{"id":402,"date":"2008-10-03T03:58:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T03:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buildingcathedrals.com\/2008\/10\/03\/tone-trash-talk-and-thanksgiving-turkey-part-i\/"},"modified":"2008-10-03T03:58:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-03T03:58:00","slug":"tone-trash-talk-and-thanksgiving-turkey-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/buildingcathedrals\/2008\/10\/tone-trash-talk-and-thanksgiving-turkey-part-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Tone, Trash Talk and Thanksgiving Turkey: Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

On November 23, in the Year of our Lord 2008, all the Builders within a 300 mile radius will converge on Red\u2019s beloved city <\/a>of Philadelphia\u2026 Red, B-mama and me to run the Philadelphia Marathon\u2019s 8K race, and MaryAlice to sport a sassy late-pregnancy workout get-up and lipstick, pose for pictures, and cheer on her half-marathoning husband.

Yes. We\u2019re paying a $45 registration fee to run 8 kilometers at 7:15am on a cold November morning around a mediocre city:
(1) To tone our child-laden bodies.
(2) To engage in the type of competitive trash talk that we all enjoyed at one time during athletic careers but have long suppressed in order to be good models for our children. Red and B-mama both were star college athletes. I had some high school glory days and am generally competitive.
(3) To head into the Thanksgiving holiday\u2014which often marks the beginning of the end of healthy habits for the winter\u2014with a solid fitness regimen in place.<\/p>\n

This is a competition. This is not a girlfriends\u2019 trot where we jog three-abreast and dish about fertility cycles and parenting philosophies. There will be a winner.<\/p>\n

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Red currently is running 6 days per week, with three of these runs taking place in the morning before her kids wake up (has she gone mad?), to work up to 8 kilometers a few weeks out from the race. Red was one of those who \u201conly ran to stay in shape for team sports\u201d. See above paragraph: this ain\u2019t no team sport.\n

B-mama is back up and at \u2019em<\/a> after baby J\u2019s birth two months ago, with an eye toward returning to her usual 5+ workouts per week. She\u2019s the college-level distance runner among us. She\u2019s the rabbit, we\u2019re the greyhounds.<\/p>\n

I am opting for the 6 times per week elliptical training program while I nurse some minor back problems, although I run 4-5 miles outside occasionally. Core strengthening and speed will be my goals. Red also tells me there\u2019s prize money for coming in first place city-wide. What\u2019s wrong with dreaming big?<\/p>\n

We will be documenting our progress for the next seven weeks, on Thursday of each week, in a segment entitled Tone, Trash Talk and Thanksgiving Turkey.<\/p>\n

We invite one and all to join us in Philadelphia or to show solidarity by setting some pre-winter fitness goals.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Good luck.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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