...is it psychotic to consider a marathon a month or after the half? I have two more months to train, and I am sure that I am ready RIGHT NOW for the 1/2. Should I just train thru the 1/2 and let that be an easier long run that sunday?
I am really driven to finish a marathon, and I don't want to wait and try to train thru the winter for a spring one as I work six sometimes seven days a week in the winter, on top of being a single mom. I am also not against having to walk a bit to get there. It's about the finish, not the method for me.
So, it would be Nov 9 or I wait until the following summer. Ideas? Slaps upside the melon?
I am really driven to finish a marathon, and I don't want to wait and try to train thru the winter for a spring one as I work six sometimes seven days a week in the winter, on top of being a single mom. I am also not against having to walk a bit to get there. It's about the finish, not the method for me.
So, it would be Nov 9 or I wait until the following summer. Ideas? Slaps upside the melon?
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For what it's worth -
Is your hip situation at 100%? Even if it is (and remember, you know your body better than anyone else would), my inclination would be not to try the full marathon. You may be asking to much from your body, especially to do a half for the first time, followed up by a full for the first time. Even if you did walk in part of the latter.
Then again, I know very few people who are as motivated as you when you set your mind on something...
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No.. not a slap upside the melon quite yet.
There are 149 ways to get from here to the 26.2 mile finishline. Many of us have read tales of those logging 15mpw with a 6-mile long run and insanely slogging thru a marathon. And the spectrum of course goes all the way to 100+ mpw and performances outta this world. The real look-in-the-mirror needs to be what do you want out of a marathon? If there is any consideration to time, having a good run, recovering soon and little risk of injury that might tailspin training following the marathon, then I'd say put off the idea for another year. But, and there's nothing wrong with it, if you want to have "the experience", have no qualms of achey walking for several hours and the finisher medal is all that matters, then of course, enter it and get it on.
Being said that there's no "right way" to run a marathon, there are definitely huge advantages to toeing the line in a condition that you'll feel you've trained the best you can and giving it your all will take your running to another level. There's few things in this world as exhilarating as the committment to a time period of training with a purpose, peaking that training and putting together a marathon you can really take to the bank... of course, my :twocents:
There are 149 ways to get from here to the 26.2 mile finishline. Many of us have read tales of those logging 15mpw with a 6-mile long run and insanely slogging thru a marathon. And the spectrum of course goes all the way to 100+ mpw and performances outta this world. The real look-in-the-mirror needs to be what do you want out of a marathon? If there is any consideration to time, having a good run, recovering soon and little risk of injury that might tailspin training following the marathon, then I'd say put off the idea for another year. But, and there's nothing wrong with it, if you want to have "the experience", have no qualms of achey walking for several hours and the finisher medal is all that matters, then of course, enter it and get it on.
Being said that there's no "right way" to run a marathon, there are definitely huge advantages to toeing the line in a condition that you'll feel you've trained the best you can and giving it your all will take your running to another level. There's few things in this world as exhilarating as the committment to a time period of training with a purpose, peaking that training and putting together a marathon you can really take to the bank... of course, my :twocents:
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Yes, the hip is good. The doc still has me coming in every couple of weeks for minor adjustments which I forsee happening for the rest of my running career. It's worth it to me.
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Yes, the hip is good. The doc still has me coming in every couple of weeks for minor adjustments which I forsee happening for the rest of my running career. It's worth it to me.
Then knowing that, and knowing you, go for it.
Then knowing that, and knowing you, go for it.
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i wuv what he says....two cents, schmooo cents, it's worth a million.
and good luck MW whichever way you choose to go --
and good luck MW whichever way you choose to go --
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