It's been four years since I last ran a marathon, that makes it sound like I've been running for a long time but I don't feel like I have. I guess I just gave up on that distance pretty early on.
I'm a little nervous about the Stone Cat Marathon tomorrow, I know I can cover the distance but it's a scary distance to race. The Stone Cat course is easy enough that I should be able to run a consistent pace throughout, I'm just not sure what that pace should be. I don't want to go out too fast and have a bad second half of the race, and I don't want to go out too easy and miss the opportunity to run to the best of my ability. I'm also a little nervous about my knee, it was bothering me a little bit last weekend. I took it easy with my runs this week and felt fine, but racing for nearly 4 hours could easily bring it on. Yesterday I went to see Michael Gaige for a massage at Maine Running Company. He immediately identified the muscles in my quads that were responsible for causing the knee pain and worked them over pretty good. I'll spend a little time on the foam roller tonight and theoretically I should be fine for the race.
Here's what I'll be listening to on the drive to the race:
Bring it on!
4 comments:
Good luck!
Good luck tomorrow...I think I would let my body set the pace for the first half and then re-evaluate for the second half....if you go to slow you could have the excitement of sprinting the last 5K......everyone likes to watch a strong finish and you pass so many runners!
Needs more Journey.
Good luck!! I'm too late to offer any advice, but I'm sure you will tear it up out there!!
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