run a marathon

my running over christmas break was disastrous—and by ‘disastrous,’ i mean ‘i never went.’

but i’ve ramped back up really, really quickly. ran 12 miles today. never run that far before. finished very strong. stride never got sloppy. very good run.

and by the way—i never ever ever run when i do not hurt. it’s not a sharp, i’m-injured pain. it’s a throbbing, what-the-hell-are-you-doing pain from my knees down. it never, ever goes away. in my mind, i should get some sort of kantian extra credit for gutting it out every single run.

been running for 5 weeks or so. ran 8.2 miles yesterday at 10:05 pace. never run that far before in my life. not ready to do it again today, but i felt pretty darn good today. not really very sore.

i’m a little ahead of schedule. i wanted to be at 8-10 miles by the end of the year. i’m pretty confident i’ll be able to do 10, maybe a bit more just for good measure.

and my fear of boredom has not yet been realized, thanks to a running partner and (when she’s not running with me) an ipod. god bless apple.

my best friend has run a bazillion marathons. i’ve run zero. confession: running 26.2 miles isn’t what’s hard for me to think about. what’s hard is training to run 26.2 miles. another confession: i’m really afraid i’m just going to be bored with the whole process, and make no mistake, boredom is completely anathema to me.

so the bottom line is that i’m doing this because i want to say i’ve done it, but i’m skeptical as to whether or not i’ll enjoy training or actually doing it.

i’m scheduled to run the oklahoma city memorial marathon in april ‘06. i’ll start training in late ‘05.