So . . .I want to train for another half marathon. The thoughts started creeping slowly, but I've been sucked in like an addict. It started about a month ago when I was driving home from work and covered some of the course (as I do most every day). I just started thinking "Man, I wonder if I'll do this again. I know I could do better." Then, a week later, I noticed I was saying "when I run another half," not "if I run another half." Then I started getting emails about the fall training group. And just like that, I'm a goner. I will not be training for a half this fall, unfortunately (??), but I wish I was (at least in theory).
I can't say I'm disappointed in my Pig time (dismal as it was), but I do think I could do better, and I want to try. Between missing the last 2 weeks of training due to injury, then getting the mother of all blisters during the race, by those last 3 miles my 77 year old grandma could have shuffled along faster than I could go. Since it was my first half, my only goal was to finish. Yeah, in the back of my mind I had a time I would have liked to have beat, but once I got injured and wasn't even sure I'd get to race at all, that went out the window. I felt (feel) happy just to have been able to finish.
Besides all that, I love the running group. I've gotten to know so many fantastic people, and I just really love the sense of comraderie. Plus, I'm not much of a go-getter in the working out department. I need something like a group to hold me accountable and to motivate me. Oh and to help me pace myself. I still royally suck at that.
With all that being said, I'll be sitting the fall marathon season out. First, Kyle's work schedule does not jive with the training group schedule, and it was a major PITA all around for my parents to watch Logan those 4 months I trained for the Pig. Second, I cannot run when it's hot as balls out. Give me those subzero January temps anytime. Third, I didn't realize training already started a month ago.
Even though I won't be going 13.1 this fall, I don't see this year's Pig being my last half. Which is definitely not something I could have said until recently.
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