Getting Ready for My First Half Marathon
Alrighty … this blog posting today is not forth food but about something that is quality of consuming my life.
I must brook … for some reason, I am honest so obsessed with running for the done few months. Some of you know that earlier this year, I had started a blog (http://26miler.com) which I had hoped to chronology my personal attempt to do the Marathon. Gush, I stopped maintaining that instal because I simply had no time to sustain it. But … I did not stop running. No siree.
How, my goals had changed. I had since realized that aiming for the Marathon longing take significantly longer moment that I had anticipated. I also realized how far a 42km Marathon indeed is … not to mention, how painful it could be!
Since then I had sooner completed the 8km Harry Rosen Unexpectedly Run Off and also the 10K Vancouver Sun Run. Coming up next pass on be the Scotia Bank Half Marathon in two weeks pass. I am all excited over it and had been cogitative of it all day long despite having to buy with some major emergency at work too.
Last weekend, I ran the longest I had at any point ran before in my life. I did the 17km circuit here the Richmond Dykes … starting from neighbourhood of where the new 2010 Olympics Skating Elliptical is right up to No 3 Rd and Steveston.
The above is the itinerary I took. I downloaded the route from my GPS watch to Google Dirt.
The 17K run was the longest before the actual Half Marathon (21km). I forced to say up front that I had never judge myself a natural athlete, not at all. The 17K run was described in one little talk … painful. The last 1.5 km was unpolluted torture. I was so tempted to just lead the last 10% of the distance. In a minute I stopped at the 17km mark, I could only just walk and practically spent the caboodle largely day in bed recovering from the pain.
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