It's been a few days since I made my fateful decision about dropping out of the Valley Harvest and I must admit that I've been pretty bummed out about the whole thing. Of course, there's really not much I can do about it, so I guess I'd better just suck it up.
And then this morning, things changed. Again.
I was in the shower thinking about how I was going to stay motivated until January, when I could start full-out training again. I tend to lose interest in things rather quickly, so I need lots of motivation to keep me focused on my goal. Trying to keep up a maintenance program for 6 months was going to be hard for me.
As I've mentioned before, I've really only ever been interested in the full 26 miles because running a half marathon is really quite easy (distance-wise, anyway). So if the distance itself wasn't going to be a challenge, I started thinking about what I could do to turn it into one.
When I ran the Bluenose back in May, it took me 2:35 to run the first 13 miles. If I'm ever going to crack the 4-hour mark for a full marathon, I'm going to have to bring that time down to less than 2 hours.
Ding! There's all the motivation I need right there.
And so the new plan is to run the Valley Harvest half-marathon and to do it in less than 2 hours. If I'm successful, it'll push me a long way towards breaking that 4-hour mark for the Bluenose next May.
- Mike
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