Appropriate
Given my lack of training, this is probably going to be an appropriate e-card to send me on Sunday:
This is going to be interesting
Marathon in 5 days. I just remembered that the exact same situation happened at last year’s Flying Pig. I ran it with essentially no training. I underestimated the hills. I pretty much forgot about the race until 2 weeks beforehand.
Improvements for this year: I’ve done a marathon before. I’ve seen these hills before. I’m hydrating and eating well this week (even if I haven’t been running very much).
This race is my albatross. It’s likely that I will never ever train for it, but I’m probably going to keep running it for years.
Confession time
Alright, time to be totally honest: I’ve been completely lax in my training lately. And in my blogging…where have those Motivational Mondays gone?
Running has kinda been at the back of my mind for the past month or so, and I’m…less than prepared for this marathon in May. I got hit with the flu a few weeks ago, and haven’t really been treating my body very well (not getting enough sleep, and the words “balanced diet” are jokes) so my most recent runs have been a lot less impressive than I was hoping for in the months before a race. I’m still excited to run it, but I’m not expecting a phenomenal finish.
So, even though I feel like the Flying Pig marathon is totally appropriate to my training fatigue, I am psyched for my triathlon. The cycling part is…not easy, but now that the weather is better, I’ll be getting more bike workouts in. Hooray!
girls of Iron
We’re Jenny and Kayleigh, two cousins who are training for assorted events leading up to (eventually) an Ironman triathlon. This blog exists to keep us in check and (sometimes, when we remember to) log our training. We’ll also post about events, nutrition, fitness apparel, and anything else we can think of that relates to running, biking, and swimming.
