Well this morning I decided to enter the lottery for the NYC Marathon! Look at this picture...can you imagine being here at the start of the race? Freaking awesome! I'm quite excited even though I don't expect to get in. You know what kinda sucks though...is that you can get guaranteed entry based on your best marathon or half marathon time. So for the half marathon I would need a 1:37:00...and my best is a 1:37:05 gun time (1:36:57 chip time)...i'm pretty sure they're not as lenient as the Boston marathon where apparently they'll accept you if you're 1 or 2 mins over the cut off time I believe. Anyhow, no worries because NYC is only 2 months after the Transrockies nightmare I've got going on at the end of August (I say nightmare but i'm SUPER excited...just terrified is all lol). So if I get into the race then sweet! And if I don't then maybe once i'm finished Transrockies I'll be relieved that I don't have to continue to train for an upcoming marathon! So welcome to Friday...i'm pretty excited for it and the weekend! I've got a 12 km run at lunch...10kms of which are at marathon race pace. Ohhhh I forgot to mention my swim last night...I made it to 3000m...yay for me. Realistically I should have made up an actual practice in advance but I figured I'd just wing it and make it up as I went along. Not too shabby for my first night back in the pool!
You could run for a charity. It's what I did. Then you get in automatically. But with that said NYC just can't top a trail race!
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This is true but I figure after all of the trail races i've got going on this summer I wouldn't mind trying to run a really fast marathon in the fall and see what I can do! I expect i'll be stronger, faster, fitter by then I hope! :) I never really thought about going the charity route...but I figure i'll just leave it up to the lottery to decide!Whichever way it works out will probably be for the best :)
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Yay for getting into the pool! Half the battle is just getting there and getting in. You made it that far. Way to go. Going armed with a workout is super helpful too. I end up farting around when I don't have something in hand - intervals, time goals etc.
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