I realize I have been missing in action and that it has been months since I have posted anything. I have been struggling with motivation to run this year. Trying to fit a training schedule into my work schedule has proved itself difficult.
We joined a training program at one of the local running stores in hopes that it would help us be more intentional and make sure that training runs were logged. This helped some but I still found myself being forced into doing runs and logging some of the longest runs on the marathon schedule on my own. And I still found myself not able to do any of the weekday runs with them due to my work schedule.
I did run 2 marathons this fall but struggled majorly with them. One of them I was diverted and wound up being 2 miles short of a marathon and the other one was my slowest marathon to date. (I will be posting recaps of these on the blog soon.)
My sister and I are still trying to qualify for Marathon Maniacs and have a plan to qualify by May next year. Our plan is to run the Little Rock Marathon in March, the Hogeye Marathon in April and the Flying Pig Marathon in May. Training for Little Rock has already started and I am hopeful to try to accomplish this goal finally in 2019. (This will be try 4 for Marathon Maniacs). We are going to train again with our local running store as they are training for another local race in April.
Here’s to motivation. I’ve been doing lots of reading over this past year and have gotten back to reading running books and have found myself wanting to run which has been a change. One of the books I recently finished is Marathon Woman by Kathrine Switzer. She is one of the courageous women who proved that women can run distances longer than 800 meters (1/2 mile) and ran the Boston Marathon in 1967 as the first official woman (although women would not be recognized as official finishers until the early 70’s) to run the marathon. She realized as she was accosted by the race director that she had to finish the race or else she was going to prove the men correct. She finished under 4 1/2 hours. I had a chance to meet her earlier this fall and told her thank you.
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Consider yourself motivated and go accomplish great things today. As for me, I’m going to attempt to stick to my training schedule, run with my training group when I’m able to and hold myself accountable for getting my runs in even if it means lots of early morning runs.
Until next time,
Candace
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