Well, I guess I've been feeling a little too good about myself with respect to running - even with all the niggling little aches and injuries I've gathered to myself. You'll recall that last week's long run got pushed to this Monday... Well, it was a 13 mile run, so on Saturday -- planning out how I was going to distribute the work I had to do over the next few days -- I thought to myself, "Okay, that time we did the 20 mile run on Monday I was more or less useless at work for the rest of the day, but this is only 13 miles," upon thinking which I promptly proceeded to make a schedule that involved being my usual productive self on Monday afternoon.
Let's just say that that was a mistake. And that I spent a lot of time that afternoon staring blankly past whatever paper I was thinking I might read.
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Monday: 13 miles... see above for commentary
Tuesday: 4 miles, nice and easy
Wednesday: 5 miles
Thursday: 4 miles again
As usual, another day off on Friday...
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Less than one week left! A fact which seems less and less real the more I think about it... come to think of it, this whole marathon has been seeming less real the closer it's gotten for several weeks now (more or less since the first time we ran 20 miles). I think when I started this plan, looking for a medium-term goal to work towards, in the back of my mind I was thinking of it just like any other long-term plan... and the last four months have kind of flown by.
Anyway, I guess that also means just one more of these blog posts... I'm not sure whether I'll be mobile enough to make it to the office the day after the Marathon, but check back maybe on May 3rd or 4th and I'll probably have put up the final post.
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Saturday: 3 (!) miles... there comes a point where the time it takes to walk back and forth to the gym (it was rainy today), take a shower, grab lunch, and walk back to the office so far exceeds the time you spend running that it all feels a little silly. And I can now report that 3 miles is basically that point.
Sunday: 8 miles today. It's funny to think that my long run this week would have been just another usual mid-week run a month and a half ago. In related news, I love tapering.
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Go Daniel go!!!
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