I did the craziest thing a couple of weeks ago. I signed up for the Chicago Marathon, basically on a hunch that I may or may not be ready for it. Just in case. An insurance policy, if you will. And it's a good thing that I did, because they reached the cap of 45,000 about a week after I signed up. Take that, slumping economy.
Do I want to go the distance? Yes. The Chicago Marathon is my own personal Holy Grail. It haunts me as I go after it year after year. It consumes my thoughts and dictates my life after the goal is unfulfilled. It's like an addiction, a compulsion, to register for the race, even though I may or may not finish.
But I am going to be smart about it this time around. Extra rest days during the week. Getting up at 6am on a Saturday morning to do the long runs. Incorporating races into my training schedule. No more beer. Not eating so much junk. I wrote my training program while watching the NFL draft on Sunday... it officially begins the week of June 7th. That's 18 weeks til the marathon.
I purchased some new books to help me through this one... the updated "Marathon" by Hal Higdon (my copy is old and outdated... and pretty much folded in half), and "Marathoning for Mortals" by John Bingham. I'm not going to win any awards doing this- I just want to finish and capture the grail, so to speak.
I can do this. I think...
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