The HE Fat Summer Challenge of 2011 13 Miles and a slice of Cheescake!

After a few cocky comments after a 6 mile run a few weeks ago  when I said.   "I can run a half marathon no problem....and I don't even need to train"........(warning don't try this at home).    I was greeted of course with a challenge to do it then......Well this goes against everything I've ever said about half marathons or marathons and how crazy I think they are and how the human body wasn't built to do that.   But sometimes you have to back up your mouth when it runs off and makes cocky comments.    I spent a couple of weeks trying to get some kind of reward for the endeavor  saying "If their is no reward than what is the point?"  I'm not some Japanese game show contestant so I don't compete for just  (The pride of competing)  -- I'm American   --we  compete for prizes.....Whether it is a silly ribbon or a "free" t-shirt , whatever --we need something for our efforts.....

Unable to get my wife to agree to a prize of the kind I was wanting and after a week of 6 mile runs where I kept pumping it up in my mind to just do it already to prove that I could and then talking myself out of it mid run,  I finally decided to just post it and go all in.  So Now I'm pot committed to use another poker term.   13 miles on Saturday the 13th at the beach.   Think of it as this years  Brad's Stud Run Swim Run for Fun.   (Or Brad's  Fun Run for Cheesecake)   The slice of Cheesecake is the award I'm giving myself.   I needed some type of prize .  And I'm getting around the whole  (I'll never do a half marathon thing )  by just doing it myself and not as a part of some organized event where i have to pay  $100 for the chance to run 13 miles....

It will be interesting....I hope I finish....I know the first 10 miles should be no problem....I can run 8 and still feel like I have energy leftover.......It is those last 3 that worry me......Once it is over ---never again will i have to worry about it.    My bragging about how i could do it no problem will be satisfied and  the Cheesecake will be mine!

"UMMMMMMM Cheesecake!"