Ok folks. So I know I said I was retired from marathons, and I am, for sure, really, now that I got this last one out of my system and actually FINISHED. I'm not exactly sure what got into me. Yep, I pulled a Brett Favre. I signed up for the Denver Marathon yesterday and ran it today. It was a beautiful fall day in Denver, and what better way to spend a gorgeous Sunday than running through the Denver parks with about 3,000 other people. So that's what I did this morning. What did you do?
My goal was to finish, and that's what I did. It certainly wasn't pretty and it wasn't fast, and it sure wasn't a Boston qualifying time, but I did beat my previous best time by about 10 minutes. To me this means that training is totally overrated. My previous best time was set when my longest run was 6 miles and I probably ran a grand total of 5 times in "training" for that one. This also means, as I had previously suspected, that the marathon is definitely not the best distance for me. After putting in the training I did, there is no reason on paper that I shouldn't have ran faster over the 26.2 miles. Oh well. Now I'm done - for sure this time. With marathons, that is ;)
3 comments:
Way to go girl! I happened to be looking at the Denver Post on line last night to check out the Denver weather for later in the month and saw that this marathon was happening. I wondered if you would give it a try. See you soon. Oma
way to conquer the almighty marathon. i am still plodding away up here in stupid mn in my new non squishy shoes so hopefully i won't be such a spud next time i am down to visit you guys.
congrats and now rip the bon bons out of sarges paws and make him go for a run with you
ryan
Congrats on the New PR. Glad to hear it was a "beautiful course"! Enjoy your retirement, going out on a PR is much better than a DNF.
Happy Trails!
H
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