Marathon Training

The goal is always to toe-the-line uninjured, and in some kind of base shape to run the entire distance. Yesterday, I had run ten miles. Today, I finished five miles, taking on the rain one step at a time. Being in the rain, reminded me of running highschool cross country in the rain, when coach didn’t cancel practice; which is one of those bittersweet fond memories of the shorter distances that turned me into an even longer distance endurance runner.

12 years of full marathons is coming, in just under two weeks, I will hopefully prove to myself I still have it all going on. Marathon running so made me a real athlete not a fake one. When I did the full at 18, my runner friends told me it is so thirty to run that far, and here I am about to find out if my event is totally for my present self.

To not care about the time split of a mile apres running over half of my life, yet having to care about twenty six entire miles all at once… Oh to finish another 26.2 would be inexplicably magic.