I’m officially freaking out.<\/p>\n
There’s only 3 days left and I’ve done all the training I can do before the LA Marathon. The good news is, I’m in much better shape (weight-wise) than last year; the bad news is, I haven’t really kept up the mileage so I’m not sure how (bad) I’ll fare for 26.2 miles. ACK. Basically, my fitness level is still up in the air.<\/p>\n
I took a look at my training for the past 4 months and it DOES NOT bode well for this Sunday:<\/p>\n
40 miles in December (really curious how this happened!)
\n12 miles in January (12! Ack! I blame it on the rain [yeah yeah…] and my snowboard trips :))
\n44 miles in February (not too shabby, but I remember missing a LOT of training runs)
\n43 miles in March<\/p>\n
Compare that to my training for last year’s October marathon:
\n77 miles in April, 63 miles in May, 43 miles in June, 19 miles in July, 73 miles in August, 77 miles in September… and these also entailed a couple of skipped runs!<\/p>\n
My initial goal of finishing at 5 hours and 30 minutes is but a memory. Now I just want to finish; preferably under 7 hours — under 6 hours if at all possible, even! Oh, and survive. +_+<\/p>\n
So here’s the new plan: I’m just going to pray (did I mention I was going to try to do all 20 decades of the Rosary<\/a>?!), eat my Clif Shot gels (1 entire gel every 30 minutes), enjoy the race course, and not think of the miles.<\/p>\n Here’s hoping there will be to beautiful (i.e., COLD!) weather\u00a0 on Sunday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m officially freaking out.
\nThere’s only 3 days left and I’ve done all the training I can do before the LA Marathon. The good news is, I’m in much better shape (weight-wise) than last year; the bad news is, I haven’t really kept up the mileage so I’m not sure how (bad) I’ll fare for 26.2 read more