Well I can say I've run a marathon now! I ran my marathon in kilometres on Sunday.
It has to be said. Not my favourite of days! But at last I finally got a big shiny medal for my efforts which has to spur me on a bit.
In all honesty my confidence is a little bit knocked. I didn't realise how hard I would find it on Sunday, what with the nerves, the horrible holding pen at the start of the race, the crowded running space around you and added pressure of not running on your own and the toilet stop judgements. It's really scared me that I'm not going to enjoy the London marathon. And it'll be worse as I'll be running for a further 2 hours on top of what I did on Sunday!
The only positive thing I can think that would help change my enjoyment is that I will know where I am on the route when I run in London as opposed to the Kilomathon where I was running between Nottingham and Derby and had no idea where I was at all, there were no landmarks for me to recognise. Fingers crossed that will make a big difference and perhaps the atmosphere too (although I really think that I'm an unsociable runner,so that's that).
Anyway, I managed to get out and do my sprints yesterday evening 10 x 400m (or 8 x 400m and 1 x 800m). Thought I was going to be sick. I wasn't. And I went to the gym tonight. I need this running malarkey to get easier. I NEED the marathon to get easier!!! So I did lots of core strength stuff as well as cardio bike intervals. Saturday I run 18 miles. It just all has to help. Really it does.
I need to think positive. And try and try to think up toilet tactics methinks...
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
I vote incontinence pants because then you won't have to panic if you get desperate.
ReplyDeleteReally proud of you, gutted I cannot be there to shout you on. Keep up the good work, you're almost there and doing brilliantly xxx