Before my surgery I was training for a half marathon. The Woodrow Wilson Bridge Half Marathon which was held in October.
It’s a very cool bridge and I ran over it once before. But the surgery preempted the race. I did my last long run the Saturday before the surgery – it was a 12 mile run.
Now I’m back in training for another half marathon. I haven’t actually registered for one because I wasn’t sure if I could really do it, and then when I finally decided that maybe I could do it, the one I was thinking of doing sold out (the Rock n Roll Washington DC Half Marathon).
However, I am registered for the Cherry Blossom 10 miler which is April 1st.
This is when I ran it in 2010.
But up until last week I still wasn’t sure I could do a half marathon. Two weeks ago I ran 10 miles, and a half is only 3.1 miles more (only!). But today’s distance on the training schedule was 12.5 miles, and I was dubious. Ten minutes before I was going to leave the house this morning to drive to Virginia to meet the running group, I got an email that the run was canceled due to expected bad weather (it’s 12:23pm and I still don’t see the bad weather). I was already dressed to run, so I waited for the sun to come up and went over to the C&O Canal Towpath and…..
ran 12 miles! (I ignored that other 1/2 mile that was on the schedule). All by my lonesome. My ipod battery died with one and half miles to go, and during the last mile I just wanted to sit down in the mud and cry. (Yes, it was muddy, and no, not tears of happiness, tears of misery.)
Dirt trail + previous night’s rain = mud
It has been 5 months and 2 days since my surgery and I am back to where I was in mileage. As a matter of fact, my pace in today’s run was 32 seconds per mile faster than the run in August.
So now I totally, absolutely think I can run a half marathon and I just have to find one. There is one I am looking at in Howard County, MD, but it is a very small race and the downside to a small race is that I could come in last. The more people running, the greater the chance that someone else will be last. I know I am slow, and I finish at the back, but to be the very last runner? Well, I guess someone has to be last.
Before my surgery I was training for a half marathon. The Woodrow Wilson Bridge Half Marathon which was held in October.
It’s a very cool bridge and I ran over it once before. But the surgery preempted the race. I did my last long run the Saturday before the surgery – it was a 12 mile run.
Now I’m back in training for another half marathon. I haven’t actually registered for one because I wasn’t sure if I could really do it, and then when I finally decided that maybe I could do it, the one I was thinking of doing sold out (the Rock n Roll Washington DC Half Marathon).
However, I am registered for the Cherry Blossom 10 miler which is April 1st.
This is when I ran it in 2010.
But up until last week I still wasn’t sure I could do a half marathon. Two weeks ago I ran 10 miles, and a half is only 3.1 miles more (only!). But today’s distance on the training schedule was 12.5 miles, and I was dubious. Ten minutes before I was going to leave the house this morning to drive to Virginia to meet the running group, I got an email that the run was canceled due to expected bad weather (it’s 12:23pm and I still don’t see the bad weather). I was already dressed to run, so I waited for the sun to come up and went over to the C&O Canal Towpath and…..
ran 12 miles! (I ignored that other 1/2 mile that was on the schedule). All by my lonesome. My ipod battery died with one and half miles to go, and during the last mile I just wanted to sit down in the mud and cry. (Yes, it was muddy, and no, not tears of happiness, tears of misery.)
Dirt trail + previous night’s rain = mud
It has been 5 months and 2 days since my surgery and I am back to where I was in mileage. As a matter of fact, my pace in today’s run was 32 seconds per mile faster than the run in August.
So now I totally, absolutely think I can run a half marathon and I just have to find one. There is one I am looking at in Howard County, MD, but it is a very small race and the downside to a small race is that I could come in last. The more people running, the greater the chance that someone else will be last. I know I am slow, and I finish at the back, but to be the very last runner? Well, I guess someone has to be last.