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Back to Journal  « Submission 257 | Marathon Training Week 9 of 26: Twelve Miles! | Submission 258 » Marathon Training Week 9 of 26: Twelve Miles! February 12, 2006 Early in the week I worried I'd have to postpone the marathon; the bottoms of my feet still hurt as late as Tuesday and this worsening of my insomnia just wasn't a good mix with the beating my body was taking. But the sleep improved just in time and my feet were okay after I took an additional day off of my weekday runs. Which brings me to today. More than two and a half hours of interval running on the Tobacco Trail again. And of course I'm tired and sore again. But next sunday is a "week off" where I go for "only" six miles, thus giving my body some extra time to recuperate. Hard to believe that six miles, which truly punished my body just a month ago, is now considered taking it easy for a long run. It was my first solo long run today, so I loaded up my player with a few podcasts I'm running behind on like The Ricky Gervais Show, Jason Lundberg's Lies and Little Deaths, The Naked Scientists and the new TMBG Podcast. I also listened for the first time to two excellent shows by local writer Mur Lafferty. I'd heard her Escape Pod story last month, but it was a link in Jason's journal that made me realize she was a local and something of a podcasting pioneer. Too many great podcasts out there to listen to them all, which I guess is a good problem to have. I may be able to fit in more books by learning speed reading, but, since podcasts play at a fixed speed, there's a finite number of them I can fit in my schedule, no matter how much I improve my listening skills. Anyway, my feet don't hurt as much as they did last Sunday night. I may make this marathon yet. |
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Alex Wilson writes fiction and comics in Carrboro, NC. His work has appeared/will appear in Asimov's Science Fiction, The Rambler, Weird Tales, The Florida Review, Futurismic, Shimmer, ChiZine, FutureQuake, Pif, and Dragon. Locus Magazine has called him a "promising new writer," and Publishers Weekly also has nice things to say. Alex runs the audiobook project/podcast Telltale Weekly and the writer wiki Guidevines. He publishes the minicomic/zine Inconsequential Art. He is a 2006 Clarion graduate.  
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