Final stretch
I haven’t completed the blogroll from the weekend’s long run, but if anyone got up on Saturday to run in that muck and nastiness, any performance was a manly performance. I’m anxious to see how it all went, because, as you can guess, I slept through most of the period when ya’ll were running. And as I woke up from my second nap of the morning I commentedo my lovely wife “most of them should be done with the 21 miler by now… I bet they’ll be glad to get back to the car”. Then I went and had a snack.
For exercise, I did chop a little wood in the back yard. I call that cross training.
But alas, we’re in the final stretch… less than a month to go.
I have maybe 1 more “long” run scheduled for roughly 10 miles on Christmas weekend if I can find a route and the time to do it.
I’m at the point where I don’t think there’s anything I can do to really help my chances, but there’s plenty I can do to hurt them. I’m not sure how much I was really faltering at the end of the 30k run and how much was just my brain getting in the way of my body running. Can another 8 miles materialize in less than a month? Can I finally convince myself to just run and quit looking at the mile markers? Can I get past the mental barriers?
Yes. Duh.
But can I do it by January 15? That’s the real question. Of course it can be done… people do these things all the time. But can it be done by me next month? I say yes. It has to be done… I’m not going to have time to train for a marathon next year.
The longest distance remains not on the pavement, but in my mind. The will to train trumps the will to finish. Run fatty, run!
3 Comments:
Yes, I was quite manly on Saturday morning. :)
I haven't done a real run for 7 whole days!!! I'm feeling like a slug!! So far my longest is 7 miles and the half is in 28 days! I'll be ready!
I'm training for the half, but saw pics from our group's 21-miler on Saturday. Crazy people out there not only running...but in shorts...and a couple of the guys were shirtless! Insane.
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