Hard run with 3x4 min at 5k effort and with equal rest interval. Mainly to wind out some excess energy today. Unfortunately it accomplished just enough to stiffen the hamstring and piriformis again as usual. I can only imagine what would happen if I ever ran another marathon. I would more than likely lose the hamstring for good at this point. Even the doctor keeps telling me to give it more and more time but I've given it months now and exhausted every option so far that is available to me. I'll still run, just not on the level I used to. So I've been wondering for the last while whether it's perhaps time to retire and bow out gracefully now while the getting is good. I've ran some good times in my running career while also sharing and experiencing equally good times with friends and the running community. That being said; again maybe it's time to move on and pursue some other important areas in life now. Ie-career etc. Lets face it I'm 41 going on 42 and it's not like I'm going to make a living or retire at this now anyway. In the end nobody will really remember what place you took or what time in what race except for maybe yourself. By then it may be you yourself will have forgotten.. It will have faded into yesteryear along with so many other times and stats. They; (people, friends and loved ones) will however remember the day you gave them a ride to a race, or the endless miles of jogging and companionship during hard training before and the day you were there to lift them up and boost them onward and upward in those really difficult closing miles. I think most of all just being there at the end to cheer and just be in the moment with them whether they were tearful and disapointed or filled with elation and joy. And perhap even a combination of both:) I just hope one day I will be able to look back and have those memories and not just the ones with the clock in the foreground and the check in the hand... Time to get on with life and move forward:)
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