Sunday Wrap Up: The (Almost) Perfect Day

Step 1. Wake up without an alarm clock. In Maine.
Step 2. Drink coffee with family and friends. Require a sweatshirt due to cool temperatures.
Step 3. Run 21.3 miles, with no concern for pace, in mid-50 degree weather with no humidity. Climb challenging hills, lap gorgeous marinas, traverse unpaved roads, say "good morning" to every single runner, hiker, dog walker, and biker encountered, and mean it.
Step 4. Eat awesome sandwich...
Step 5. ... And peanut butter chocolate fudge
Step 6. Open a beer
Step 7. Make that, two beers
Step 8. Watch the Giants game

The only way this day could be even more perfect would be if Eli Manning weren't playing like Eli Manning.

Number of Miles Run This Week: 49. I have half a mind to run home from dinner tonight to make it an even 50. And depending on how many more beers I drink, perhaps I will.

Number of Beers Consumed This Week: 4. Last Sunday marked 4 weeks out from my marathon, or the onset of my traditional pre-race dry period. Unfortunately, that would have meant I would have slaved away all week long, staying later and later at the office which each successive night last week so I could well and truly enjoy a week's vacation, only to get here and not really be able to enjoy vacation. Maine has a lot of awesome beer, so not drinking them would have been akin to going to Tuscany and sticking to the Atkins diet. Or just sticking to the Atkins diet in general, because that shit sounds miserable. So anyway, here's what I decided to do: starting last Sunday, I stopped drinking. Upon my arrival in Maine, and until I leave here next Saturday, I shall enjoy beers. Upon my return to New York, I'm going back to Dry Town. So really, it's the same 4 weeks of detox I usually do, only one of those 4 weeks is actually re-tox. It's science.

(Don't question me.)

Types of Beers Consumed This Week: Geary's Pale Ale and Gritty's Red Claw thus far. Contenders for tonight include Andrew's, Shipyard, Allagash... The possibilities are endless.

Number of Crustaceans I Plan to Eat Tonight: 12. Is lobster a carb? Maybe Atkins isn't so bad after all...