May 21, 2006

Looong road … looong run

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And still many bridges to cross and many miles to go until D-Day

Sundays are BIG run days in the marathon training schedule, and some are just easier than others. This was not one :). I wanted to finish the rough draft of a synopsis before I laced up the runners, but by the time I was done, I had serious trouble actually booting myself out the door. My saving grace was DD #2 on her bike … my personal cheerleading squad, support crew, and photographer.

The first mile sucked big time. I felt like wood — thought I’d never make it. But then I thought of Meretta doing her run across the country somewhere, and I kept plodding … one foot after the other. We hit the hills (real easy to do in a ski resort ) and my knee started protesting. Found a better grade of incline, kept going. And by 19 kilometers or so … I was doing great!!! Just flying. Numb, but flying — in my mind, anyway. Probably resembled an old lady shuffling in reality. The lesson learned? Keep at it. Keep putting one foot in front of the other with your eye on the goal — and you can conquer those mental and physical barriers and blow through in the end. It’s an empowering exercise, one a day like today shows can work – both in writing and in running.

Oh …and those jeans are feeling just a little looser. Now THAT is a nice feeling

Happy weekend all.

Posted by Loreth @ 6:32 pm | THE RUNNING LIFE, THE WRITING LIFE

2 Responses to “Looong road … looong run”

On May 21st, 2006 at 9:09 pm
Meretta Says:

Great stuff, Loreth. Keep at it, my friend.

And um…by 19 km I was hobbling up the driveway, totally impressed that I’d done it, but my legs were toast so I was definitely doing that old lady shuffle thing. Legs feel good now (talk to me tomorrow and I’ve pulled a muscle in my neck (must be all that side to side scanning of the underbrush looking for bears on the prowl but YAY!! We did it!
On May 23rd, 2006 at 9:00 am
Loreth Says:

I’m still chuckling about the neck muscles. Heheh .. I used to get cramp in my forearm from holding one of those old clunker walkmen things

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