A brief perusal of my blogs and you will see that I have no been very type-happy lately. 2018 was a challenging year - a year that was pretty much devoid of running in any concrete form. Sure, I went for one here and there, but 2017 kind of burnt me out a bit.
I ran a half marathon every month in 2017, and while the blog posts have yet to be written for half of them...you can see them listed on my Races page. I pretty much finished the year not running anything but the races and that was enough that I was able to finish each race without destroying my body in the process.
2018 has been an emotionally draining year for reasons I won't discuss here, but it has pretty much sapped most of my energy, free thinking time, motivation and my body (and perhaps, my mind) has paid the price. I feel the need to do something about it...try to get back into it.
I've been mulling it over a while now, and I have decided to train (as close to the level as London as possible) for another marathon. And I've signed up already. The Cincinnati Flying Pig Marathon is on May 5, 2019. It is 142 days away - 20 weeks and 2 days away. My 20 week training program starts on December 17. I will be aiming for Run-Walk this time around...instead of Run only (as I did for London) just because I am not quite in the shape I was then.
Stay tuned for further developments.
I ran a half marathon every month in 2017, and while the blog posts have yet to be written for half of them...you can see them listed on my Races page. I pretty much finished the year not running anything but the races and that was enough that I was able to finish each race without destroying my body in the process.
2018 has been an emotionally draining year for reasons I won't discuss here, but it has pretty much sapped most of my energy, free thinking time, motivation and my body (and perhaps, my mind) has paid the price. I feel the need to do something about it...try to get back into it.
I've been mulling it over a while now, and I have decided to train (as close to the level as London as possible) for another marathon. And I've signed up already. The Cincinnati Flying Pig Marathon is on May 5, 2019. It is 142 days away - 20 weeks and 2 days away. My 20 week training program starts on December 17. I will be aiming for Run-Walk this time around...instead of Run only (as I did for London) just because I am not quite in the shape I was then.
Stay tuned for further developments.
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