Had a great weekend away with the lovely wife to Hot Springs. Everyone should stay at the Arlington and do the spa thing once. Once. Ran around Hot Springs. (I will expand on this in another post)
Encouraging results in my training. I completed my first half in 2:10:56 ish. When I ran my 13.1 mile long run 2 weeks ago I did it in 2:04:05- 6 minutes 51 seconds faster than my previous Half and most importantly only 4:06 away from my goal. That goal being to break 2 hours. Sub 2 hours seems attainable.
Here I am just days out from the Soaring Wings Half. Winding down the runs and trying to rest up for the race.
As far as training goes it has been uneventful. I run 5 days a week 4 of those at 5 a.m. Saturday I run when I feel like getting up and around.
Uneventful is good. It's like traveling. Eventful usually means trouble. So other than the back issue training has been uneventful.
On one hand, I am looking for ward to getting this weekends Half behind me. On the other, I have completed a half before. It's something of a known entity. On Sunday I enter uncharted waters consisting of 2 a days and 20 mile Saturday runs.
I officially signed up for the LR Marathon http://www.littlerockmarathon.com/index.cfm last week before I came to senses and realized, really realized what I was doing.
I'm so gonna die doing this. (If anyone ever reads this tell my wife and daughter I love them.)
Lance Armstrong apparently said "pain fades quiting lasts forever" or someting silimar. It's probably from his cameo in Dodgeball.
I like the Keanue Reeves quote from The Replacements better "pain heals, chicks dig scars but glory last forever, woh." I might've added the 'woh'. I'm a little fuzzy about that.
Anyhoo, the point is this better be pretty fucking glorious.
