Wendy Mastripolito

Saturday, October 3, 2009 (click on Tussey Mountain title for link to website) ..and the silence..... ..........yes.. but of course silly people..yes I'm doing a 50 mile ultra run... in a week.... now trying to figure out when I will scream mommy.......if you sit around and wait for death...you surely will die...... Course Elevation Chart Total : Leg 1 : Start: 7am Leg #1: Three Bridges, One Leg-Breaker Mileage/degree of difficulty: 3.2 miles; difficult Topography: Mostly gently climbing, with some steep ascents. Projected time: 7:35am Total miles 3 Leg 2 : Leg #2: Down to the Swamp Mileage/degree of difficulty: 4.0 miles; easy Topography: Downhill to level; gravel. Projected time: 8:15-8:21am Total miles 7 Leg 3 : Leg #3: Race to the Beach Mileage/degree of difficulty: 3.8 miles; easy Topography: Fairly flat; gravel and then finishes on paved road. Projected time: 8:55-9:07am Total miles 11 Leg 4 : Leg #4: Three Up, Three Down Mileage/degree of difficulty: 6.2 miles; difficult...

Well, the delay is because I cant seem to catch up on anything this week. After the Marathon extravaganza and the subsequent doctor visit and blood work.. I was given the A-OK… to continue my training and to race last Sunday at the Philadelphia Distance Run (13.1 miles). Although I was excited about racing I was a bit annoyed that I actually had to drive into Philly the day before to pick up my race packet.. nothing like driving down Route 76 and back TWICE in the same weekend.. sure people do it every day to go to work.. but do you see what they look like?.. wild hair.. crazed look in their eyes..??.... yeah.. no thank you.. So after fighting traffic and rolling into center city.. I locate the first convenient parking lot …which by the way is quite a few blocks from where I needed to be.. but at least I am parked.. whew.. DONE.. The nice parking man pointed to this really, really tiny parking spot smack between two vehicles.. I look over and squint my eyes.. hmmm .. he does see the si...

Perhaps it's not loss of blood that is exhausting me.. perhaps it’s just ALL THE FREAKING DRAMA!!!! I had a doctors appointment yesterday in the am.. I needed to get checked out after the marathon fiasco. I was hoping it would be real quick.. he would just prick my finger tell me I needed Iron, give me a RX for some supplements and be done with it.. but alas no.. I am in the waiting room for over 30minutes listening to some man who I swear was one foot in the grave..he came into the waiting room wheeling behind him some sort of contraption… God …I am so lucky to be “healthy” .. As we are waiting.. he starts to gag, I politely ignore… as not to embarrass him… but I do kinda keep an eye on him… although the nurses are like six feet from us… then he starts to make sounds as though he was birthing a giant phlegm ball..the most vile sounds came out of this man.. and I looked at him with great concern.. and he SWITCHED on his machine… which by the way sounded like a high pitched fighter...

WARNING: This note has some graphic wording... sorry but it’s the only way to tell the tale correctly... Type O- ....yeah that’s my blood type and yeah it's what was missing today..... See I planned this marathon training perfectly.. not only did I totally behave and not do ANY races for almost two months (and for someone like me who was used to doing one and sometimes two a week.. this took ALOT of restraint).. I followed a specific training plan that upped my weekly miles to around 45 miles a week and I ate right, carbed right, fueled right, hit all my pacing goals for my training runs.. in fact according to all my training runs and how unbelievably great I felt I was hoping to not only run a 3.50 and qualify for Boston but was even hoping to maybe get a 3.45..... I knew I could do it! What I didn't count on was my monthly “visitor”.. yes my period..... Ok so you say so.. big deal.. well perhaps it would be if I wasn’t bleeding like Mount St. Helens... yesterday I bled so mu...

Friday Organized and efficient.... two great tools for moving....on Friday, Joe reserved a moving truck and I had to pick it up..not a problem except it was rush hour.... and that I .....would be driving ....the big ole truck….. GO… ok.. hello… GO!... I had to basically stand on on the gas to make it lurch forward….damn.. sorry bud.. but if I were you... tiny little car you... I'd move... H-E-L-L-O breaks….I am the shit... and should NOT.. NOT ..NOT... be behind big vehicles!!! 4 miles later... ..WHEW.. home.. done.. ok.. should I back up the driveway?.. giggle.. why not.. Sure… um.. jeez us… (Potty mouth)..um no that didn’t work… Ok, WTF… this truck driving shit is HARD.... ugh I leave the truck in the cul-de-sac….I should have just waved to the neighbors...because I am sure they were watching from their windows with mouths open..... HAVOC..... that girl is just H-A-V-O-C.... Oh and how precious.... the license plate states Oklahoma.. yeah sweet…. Ok.. now to get my vehicle that ...

Not much going on in the drama department… I mean nothing other than the usual mice and snakecapades ... Heather moving out and the house is in total upheaval.... mom is still determined to rally against the "evils" in Washington.... the animals think 4:00 am is the new breakfast time.. and oh yeah we have a marathon in less than two weeks.... other than that nothing really exciting.... So here is the mice and snakecapades story: What a fiasco..I said to Joe I thought I smelled something musty in basement.. he said he didn ’t know.. so I investigate. In the heater room a couple of the sticky bug traps were sprung and it looked like something went to war with them, all sorts of stuff stuck; hair, mice poo, large green tape, you name it was stuck there... I look over to the french drain and see another trap stuck in the drain…. so stuck between the wall and floor… hmm ....I go back upstairs to tell Joe of my findings… I think... perhaps... there may be a mouse in the french d...

I added a separate Blog to document my quest for trying to qualify for Boston, I didn't want to "clutter" up our beautiful blog with training specs... and some of you have asked for just training specs.. so here you go: http://wmastripolitoboston.blogspot.com/ So anyhow I will log all my training and how I feel right up until I qualify... and I WILL qualify (eventually!!) And then I will log up to the actual BOSTON race day. BOSTON OR BUST!!!