Mike's Marathon Blog

I’m so exhausted from work and my crazy weekends, I have no idea how I’m going to start training for another marathon. Today was my first day of training for NYC. It was rough. Since I haven’t blogged in awhile, let me rewind before we jump into today. Blog posts will be more frequent, I promise. Our new laptop is in, so I can now blog while watching Netflix movies.

Last weekend I went on an 8.5 mile, 3,900 foot elevated hike up Baldface Mountain. I’ll run 26 miles, I’ll ride my bike 50 miles, but walking in the woods for 4 hours isn’t exactly my go-to activity. I don’t get it. I understand if you’re a city person or don’t live in this area because the view at the top must be spectacular to people who stare at skyscrapers or fields all day. But we live here! I see mountains and trees and frigin granite all the time. Maybe I need to go on a few more to understand. I would like to hike Mount Washington at some point. We live right next to it. There’s no excuse for not hiking it.

Oh and did I mention I stayed in a house with my wife’s family? Not her immediate family…….her entire family! 20 family-in-laws running around like wild maniacs. Ages ranging from 8 to 80. Crazy levels ranging from 1 to a million.

I did get to spend the weekend in North Conway, which is arguably my favorite spot on earth. Don’t get me wrong, I love a relaxing island from time to time, but North Conway is right up the road! It offers something for every season and there is plenty to do whether you’re on a family vaca or relaxing with your significant other. Free plug for NoCo.

This weekend was supposed to be one of those nice, relaxing getaways with my significant other. We had been planning a 3-day weekend at a luxurious spa in Bar Harbor for weeks. Unfortunately, Jack decided to purchase a half squirrel, half barking rodent a few years back and since we had no place to bring her this weekend, she joined us. I never, ever thought I would see the day when I stayed in a pet-friendly hotel room. Good-bye Bar Harbor, hello Laconia.

Has anyone ever been in a pet-friendly hotel room? At Lake Winnipesauke? Next to an airport? No? This is how our Thursday night played out: checked into the hotel, saw our room, canceled our 3rd night (the first 2 were non-refundable, otherwise we obviously would have canceled those as well), went to dinner, got ice cream, purchased 2 sleeping bags at Walmart, went to sleep. I actually slept in a sleeping bag on a pet-friendly mattress, in a pet-friendly room with a dog in my sleeping bag!

To be continued…….