Appetite for Good

Sorry for the delay! I’ve started this immediately after the marathon but never had a chance to finish it. Here is the long overdue recap (4 months overdue!) A special thanks to Matsuri and Marwan from Meze Grill for each donating $200 respectively to my marathon cause; I could not have done it without the support from these highly delicious establishments!

The news that no runner wants to hear while they are training for the marathon: a stress fracture in their foot. It’s pretty crazy that up until now in my training, I’ve put my body through crazy stuff like never icing after long runs, drinking water during runs, etc. But all my good fortune has come to an end: I developed a stress fracture of the sesamoid bones in my right foot. How did this happen?

Talk about being super far behind! Let’s play catch up! Total: ~48.4 miles This is, by far, the most mileage compared to any other training weeks!!! The Komen run was a lot of fun! GO TEAM APPETITE FOR GOOD! I even had time during the run to take a silly self picture!

As promised everyone! Back to Back recaps. This will be a double header T-10 and T-9 weeks! It’s like Christmas in September

So first off these two weeks have been pretty funny in retrospect. I decided to cook and when I cook, I always cook a lot of food. The first Sunday (8/22/2010) I went AMBITIOUS. After a long day of work on Sunday, I chose to make 2 gigantic pots of food. My rationale was that this was quick easy and painless. Boy was I wrong….

Riding on Patrick’s marathon fever, I spontaneously decided to run a 5K for charity. 26 miles I cannot do but 3.1 miles I definitely can! For a few weeks leading up to the September 12th Race for the Cure, I stalked the Midtown NYSC. I slowly ramped up to 3 miles on the treadmill, and even added some hills for a more realistic simulation of Central Park on race day. But what the actual 5K was nothing I like expected!

After my long run on Saturday (8/21/2010) with my super cool new phone app, I really wish I could run outside everyday and track it accurately. This is week 2 of my recap! Aren’t y’all excited? What ridiculous things will Patrick eat next?

Megan from Runner’s Kitchen really inspired me to recap my marathon training experience, except she’s good at staying healthy while training. I’m quite the opposite. I like to live vicariously through her and pretend I had a healthy week and trained hard when in reality I’m just pigging out. Kids, please do not try this at home. This is how one should NOT train for a marathon.

Matsuri and Chef Tadashi Ono joins Appetite for Good in raising money for StreetWise Partners, an organization helping low income New Yorkers gain workplace skills and job opportunity. Enter the Appetite for Good give away to win Matsuri gift cards if you support StreetWise Partners’ fundraising campaign!