Today was my final LONG run before the marathon next Sunday. Twenty miles to be exact. In all of my efforts to prepare for the run I had not realized that my iPhone had not charged properly the day before. So this morning I delayed the start of my run to almost 8am and left with the phone 3/4 of way charged.
I got to the track and started running at 8am. An hour and twelve minutes in, bam, phone dies! So I finish my run (jog and a shitload of walking) in silence. Three and half hours later as I come to finish I realize I was probably way more present during my run. Focused on form or lack there of, keeping my arms, shoulders and neck loose, and just an overall presence of what was happening to me physically. I was grotesquely hot, as it was over 95 degrees when I finished and the stickiness from all of the sunscreen was maddening.
At mile 18 I discovered two spots I had missed with body glide and the chaffing spots became pretty unbearable. I literally had to beg myself to do 12 more laps to finish and telling myself to ignore the irritant.
So I sound pretty miserable right? Yes, I was miserable, but amazed at the same time. I was (am still) in awe of the fact that I went 20 miles. Its something I have never done and honestly thought how is that possible?
So as I think about next week and taking on 26 miles, I am sure that I will probably at some point befriend some misery, but found that I can get through that by staying present and just taking it step by step.
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