After last Friday’s grueling run and knee pain, I didn’t expect much today. But, it was a great run! Started out running against 15 mph winds in 41 degrees, but warmed up after a few hills. I bought another pair of running shoes (I’ve tried 3 so far and returned all of them!) and they were great, no knee pain whatsoever!! Decided not to go and lift because I want to rest my knee a bit and will swim in the early AM.
Workout:
- Type: Run
- Date: 10/20/2008
- Time: 12:00:00
- Total Time: 1:02:00.00
- Distance: 6.3 miles
- Average Pace: 9:50.16/mile
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October 21st, 2008 at 1:50 pm
i know . . . it’s like, it’s easy for me to say, right? but the more and more i experience, the more it seems clear to me that being fast, however you define it, isn’t difficult. i don’t have the words to explain it. it’s just something that you would experience if you got into my head. i think it’s almost entirely mental . . . just thinking about every step i take, and concentrating on form all of the time. and then when i get comfortable with myself, increasing my stride length while decreasing cadence. then increasing cadence once again with that longer stride length and achieving greater speed with the same amount of perceived effort. then training at that increased speed so that that becomes my base again. those 3 sentences, of course, take weeks to show results. and then once the objective is achieved, it’s back to step one. so of course, there’s the associated dedication to working on it day in and day out.
and then the key to my performance on sunday. i had 3 months off running, and i knew i had only 3 weeks to train. i knew i could only train 4 days a week or risk injury, so i had to make the most of my training. so i did most of my training before eating anything that day, and then kept from eating for about 2 hours afterward. that helped my body to use fat for energy. also, i did my 2 longest runs (only 10 miles) during the hottest part of the day and didn’t drink water . . . it strengthened me mentally, and made those runs worse on me mentally and physically than any marathon could be.
i guess a lot of my training amounts to what most people would call torture. and that’s why i think anyone can do it, because anyone can endure pain. or maybe everyone can’t, and i’m fundamentally wrong about that.
and there’s so much that goes through my head. i could write a hundred pages on the various things i think about with running, and every factor that i think went into sunday’s race. that’s why my posts are so long, why this is so long . . . i want to explain what i feel, but i can’t. what it boils down to, i guess, is my constant desire to take a closer walk with pre.