Month: September 2012

10 Things that Suck about Dating Someone Who’s Training for a Marathon

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1. If you go out with them on Friday nights, be prepared to head home before midnight.

And no matter how many times you explain it, everyone always thinks you’re the reason for leaving early.

2. Any run you go on pales in comparison.

3 miles is impressive, unless you set it next to 20 miles.

3. Say goodbye to sleeping in together on Saturday mornings.

Waking up and knowing your significant other has been running for the past two hours just makes you feel lazy.

4. You have to be seen with them when they’re standing in some awkward and embarrassing position while trying to stretch their hip.

And they don’t even care if it’s in public!

5. If they just decide to go on a morning run and not tell you that they’re going to be gone for 2 hours, you get to wake up, find them missing and freak out until they return.

Oh and spend 2 hours imagining every horrible thing that could have happened to them.

6. They do this every Saturday afternoon.

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But it gives you time to take pictures of them doing it.

Note that Joey approved the publication of this photo.

7. They don’t want to join you in doing anything active for the rest of the day.

Apparently, even walking around the Farmers’ Market for 15 minutes is too much.

8. All.That.Sweat.

Enough said.

9. You have to listen to them complain about everything that’s sore/tight/chaffed for the rest of the day.

And pretend you care.

And when they injure their hamstring, you get to hear hourly updates on their pain level and listen to them complain about not being able to train for two weeks. Boo-freaking-hoo.

10. After the marathon is over.

Numbers l through 9 combined do not amount to the suckiness of having to spend the rest of the day with someone who has just run for 3 and a half hours. They are in pain. They are tired. And they don’t even have the energy to eat back all the calories they just burned! How boring!

All that being said, I wish Joey luck on Saturday morning!

Sidenote: Joey does know that I just like to give him a hard time. And that I’m really super proud of him!

Changing Leaves

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On Saturday night, we made a spontaneous decision to take a drive into the mountains the next morning and see the changing leaves. This is something I talk about wanting to do every year but have never actually done. Now that I’ve seen it, I’m totally kicking myself for wasting the past 23 falls without making a trip like this.

Sure, changing leaves can be seen most places in Colorado (we are lucky enough to have a real fall here), but if you go into the mountains, you can see the colors on such a larger scale and it was truly breathtaking.

The night before, I had said I didn’t want to get out and walk around, I just wanted to drive through but as soon as we came across Kenosha Pass, I totally changed my mind. There was a trail right off the road, so we took a little stroll and I absolutely loved it. The yellow of the trees was brilliant, the air was crisp and the woods were so quiet and peaceful. It was just perfect.

Afterwards, we got back in the car and drove a little further to Boreas Pass, which was just as beautiful. The trees were amazing, but I think our favorite part was when a moose popped out of the trees, almost ran into our car and took off on a sprint in front of us! A MOOSE. I’ve never seen one before and certainly never pictured one sprinting. It’s legs were so awkward!

We left around 7 on Sunday morning and turned around at 10ish, which turned out to be perfect because Kenosha Pass was PACKED when we passed it again on our way home. We were lucky enough to have the trail to ourselves, except for a couple of mountain bikers. I don’t think it would have been the same with a bunch of people around.

So glad that I finally got to do this. And that I had good company. I’m talking about that moose. But Joey was pretty good company too 🙂