In the spring it is very easy for me to get caught up in racing. There seems to be an abundance of local races and I have a very hard time resisting the urge to run every single one of them. Last year at this time I think I did race just about all of them (including double races two weekends in a row) which may have contributed to my injury. This year I’m trying to be a little more…
Coming back from an injury can take a while and it’s hard not to get a little discouraged during the comeback phase. For the last several months I’ve been comparing myself to where I was last year before the plantar fasciitis started. My foot has felt good for a while now but my confidence in my ability has not been there. On Saturday I got some of that confidence back and I must say it was good! I actually met…
Thank you for the kind comments on my blog, Facebook, and Twitter recently. As you can imagine it was very hard to drop out of a marathon at the last minute but it is what it is and I’m much better now- physically and emotionally! I think the hardest part was accepting reality and officially making the decision. I did get a kick out of some of the Facebook/blog comments. Particularly the ones who thought the thermometer was a positive…
Life is unexpected and sometimes things happen that our out of our control. This was one of those weeks. Last Sunday I was coming off of a great training cycle. Sure it was lower in mileage than previous training cycles (mostly averaging 55-60 mpw) but I was injury-free and I completed every workout hitting all the right training pace times. I knew I wasn’t in sub 3 condition yet but in my mind I thought a 3:05 was realistic. Over…