than you.

It is recovery week, so I'm not going to sweat the very mediocre run. If nothing else it gave me a good story, and hopefully gave Claire some confidence going into her marathon training.