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 ;)
