My legs are like the battery in my mp3 player. They can keep going once they are depleted unless you press any of the buttons. If you power that thing off it won't have enough juice to turn back on again. Luckily my shoe lace did not come untied in the last 4 miles like it was threatening to.
My friend told me about two months ago that we should do the Birch Bay marathon. I was like, oh, my long run right now is an hour, hmmm. I moved it up to two hours that weekend easily enough so I was like- you're on!
I live in a sort of good place for running. If you like running lots of hills. The Stimson Nature reserve is in my backyard, literally. From there it is a three minute or so vertical climb, the trail itself is a bit hilly and I can get to Sudden Valley from the trail which really should be called Sudden Mountain. If I don't want to run hills I have to drive somewhere else, so it boils down to which do I hate more? Driving, or running hills? Usually driving wins the most hated competition.
Running a marathon you have been training for for two months is painful! I have never done that before! I ran 3:47 which on the one hand is 30 minutes slower than I have run on the Birch Bay course before ( I actually did a 30 mile there that was a minute faster and felt much better), but on the other hand it is kind of cool that I can return to sub four marathoning in two months. Maybe I should train longer next time...It might keep the number one thought in my head from being- I want a car to hit me so I don't have to run anymore! (JK, please cars don't hit me again) Except my friend's boyfriend, Chikara Omine, who won the race said that was close along the lines of what he was thinking as well. Why do we all do marathons if we just want to quit the entire time?
My friend told me about two months ago that we should do the Birch Bay marathon. I was like, oh, my long run right now is an hour, hmmm. I moved it up to two hours that weekend easily enough so I was like- you're on!
I live in a sort of good place for running. If you like running lots of hills. The Stimson Nature reserve is in my backyard, literally. From there it is a three minute or so vertical climb, the trail itself is a bit hilly and I can get to Sudden Valley from the trail which really should be called Sudden Mountain. If I don't want to run hills I have to drive somewhere else, so it boils down to which do I hate more? Driving, or running hills? Usually driving wins the most hated competition.
Running a marathon you have been training for for two months is painful! I have never done that before! I ran 3:47 which on the one hand is 30 minutes slower than I have run on the Birch Bay course before ( I actually did a 30 mile there that was a minute faster and felt much better), but on the other hand it is kind of cool that I can return to sub four marathoning in two months. Maybe I should train longer next time...It might keep the number one thought in my head from being- I want a car to hit me so I don't have to run anymore! (JK, please cars don't hit me again) Except my friend's boyfriend, Chikara Omine, who won the race said that was close along the lines of what he was thinking as well. Why do we all do marathons if we just want to quit the entire time?
