My las, long run went well. And that makes me feel super happy. I will say it was a very LONG and BORING run. I had to run the entire 20 miles by myself again. The next time I choose to do a marathon I will choose one that someone will run and train with me so I am not so alone in the training. :-) But getting out there to run has been kind of hard these days. I fear I am overtraining and getting bored. But being in the taper keeps me going. I know I am on the downhill and will see the end of the marathon soon! Sad part is I am not really looking forward to running it. I think the hardest part is setting a goal for yourself and hoping you will make it, but having that part in in the back of your brain that thinks and knows you just won't do it. I hate being such a pessimist and Negative Nancy. I need to do the psycho-babble and tell myself I can do it. Afterall, I ran my 20 miler well (and of course "well" is all relative...I'm not super fast ya know!). The first 20 miles I ran at a 9:15 to 9:45 pace. It got tough at points because I knew how much further I had to go...and I was bored already. Plus I kept thinking back to how much I wish I could have stayed at my friend's house because she was making pancakes, eggs, sausage and hashbrowns when I dropped off the boy. Talk about discipline! Anyways, back to the 20-miler. The last half of the run I ran at a 8:00 to 8:30 pace. There were times I felt like I was really pushing myself to maintain the pace, and others I was completely in the zone and it felt "easy." Not sure if I'll be able to maintain that pace for 20 odd miles but I'll try my bestest. :-)
I really don't know if I should just set my hopes a little lower and aim for a pace I know I can maintain. Or do I just go forward with my plan and hope I don't die out at the end?
On non-running topics...since we decided to not, not-try any more...I'm waiting impatiently for Sunday to get here. I could take a test now but am telling myself to just wait it out and see what happens. If nothing happens now I really do hope that baby making is good for marathons cuz we'll be pretty darn focused the minute my hubby gets home...and that's only days away from the marathon :-).
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I am so glad you enjoy your recovery socks! :) thanks for letting me know! Hope your taper is coming along nicely! :)
Oh ya, I WAS actually going to write that I bought and tried them this weekend. I am not sure if it was the socks or not but I seem to have recovered nicely. So even if it wasn't the socks....I still like the kick-ass pink socks. It brings me back to my basketball days!!! Although my socks then weren't pink...but were all black. :-)
Hey, did you play basketball growing up? HS and college? Hey...me too! MY FIRST love is basketball....but I have a feeling that I am much older than you! LOL
Yeah for a good run!! As for babymaking = goodm arathon...I tend to think not as it has implications for sleep. Is it sad that sleep is more important to me???
I only played baskbetall in high school, but played on intramurals all throughout college...and volleyball.
And no DC mama...not sad at all. It's usually what happens around this house more often than not :-)
ha ha.
Great long run! I wish I could run like that right now. I should be able to! The not-trying thing, what if you are pregnant at the marathon, would you just run it easy? A couple weeks ago I took a test and was like oh crap, this is going to suck for the marathon! phew for negative. I never went back on the BC after Nick.
So I had to look up what you said "haha" to, DC mama...and I am now hitting myself because I don't think the whole sleep thing will be an issue. It'll be about a month since we saw each other so, I'm thinking things should happen kind of quickly and we'll be over and done before we know it :-)
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