My roommate... well... lets say that he has a lot of hair... and with a lot of hair... well... lets say that it clogs up the drain over time. My hair, on the other hand, is pretty short, so it doesn't do that much damage. Now taking showers is an important part of both of our lives, and over time, there's a good bit of his hair in the drain. Since it's not my hair... I just let it go and have my roommate deal with the hair. However, instead of throwing it away in the trash, he has this... interesting habit of... putting it on the side of the bath and even on the wall. For the first few months, I surrendered and got toilet paper and took them off. However, this time, I decided that I would do my best to ignore that and let the bath wall grow a beard. It wasn't the best idea ever... but it sure did make the bath a lot more hairier.
To sum it up, it was disgusting.
Little by little, hair clogged up the drains. Little by little, the hair went to the wall. Little by little, my will to 'force' him to clean up the mess was being shaken. It seemed to me like the wall of the bath was changing color because of the amount of hair on it and I'm sure it would have kept going if his girlfriend had not come...
Now I'm not sure who exactly put the hair off, but after his girlfriend got through using the shower, I went in to take mine and lo and behold, there was a white bath tub. It was nice... but I wonder if there was a lesson learned or if it was just a phase.
Whether it be hair, or clothes... or anything else, when things pile up, it doesn't start so bad. It just ends up that way.
Funny thing is... it can be a good thing or a bad thing. When you exercise every day, the little you do each day piles up and makes a big difference over time. When you lay around on the couch and don't do anything... it also makes a big difference over time. Whatever you do, when you make it a part of your lifestyle, it affects who you become.
I'm hoping to add a little bit of mileage to what I do almost daily, and my goal by the end of July is to be able to run a marathon every day for a week. If I'm able to get to that point in my training, I would feel a lot more comfortable with the Leadville 100. Running well in a regional race is completely different than running well in a national race. I'm hoping that I would get myself leveled up to where I need to be to compete with the elite runners and take just a few steps closer to running well.
My goal for Leadville is to get top 20. Looking at last year's time, I need to be able to run a little under 13 minutes per mile. Looking at what I've done in the past week, I believe that currently, I'm right on track to being able to run where I need to in this race. The only factor that I haven't fully been able to calculate is the altitude. I'm not sure how the altitude is going to affect me... but I'm sure it's going to be tough. Hopefully, the next several weeks, I'll be able to exponentially grow and little by little, take myself to the next level... and become a beast.
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