Well I am have definitely learned that on my journey to Boston Qualify that the hardest thing for me to do was BLOG EVERY DAY or every other day, wow, blogging is hard!
I give much respect to bloggers who are able to write down their experiences on a daily, weekly or month basis. Yet no matter how much or little I wrote to anyone standards it is definitely therapeutic to put your thoughts and goals down anywhere.
So its 5 day to Marathon day in Santa Rosa and it just feels good to be able to go and run a marathon. I am humbled to be physically able to do so and feeling extremely grateful that I am able to participate in such an event.
Since the long training run from my last post a month ago I have just maintained my mileage and this past Monday (8/18) did my last long run of 13 miles.
Wednesday after the long training run on 7/30 I ended up doing 10 miles in the neighborhood where I found MORE PAVED TRAIL in the Matthew Henson Park! I always thought that the 2.5 miles of trail directly on my running path was the park. Yet I ended up crossing the street on this particularly day and finding another park of the trail (3.5 MILES WORTH). I was so excited! So though I did not get to train much on another 3.5 miles of trail in my neighborhood park, I am excited to run on this trail in the future. I also realized there is another 9 miles on the other end of the trail so I am excited to discover this trail as well soon.
On 8/2 I ended up doing 7 miles. Within the week I did do some short runs on treadmill and just getting in as much mileage as possible.
On 8/6 Wednesday I did 5 miles on treadmill at gym.
On 8/13 Wednesday I ended up doing 3.5 miles after spending the weekend with the stomach flu! During the previous week on Wednesday 8/6 I had went to gym and and was feeling fine after my 5 miler until that night. I started feeling very bad and it took me a week to recover. I can only be grateful that I don't have the stomach flu now! It was ugly yet glad I am over it!
On 8/16 Saturday I did do 8 miles on treadmill at gym...though hesitantly as that is where I got sick yet I did get it done.
At this point I am just really happy that I am running a Marathon this year. Physically I feel good to complete the marathon. Will I do it in a BQ time.......hoping so.
Desiree Davila a popular runner quoted
"Running is just you, the work you put in, and the clock. You can't cheat yourself. If you don't put in the miles, you cant go to the staring line thinking you're going to pull a miracle out of nowhere. You get out exactly as much as you put in." Going of this quote, I know I would have had to work harder to pull off a BQ time this Sunday. Yet if I go off motivational speaker and football player Lou Holtz's quote,
"Ability is what you are capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."Well I am truly excited to run and if my attitude is determining my ability to qualify, then I am qualifying!
Looking forward to meeting myself transformed at the finish line of the Santa Rosa Marathon! Will continue to run lightly from now until M-day and just go with what my body and soul tell me.
In transformation and Consistency ...which I continue to strive for,
Yvonne!
