15 miles this morning, building up to marathon weekend one, which will be the climb for a second marathon weekend the end of October. Two more weeks! I need to run all the mileage this week, be more laid back the week of, and look at marathon one as if an ascend to reaching marathon two. I’m very hopeful to finish both 26.2s in October, for being 11 years deep, maybe the last season of fulls. One step at a time, we shall see during marathontober blogtober.
I think my sneakers make me run faster and they’re going to be perfect for the Maine Marathon in Portland!
This weekend seems to have been a nice build for the week ahead, hopefully next weekend I hit marathon distance within five miles in one session. If I have a base of the next two weeks, race day should be fantastic. Let’s see how running before and after school all week turns out being.
10 miles today, hoping for a three hours run tomorrow. This is going to be my most intense ‘getting in shape’ week in my marathon training for next month, just working through it.
Back when I was 18 running the Maine Marathon for the first time, I never went for longer than 15-18 miles in one day doing laps around my block in 5 or 3 mile increments depending on the route like now in my training. I remember reaching mile 18 in the Maine Marathon for the first time and feeling struck with fear of whether or not I could finish the entire event, popping a jelly bean for runners in my mouth thinking it would be my fuel to the finishline 8.2 miles later. It's wild to think I did my first Marathon without any gels and barely going to the water stations. Now I wonder if everything that I went through physically to finish the marathon was a big deal compared to the emotion of accomplishing a huge goal, meeting a standard to finally be a 'marathoner'. I'll be really proud of myself if I finish the Maine Marathon and MDI Marathon this October, at 29 eleven years later… and have a Halloween violin concert on top of it all.
5 humid miles on this lovely first week back in elementary school. Gotta work it through marathon training 11 years deep. What will long running this weekend feel like? Today, I was thinking about how bad I wanted to run Maine and MDI for my ten years deep goal, but if it works out for my eleventh year goal coming to fruition it’ll make my entire life!
5 mile run 3 mile walk. Getting in shape for a long run this weekend.
5 miles of running and 3 of walking. A pretty good start to first week of the last month before the big marathon.
The very Italia lasagne, almost on August 15th. Lasagne to dream of, paired with a very fine red chianti.
Maybe, I'll run it all off tomorrow.
10 mile run after a long day of hiking in the wild.
Adventure whilst the color of yellow reminds all of love! Being active in nature projects the virtue of marathon running. Transcend love through mileage. 🌲
Five easy Miles today. Diving back in after being dizzy and injuring my arm two weeks ago. Hiking cross training with my campers everyday seemed to keep me in shape. Hopefully, a long run works out tomorrow and training falls into place.
It’s precious to have plants landscaped around the property that remind us of fond memories, as if to be jewels beneath gorgeous flowers or stones, or seeing the livley butterfly’s.
On all of my running adventures, I love to focus on a positive affirmation, which may be connected to a workout or perhaps be just a mentality of focus. Finding poetry or mantras to remember or listen to in an audio book is an entertaining mindful soul fueling way to endure mileage.
Running aside, the fall two weeks ago set back a private violin concert planned for quite some time just for my mom and I, on August 15th. Sometimes we just fall to get back up again. There will be another time we'll stop by a pretty church or garden, have her sit for my classical tunes and then go out to dinner after. Finding perfection in the imperfect is a vision for artists. My first real violin has several cracks along the sound holes that were repaired to a point of being playable, which is a difficulty to play an antique lacking modern pegs yet having a gorgeous sound. Now, I feel like I have found a balance between playing an antique with a gorgeous sound while having a luxury of pegs that turn. All those years of six hour sessions on the real monstrous antique led to a more comfortable era. There’s something significant about knowing times to push through an obstacle or just drop the rope and create a completely new idea, new dates and places. Being flexible while accepting extraneous situations like falling, with making new dates is going to lead to an enjoyable powerful experience, creating something new. And then we’ll have the halloween concert…. 🎃
Lush green bliss 🍀
I think being in nature heals chronic illness or pain on a spiritual level. When I was at my worst, looking outside my window at the birds and trees would fill my soul, which evolved into being outside in sunlight soaking in positive energy, to being able to walk through forests praying the rosary whilst listening to birds and being a guest of beautiful wildlife. The wildlife may give a feeling of true serenity, a glorious environment for finding inner peace. Having friends enduring similar health situations may be healing, while hiking in nature sharing synchronized steps while taking in nature. Sometimes it's helpful to be relective of the first steps and breathes before becoming a marathon runner, memories of moments from those early steps or breathes feel just as significant as the competitive experience.
Never have to choose between miles and marshmallows.
Cross training hiking by monets garden!
Exercise to roast marshmallow s'more!
Hiking is cross training, until last weeks scratches heal!
