SO... since it has been so long since my last post, I had to ask myself the obvious questions of why, what and how. Why so long? What will be my first post? How can I do better?
I think since the biggest accomplishment of 2014 personally was running and completing a marathon, and running season has begun we can start with a marathon post. I am pretty sure that last season on mile 21 my body along with my brain decided that it was a good idea to NEVER do this 26.2 miler thing again, EVER! Well, running season has started, and we are about 1.5 months into training and 10 miles in. Not sure what ever happened to that discussion at 21 miles last January. Oh yea, we completely forgot!
So briefly I just want to re-cap last year's race. I actually wrote this last year.
On training:
Life continues, running continues, and the only way to fit those two together is to lose sleep, get your run in early and go on with life. 3:45 AM my friends every Saturday morning is really early! That means no glass of wine the night before to kick off the weekend (with two little kids I kinda need wine) , and probably not too much fun Saturday night because I don't know about you, but after a 21 miler and getting up at 3:45 I am really tired and frankly look and feel like....well you can fill in the blank.
On my partner:
I have to say that 23-24 mile mark was the hardest mile of the entire race. I wanted to hit 24, because I knew that meant 2 miles left, but it felt like that 24 marker would NEVER come. At this point, Jenny was really helping me to finish. I was hurting all over, and I remember thinking I never want to feel this way again. I tried SO hard to think happy thoughts or concentrate on something else like my music, but all I could think about was how bad I hurt! I not only was hurting, but I was nauseated...extremely nauseated. At this point in downtown, less than a mile to go I just wanted to stop...then I looked over and saw a lady laying on the ground with medics and I thought to myself she is so close yet she is not going to finish. After I crossed the finish line, I stopped and just fought back tears. Remember that nausea bit? Yea, well on the way home going 70 on 10, I puked out the window. Let me just tell you, if you have never done that it is an experience for ALL involved! I coated our car in gatoraid and water, probably some one elses, and gave Scott's hair a slight bath too. Yea....this happened. I have never puked during or after a workout in my life!!
Time:
4:19 finish time.
This year is still all about running, but with a different goal in mind and that is TIME. We have really improved our training times already and we hope to continue to do so over the next 4-5 months! Wish us luck. Our goal is 4:00, but anything in the 3:50 something would be fun to achieve! I know Jennie would agree.
XOXO,