You ever get that tight feeling in your stomach when you open up a letter (or email) and realize that whatever you signed up for or did is now official because if it written down? Well, I got that feeling today as I opened an email from the Hervis Prague Half Marathon committee telling me my registration was now "official" (even though I signed up in November), my start number is F1044, and that I am to take this letter with me when I pick up my number and goodie bag.
Looks like I'm running 13.1 miles on March 27, 2010 in Prague and you know what I want to throw up. I guess it's that mix of fear, excitement, uncertainty, stupidity, and down right anxiety. Can I make it? Can I complete the training? Why am I really doing this? Will my body hold up? What the fuck am I thinking (excuse my French, but you know it gives it that extra zing)?
Really, the training is the hardest part. Keeping to this half marathon schedule that just looks at me day in and day out when I am in my office working or in the kitchen eating is what worries me the most. The diagnosis of sciatica from the osteopath with the warning of no weights and no running doesn't help either. As she worked on my lower back this past Monday thoughts raced through my mind. I am ok forgoing the intense weight workouts and replacing them with pilates and body weight routines. To be honest it is better for my joints and should help me in sculpting a physique I desire and can maintain until weights are my friend once again. But the running - can't let go of it man. Every time I have said I was to run a half marathon in the past some injury has gotten in the way. Now some would say that it's a "sign" from "somewhere" that maybe running long distance is not for me. But, if you know me then you know I see it as a sign that I need to get off my ass, suck it up, log the miles, and run across that damn finish line on March 27 in a city where I have never been. So, it's official - I'm running 13.1 miles.
2 comments:
Yay! You can do it. My mom worked up from walking 1/2 mile to running a half marathon with a bum knee. You are powerful! - Adrianne
Good luck... Hal Higdon's schedules are the business!
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