What's Next?
Recovery from the marathon is moving along slowly. The urge to run struck me on Wednesday which I didn't fight and it passed after 3 mostly slow miles. I followed that up with 4 miles on Thursday and things actually felt normal (for the most part). However, since then I've fallen off the wagon and haven't run since. It was my son's 1 year birthday party this past weekend, so that was pretty much all-consuming. I must admit, while the itch (urge?, nag?, compulsion?)to run did surface a few times, it was nice to just be able to blow it off and not feel guilty about it.
I'm going to take this week easy as well, just to make sure that my recovery is as complete as possible and then start gearing up for The Tecumseh Trail Marathon on December 6th. After reading my last race report, I decided that I needed to run a fun marathon, assuming such a thing even exists. The Tecumseh Marathon is an unbelievably tough marathon that really runs more like an ultra event than a competitive marathon. With it's relentlessly hilly terrain you can pretty much throw time out the window.
Hills, mud, water, downed trees, switchbacks...not exactly the type of course this flatlander is used to, which is exactly why I'm running it. I did do it once before in 2005 and came away promising myself that I would do it again one of these years. This year seemed as good a time as any, so I took the plunge. Now the question becomes, how do you train for something like this:
when you live around a course like this (FYI: Chicago Marathon Course Profile):
posted by Greg @ 9:03 AM
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7 Comments:
I don't see the difference between Chicage Marathon and Tecumseh Trail Marathon. Kidding! You're right, how do you train for course like that.
Hey, at least you're still in the mindset to race after an event like a 1st birthday. Our daughter's first birthday party fell on the same day as a State Championship Hill Climb when I was bike racing. It was 20 miles, all uphill, and by 15 miles in all I was thinking about was the party later that afternoon and how miserable I was fighting through the pain on the big hill. I decided to retire from bike racing before I even crossed the finish line, and I never looked back.
Maybe if we had one more kid I could get this running thing out of my system. ...Well, probably not.
that marathon of yours looks mean and fun.
How did it go?
Greg, how about an update on your running!
missed your postings!
Any news from the Midwest?
It's time to dust this off and get back in here, GC. If I can do it, so can you.
Hey Greg, I heard you fell off the wagon and stopped running and gained 200lbs and your fingers got too fat to blog. True?
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