Well, it has been completed. I have officially ran my second marathon and it was an experience. I must first insert a disclaimer here and state that I recognize that all my running at Disney has colored my impression of how things should go, I mean nobody does it like Disney, and once I took off that filter I was in a much more enthusiastic mood to deal with my run. All that being said I thought it might be helpful if I gave an impression of my experience and I must say after this couple of weeks it is hard for me to truly recall the event in the vivid detail I did for my first, but I now focus on the training ahead for my January run. I think this new mind frame is the meaning behind an old runners saying "your not ready for your next marathon until you have forgotten your last".
this run was a change for me I had been training off and on for several weeks and probably because of that I was having a much tougher time then I should have during the run. I think I hit my proverbial run with some miles left and I don't know if it was mental or physical or a combination of both but my feet turned to concrete and my legs forgot how to work and lastly I'm not even sure I had a coherent thought in my for at least a mile or two. I was simply moving my feet in a forward type motion and recognized that quitting was not an option. I had a moment of doubt mind you a very brief moment, but one no less.
I don't like that feeling and I can tell you that as I plan for my current race I am taking my training much more seriously then I did this summer. I have remembered that if I want to do something well I must stay focused and not take my prior success for granted. I think I can apply that same philosophy of attentiveness to several more areas of my life as well. I will say this that so far my return to training has been pretty good and I have made it a little more challenging and I look forward to a really big payoff in the coming race.
