I'll be running the Capital 10K this Sunday, April 3rd. I figure I've smoked about 21,400 cigarettes since I started smoking. At my peak, I could run a mile in about 5 minutes. Now, I can run a mile in about 7. That means that every cigarette I've smoked has reduced my mile time by 0.0056 seconds. Not bad. That's not even taking into account the fact that I don't train nearly as hard as I once did or the fact that I've simply aged.
The fact that I continue to smoke and run distance races is further evidence of my curse. I'm an unhealthy future emphysemic fat-ass trapped in an ambitious man's body.
Ho-hum. Here's to self-inflicted suffering through strenuous exercise and guilt free super huge breakfasts afterwards. Can you say Omeletry?
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