I can not believe there are only 25 days left. WHAT happened to this year! How has training flown by? It was really cold this am when I was waiting for the bus so I got that instinctive bundle-up-its-winter feeling again. But its not! It's really not. It's almost summer. It's almost Hamptons house time. It's almost BBQ and beer pong time :)
I suppose the real reason that this all feels so fast is that I have only been running 1x a week. My patella tendon seems to be hanging in there now that it's relatively stabilized with this . It seems to be working hard at its little job of helping my knee because everything seems to be hanging tough. So, therefore I am back to 3 day a week running... obviously lighter and shorter distances but I intend to sub out tonights usual run with spin class (second time, thank you very much), Thursday I intend to run up to the reservoir, around 2x and back down. That should be about miles. On Saturday I'm running the Scotland run. That was the first run I ever ran last March 30th. The real reason I signed up was to honor my ex bf Alex who was running the Atlanta marathon that day. 10k seemed so long. I remember thinking 'if he can run a marathon, I can run 6 miles' I had never run that distance before. I had never contemplated running that distance before. I went in blind. I overdressed. I ran the race in a terrible 1:10:17 and I was really proud and really fought for that time. I remember being so out of breathe and so proud that I finished. I remember falling into a nap when I got home that pm. 10k sounded like a crap load of a run. It was my first time up Harlem Hill. Amazing what a year can do. Eric ran with me... he wanted to run the half marathon last October, but in typical little brother styel, didn't train and didn't run. Now here I am runing a marathon after a dedicated 5 months, and he probably wouldnt be able to beat his 10k time. It's a little sad to me, but I suppose it goes to show what hard work can accomplish.
Tonight, spin. Part deux.
