I believe that today is Labor Day (We would spell it Labour), in the US, so Happy Holiday to y'all. For me it's a normal working day. The first day of my 4 weeks notice period, and eight weeks today, the Dublin Marathon takes place. Will I be ready in time to survive the run?
I have to confess I am beginning to doubt my ability to make it. My summer of slacking has not left me in the best of shape, and whilst previously I have been able to recover form and fitness quickly after a lay-off, I am having those nagging doubts this time, heck, I'm getting older.
This weekend I was tied up on Saturday, having to drive up to see my mam, a 150 mile round trip, get the weeks groceries in, then shoot home to spend a few hours vegetating in front of the TV watching Soccer. It was only a few weeks ago that the World Cup ended, and here we are with the first qualifying games for the European Championships. For the record Ireland lost 0-1 away in Germany, whilst England won 5-0 against the mighty Andorra (those blue skinned aliens looked better on Star Trek). So no running, and a few beers :).
Sunday morning I went out and ran a brief 2.5 mile run, clocking 20:25 on a blustery day, a little over 8 minute pace, but I didn't feel great at all. Maybe it was the beer, maybe it was in my head, but I didn't actually enjoy the run, it was hard work - hence those nagging doubts. I will tie up the shoes again today, and will continue to run - I will get back on track, but at the moment things are not looking good. Hopefully, I'll read this post back in a couple of months and laugh, today I'm not laughing (except for a certain fellow blogger who has her underwear on inside out :))............
6 comments:
The first 2.5 miles always feel the hardest. You stopped running just when you got properly warmed up.
Do you think you can make it in 8 weeks?
Hi Liam, I had a tough weekend too, bit of a party weekend with the wedding in Liverpool, which I really enjoyed. Struggled yesterday big time and only did just over 6 miles of my planned 12 mile run. I'm really starting to worry now with only 8 weeks to go if I'll be ready or not, but none the less I'm going to keep trying. That's all we can do I suppose. Best of luck with getting the miles up and hopefully as you said we'll both look back and laugh at our latest posts.
Well, here's hoping that you'll be ready in time. Eight weeks can go by in an instant! Stick with it, and you'll be ready.
It will take some time Liam, unfortunately 8 weeks will be here before you know. Keep at it you'll know what to do at the end of the 8 weeks.
It all depends on how much confidence & will power you have in yourself. Phil started training in August 2005 & i started training in Janurary 2006, but we became too accustomed to boozy nights out or boozy nights in so we basically ended up back at square one. Then in mid July Phil found a training programme to suit our fittness & time scale. It was our last chance as first time runners. Since then we've gone from strength to strength in just 7 weeks. I never thought we would get this far seeing as how unfit we had become, it just took alot of dedication & belief (sounds cheesy i know). If you believe you can do it then whats stopping you?!
Great, you had to tell everyone about my underwear issues!
Oh, wait. I did that first. Never mind. ;-)
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