With one official marathon behind me, one just around the corner, and a couple unofficial ones under my belt, I’ve started to think about my options for the future. More marathons, of course, but what else? Then I remembered reading about 50 mile races. Sounds crazy, right? Yeah, until I remembered that there was a time when a marathon sounded crazy, back when running 10 miles on a regular basis was tough. Now I’m doing twice that, so a race that’s a bit less than twice that doesn’t seem too impossible anymore. Really really difficult, yeah, but not impossible.

Or there’s the possibility of running an Iron Man someday. To do that, of course, I’d have to start with triathlons. Olympic triathlons are about 1 mile swimming, 25 miles biking, and a tad over 6 miles running. Only problem would be the swimming at this point. Going from that to a full Iron Man (2.4 mile swim, 112 mile ride, and a marathon run) sounds crazy at first, but again, so did a marathon… Plus, swimming indoors would keep me out of the cold weather. Just saying. We’ll see.