Objective: easy Weather: 50'sF Some light rain. Windy. Feeling a bit tired today, which is no surprise (strong workout yesterday + heavy housework getting ready for visitors + less-than-ideal hours of sleep). So I just really took it easy today. 15 min abs & weights Random thoughts on running: 1) A friend came over to knit with me last night and I was telling her about the exciting Olympic men's 10K race. She wondered that anyone could stand going around and around the track like that. I just burst out laughing. It's just like people can't understand why knitting is fun! Just pulling loops of wool through other loops, over and over again. She laughed too and did understand then. But we both agreed that people who only knit dish cloths are doing some pretty boring track work. :) 2) I wish I knew what my "real" PR is in the marathon. You train for months like studying for a test, and then on test day your pencil might keep breaking, or there is a fire alarm in the middle of the test -- stuff you have no control over. I look back at my last marathon and think of the things I had no control over: just not feeling "up" that day, having to stop at the bathroom -- twice! -- stuff that really felt different from my normal running self. And it really does feel like I was being tested, and knew the material, but the pencil kept breaking. Now a year has gone by (my spring marathon was cancelled due to illness). Am I just as fit? More fit? Will my advancing age subtract from any added fitness I've managed to gain this year? And what was my true PR a year ago? What would my time have been if I my "pencil" hadn't broken? Perhaps this is a lesson in racing more often so I have a better idea of what is under my hood. But I remain apprehensive and puzzled about my running ability.
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