Monday, September 12, 2011

On the road to NWM...

I finished the Disneyland Half Marathon in once piece.  2:20:32.  Much faster than I had anticipated, but boy did I pay for it later in sore knees (both of them) and really sore quads!  It was definitely not a PR by about 10 minutes, but it was my second best time. 

I'm happiest that my foot and the prior knee pain (much worse than the overuse ache I suffered right after the race) did not get worse.  I think at one point in the race it hurt about 2 seconds, but overall I kept my form well, did not push too hard, and both parts stood up to the punishment.  On the cardiovascular front, I was quite under trained, and felt it from about mile 10.  The walk breaks really helped a lot.  My foot was a bit sore after I woke up from a nap later that afternoon, but it was kind of in a different spot and it cleared up in less than a day.

After the race, I took a couple days to recover, and four days later did a light 8 miles around my new neighborhood.  Two days after that I woke up at 4:30AM on a Saturday for a nice 15 or 16 mile run (turned out to be a 16 mile run.)  My gymboss clip broke (so I tucked it in my sports bra, which ended up killing it with humidity), the beach opened later than I thought, and it rained AND hailed on me, but my foot felt a lot better, and no pain afterwards.  I'm really starting to think I can do this marathon.  Granted, the training won't really be the same, and I won't have time to taper.  Due to my lost weeks of training, I'm literally training up to the marathon mileage as a "training run" portion of a normal marathon training program!  Next weekend will be 18-19 miles long run, the following week will be 19-21 miles long run, then 22-24 mile long run the weekend before the race...  since I bombed so badly in my first marathon, I might not be that far off my marathon PR!  Which is exciting since I'll need it to beat the 14 minute (minus losing a minute a mile from the delay in the start) pace at NWM!

Getting really excited about the race now :3

Bib from the Half Marathon!

Finisher medal :3

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