until the 1/2 marathon launch.
Am I nervous – perhaps a little – but it kind if just feels like any other Sunday run for me.
I’m not going out to break any land speed records. I have a sore knee and I am really hoping that it doesn’t play up on me tomorrow.
I love how fit I am at the moment and would really like to be able to stay at this point – but I have to be realistic in that the next month or so is going to pose a few lifestyle challenges for me. New house, new job, new state, new temperatures……….no husband or cat to snuggle. I am determined to not let it all get away from me again though. I’ll stay intouch with my training as much as I can but I will also need to give myself permission to not get angry or upset if I can’t get something in. My new job has 10hour days and that is going to make it really difficult for me I think. Currently I only work a 7.5 hour day.
I am definitely going to find a training group in Canberra to go along to – at least that way I will get to mee a few people.
Mark said to me today that he is glad that the Half marathon is on tomorrow because then he will get me back again and I won’t be so concerned about my training. I think he feels as though I am being a bit selfish – especially when there is so much to do on the house etc at the moment.
I feel as though my reparation for this run on the past few weeks has been really awful – mainly because there has been so much else going on that I haven’t been able to focus completely on this event. In fact that is something I have learn’t and will grow from within this whole experience because I constantly over committ myself to things. Realistically – it wasn’t very smart of me to enter a half marathon when two days before I had two assignments due, I knew that the possibility of the job would pop up and that the house needed lots of work done on it.
SO in knowing that now – I have decided to not enter the Gold Coast Half marathon/Full marathon.
Looking at all of the challenges and changes that I will have ahead of me in the next couple of months – I feel as though it might be a little impractical. I really really enjoy running and the excitement and work up towards an event – and with everything else going on I haven’t been able to enjoy it OR be completely focussed on my training and nutrition.
BUT – I do still need a point in the future to be working towards – I know that that is something that is very important for me to have in my life. So my next Major event will most likely be the Melbourne marathon – on October 12th, 2008. That gives me a month or so to keep training and allow myself to get back into routines once all the changes have been and gone. then I will have a solid 5 months of training to bulid up to the marathon distance. I think that this is a much smarter decision for me. (although I will still have uni committments at the end of the year and I will have to consider this closer to the time). It also means that I will have a full Canberra winter to train through and acclimatise to the cold rather than just 2 months. I feel like I will have the time to be much more thoroughly prepared. I want to be able to focus 100% rather than haphazardly.
SO – I had better go off and get myself organised for tomorrow morning as I will be getting up at 4:15am or something ungodly like that.
Think of me tomorrow morning when you are eating your breakfast.
I promised one of the patients at work who is in a lot of pain at the moment that I would think of her pain while I am running – and know that somewhere out there – someone is doing it tougher than me – so my run tomorrow is dedicated to Mark’s mum – who is just about to begin her battle with oesophageal cancer and all of the brave people who I see everyday at work – fighting to win the race over their cancer diagnosis.
