Thanks Pam! I should've been smart like you and cut it short, or at least cut back on the effort. Stubborn idiot I am. Steamtown is gonna be awesome no matter what the conditions! You will love that race!! There is no way you're backing out! I was looking at your Lehigh Marathon that you have coming up. Sounds like a nice downhill course there, perfect for your Steamtown training. You've worked too hard to bag the race. I'm older and have run more marathons than you, so I'm allowed.
Your toughness is made up of equal parts persistence and experience. You don't so much outrun your opponents as outlast and outsmart them, and the toughest opponent of all is the one inside your head." - Joe Henderson
Stubborn maybe, idiot NOT! Anyway I'm not always smart Yes it is and YOUR going to ROCK IT!!! BUT if you back out, so will I SOOOOO you know what that means ( you think your stubborn) We've both worked too hard to bag the race no mater how old or how many marathons you've ran! BTW your not much older than I am, but you can always use your knee surgery as a reason
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Ok, Pam, if the weather is nasty, looks like we're both gonna go down with the ship together! There was a triathlon I did, and I talked a bunch of other people I knew into doing it. They weren't keen on the idea, but it was all for one and one for all. Race day turned out nasty, with huge waves. We were all pretty sucky swimmers. After about 1 minute of getting thrashed around in the water, I said screw this and got out, dried off and changed, went and got a bagel and coffee and sat and watched everyone else. You should've seen the livid looks on my friends faces when they saw me standing there all dry and comfortable, cheering them on.
Just think I'm running a 5k tonight in this mess! WAY to tough it out though!!! I think runs in conditions like today really help the mental part. If you can push through this heat and humidity, 26.2 miles in GREAT conditions is going to be AWESOME!! Now lets just pray that conditions are GREAT! As for the webbed feet, I supposely have them since I'm from Seattle. Unfortunatly they don't seem to help me at all here in the east.
I think runs in conditions like today really help the mental part. If you can push through this heat and humidity, 26.2 miles in GREAT conditions is going to be AWESOME!!
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I agree with the mental part and am hoping you are right on the 26.2 part! Look on the bright side - only 46 more days of summer left - or in other words, it's half over tomorrow!
In the winter, we can't wait for the summer. In the summer, we can't wait for winter. Around here, September, October and November are just glorious months to train in. So for next fall, assuming I haven't destroyed my body by then, I think a December marathon will be in order. That way there won't be this pressure to get the workouts in during the middle of the summer.
Just checked weather and tomorrow's high is supposed to be 74 I'm running tomorrow lol