run another marathon

I have been debating another marathon in my head for the past two weeks. All the little aches and pains say I should not. They say I should take it easy this winter and get things healed.

I just happened read an article about whether marathons are dangerous. It talked about people who die running them. It had a quote from Jim Fixx, author of “The Complete Book of Running” who died while running back in 1984. He said: “I don’t know if running adds years to your life, but it definitely adds life to your years.”

I signed up for the Mytle Beach Marathon, February 13, 2010.

Let’s get running.

I’d love to do this, so the question I need to answer is:

Do I have another marathon in me??

I signed up for a marathon on November 22! Training started last week. I’m feeling pretty good physically, but mentally…I just can’t get there. I need some motivation and DISCIPLINE!

I ran the Philippine Marathon for the Pasig River in February 2008. The training was grueling, the actual run even more so, but the finish was fantastic!

After that I was running local 15 and 10Ks, and then the team relay (another 10) in the Singapore Standard Chartered.

This year, I want to do it again – and I want to run it in my time goal of 4:30.

I ran a marathon back in 2000 when I was pregnant with my 3rd child. It was my first and last. I couldn’t find the time to keep up with my training afterwards, so I just quit. I miss the freedom that comes from running and the satisfaction of realizing goals that goes with that. I was never an elite runner. Heck, I barely qualify as an athlete. But running was one of those things I didn’t think I could do until I did it. My kids need to see that side of me.

I have ran 3 marathons previously, but over the past 6 months have become lazy and need to get motivated again to start training:)

I have a love/hate relationship with marathons. Half marathons are enjoyable because you don’t feel worn out at the end but I don’t really find marathons fun at all. I’ve only done three yet I fell I must break the 4 hour barrier officially to satisfy my need to run them. The last one that I did was the San Diego Rock n Roll marathon and I was wearing my Garmin Forerunner. I looked down at it showed me having run 26.2 miles in 3:57 but I crossed the finish line having run 27 miles in 4:03:24…yes, I did a lot of traversing on the road during this race!

I want to run another marathon in the next year.

I want to overcome my knee injury (patellar tendinopothy) and start running long distances again. I have run one marathon and loved it but now cant run long distances. The marathon is part of my bigger goal of completing an Ironman triathlon.

Signed up for the Connemara Half Marathon in April. I’ll see how the auld knee holds up this year and then hopefully I’ll do Dublin City Marathon in November