My longest run since the broken foot incident is 22 miles, two weeks ago. Last Saturday when I tried to run 24 miles, I missed a turn at Back Back and ended up running in a not so good neighborhood in Santa Ana. Being inland, the temperatures being high (for me anyway), and morale low from being lost for about half an hour ended my run at 15.5 miles, when my boyfriend ended up picking me up at a McDonalds (I enjoyed a nice chocolate milk.)
This is interesting since I have never had this kind of a setback on a long run before. I don't know if I'm just out of shape since I'm still always erring on the side of safe for my foot, or if it was the cross training I did that shredded my legs and it didn't quite recover in time for the long run, but it's demoralizing a bit. I know in reality 15.5 miles three weeks out from a marathon is excellent taper, but I wanted to do 24 just to make sure I could really do it.
It's only 10 days from race day.
I also heard that if you get picked up by the bus you still get the finisher necklace... I don't think I could seriously wear it if I was DNF and still got it. Some people just really really want to get the necklace, but me, I want to be healthy enough to earn it. Just finishing Disney was a big deal for me, and I want that feeling again, finishing a marathon, coming back from the broken foot and just be able to think of myself as a whole person again instead of still broken.
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