I am grateful for soreness after a half
marathon
(because it means I did it!)
Lets back up first I finished my half marathon in the Twin
Cities on Saturday, and for MN weather this time of year, it was a pretty mild
32-35 degrees. This is still the coldest I have run a long race in though. My
time was over my 3 hour goal mark. At around the 10 mile mark my exercise
induced asthma kicked in due to the cold. I had my inhaler with so I was ok but
because of that those last 3 miles were brutal and slowed down my time
considerably. Am I upset? After all I trained for months for this only to have
this happen. No, I am not upset and the main reason is that I am at a much
better place mentally than I have ever been in my life. I can look at what I
did and say holy crap I just did 13.1 miles!! It doesn’t matter if I ran, walked, jogged,
shuffled, skipped etc to the finish line I did it! I committed to this months ago put in the
training and did it!
I also learned a very valuable lesson. I need to stick to
warmer races for long races. Shorter races I can and have done in cooler months
but long races stick to warmer months.
Now I look to future races.
I said I was going to do Insanity but I still want to run 3
times a week and I think the better program for that is Les Mills Combat which
are fitness dvd’s that are martial arts, weight training, and HIIT(High
Interval Intensity Training) not as intense as Insanity but will give me a good
workout and I will be able to run 3 times a week.
Just a quick thank you to my accountability partner Pam
whose daily emails helped me out tremendously and my friend Trish Blackwell
whose weekly podcast were amazing. The positive feedback from both of them was
essential to my training. Again anyone who wants a great podcast and
inspirational website go here http://www.trishblackwell.com/.
Well everyone have a great week I will write more on Les
Mills Combat later and as always enjoy the journey.
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