Obligatory Pre-Race Post
I had a counter for the Disney Half Marathon on my iGoogle homepage and deleted it today… I figured once you get to 5 days, you are basically there already. Disney wasn’t really supposed to be a big deal to me, it was a half I decided to do for fun, to get back into long distance running after my marathon injury and an excuse to wear funny ears. Now I find myself picking and prodding at all the things that I could have done wrong with my training. Did I not run enough miles? Cross-train too little? Too much (um, doubt it)?
I wasn’t really focused on the speed part at all, the most important thing to me was being able to go the distance. I remember when 13.1 miles seemed like crossing the Pacific - I also remember when 13.1 miles was just a training run I would fit in before work in the middle of the week.
Next month will be my one year anniversary (October 23rd to be exact) for running. It’s been a rollercoaster of a ride so far… several hundred miles later… and I still have no idea what I’m doing. I have no idea how Disney will go, all I know is that I am far from where I want to be to feel anywhere near ready. I at least felt a glimmer of the endurance distance runner in me come out a bit today. We’ll see if the rest is there in time for Sunday.
