A whole month blogging hiatus! Yikes! Recovering from my marathon has been tough. I haven't been injured. But my running mojo has disappeared, and although I keep trying find it, I haven't been particularly successful.After the marathon, it took about two weeks for me and the family to fully recover from our ailments (which included a ridiculously scary Emily vomiting episode about 5 days after the marathon).
With recovery in full swing, I started running regularly again. I even did a few speed workouts, which went quite well. I thought I might try to run some fast 5K's this summer. It's been a long time since I've broken 20 minutes, but I've been pretty close the last couple years. Well I ran a 5K last week (see awful picture above), and I was sorely disappointed. I wound up running 21:09. Granted it was at noon in 90 degree heat and I was the 6th overall finisher out of 50, but not even breaking 21 minutes was a huge disappointment. Also, my knees were killing me afterwards. Not IT band hurt. I know my knee issues aren't caused by running. It's from being on the floor a lot with Emily. The last few months we've moved her diaper changing area to the floor (just to be safe). It's a killer on my knees...
Even before the 5K, my running has just been lackluster. I'll have a good day here and there, but mostly I'm just blah. Part of the problem is sleep. I average 5-6 hours of sleep a night, which simply isn't good enough for me, but that's where I am. Emily is the happiest, cutest baby during the day, but she really struggles in the sleep department at night.
I had been planning on running the BayState marathon in October. After Providence, I told my friends and family that I'd be doing the half instead. I woke up this morning and thought to myself...I want to run the marathon in October. I don't know why, but I do. Nick told me I need help, to which I replied "good point, maybe I should get a coach." He shook his head and said, "that's not what I meant." Nick tells me fairly regularly "You're crazy, I love you, but you're crazy with a capital K..."
So here I sit, thinking about running BayState. I guess I'm still undecided, but right now I want to run.
5 comments:
While you are thinking, think about Mt. Desert, ME marathon in Oct. (a hilly slow marathon for me)
I lost my mojo, too, and have no excuses! I missed you! Must have been rough with the little ones!
Do Baystate! I just registered so will be there. Maybe we could do a few runs together:) I have no idea what pace I will be training for, but it will not be 3:06 this time, even though my HM pace predicts that. I am slower by about 5 min in the marathon.
lol at the "help" definitions. it seems like a good number of bloggers have been waffling over a fall marathon... myself included.
You could always do the Hyannis marathon in Feb.
Good plan! Fall marathons are great, the weather should be crisp and perfect! Unlike your recent 5k.
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