This winter has not been kind to runners in general. For me, it's been a huge mental challenge. I've been out in cold and bad weather for so long, that it feels like it was years ago that I ran in nice conditions. Some days I've been able to overcome the inertia that dark cold days bring, and other days I haven't been able to. Then, there are those events that are beyond my control.
Originally, I wanted to run twelve races in twelve months. Everything was going along really well until two things happened:
1. Weather forced the postponement, and then the cancellation of the second race I had planned to run.
2. Illness forced me to miss the third race I had planned on.
While neither one of these events is anything I could have controlled, it still threw me off track. What was I going to do? How would I recover?
Well, upon reflection I have plenty of time. I can still attain my goal. The Maine Marathon is more than six months away, so I have a lot of time to train, and there are a lot of road races in Maine between now and then. I just need to take a deep breath and relax.
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