This just in: I can train again!
I don’t know what I will be training for: 10K, or half-marathon
(definitely not the main event, the marathon, just yet).
But I’m back. Easy does it. Still, I ran thirty-six minutes today (April
5) on the treadmill at slightly slower than a pre-injury pace. (Nine-minute
mile, four miles to the dot) And felt zero ill-effects.
When one of the things that you count on goes south, it’s a reasonable
response to say, OK, that’s it. No more of that. At your age, you can run but you can’t train. Don’t even
think about entering a race.
I am so psyched to say that that kind of thinking is history. Perhaps
rightfully, I should follow my smarter-half instinct and abandon the idea that
I will enter to run in my ninth marathon.
Abandonment, though, has never been my thing. Suffice to say that, with
plenty of days left in this current season, that I am spring training again. A
state I can hardly believe I’m crossed into !
If I can do it, after the injuries I sustained last summer, fall and
winter, then you can too. Hope to see you out there!
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