AM - Finally broke the 8 min/mile barrier today, so I should be recovered enough from the race last weekend for a hard tempo run tomorrow. PM - 2 miles easy.
Short article about Kim Smith and her struggles with the marathon . She is running the marathon at the Olympics and at NYC, and I really hope that she is able to perform to her abilities this year!
“It’s still a scary distance to me because there are so many other
factors that come into it than just running,” Smith said. “I am worried
all of the time about drinking enough, or having to stop to go to the
bathroom. You just don’t know what is going to happen in a marathon.
There is more of an unknown than with the other distances.” Smith says she wrestles every day with internal questions as to why she has had such difficulty. “Maybe
there is something about me that’s just not right,” Smith said. “Maybe
it’s going to happen every time I run a marathon, that it won’t be as
good as how I have run the half-marathon. Take someone like Ryan Hall, who hasn’t really had a bad marathon. I haven’t had any really great
marathons. Maybe it’s my body type. Maybe I’m too skinny. In your head,
you start thinking about all of the things that could be wrong. I just
don’t know." | 
