My shin has been bothering me and it was a little worse after the race so I took the last 4 days off as a nice beak. I figured it was deserved after a good build up to 20+mile weeks. So what better to celebrate shin pain and a 4 day rest than with marathon training!!!. Because I'm super flighty and fickle I have once again made a 180 in my training and gonna train for a trail marathon on Memorial Day weekend! I've gone from Half-marathon to 30K to 5K and now back to marathon in about a month. So, the race is the sehgahunda trail marathon in Letchworth Park outside of Rochester. I figure it's an easily attainable goal especially since there is little expectation to run fast. The winner last year is a 2:40 marathoner and ran 4 hours so I figure sub 6 would be good for me. Never done a trail race but I have hiked a lot, I better get use to running with a race belt. We'll see how training goes and make sure my shins do ok. I figure it's a good goal that will force me to train, unlike 5k or half-marathon training. Plus I'm really just doing it for the hoodie you get when you finish.
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