How Do They Do It?

Marathon training is in high gear now! Woooo Hoooo! We’re actually near the halfway point of our 9 month journey! I can’t believe it! All is well though! A few weeks ago the leaders timed our mile. My time was 15.8 minutes. Not horrible, but definitely room for improvement. The organizers of the marathon require a 14 minute mile. My run/speed walk will be there or even less by October 9, 2010.

A number of questions go through my mind while I’m out there on the lakefront or during my short runs on the track. The one that constantly comes up is - How do the other runners run the whole way? How do they do it? Whether 1, 4, or 9 miles? I run until I feel that I can’t go on, usually for a few minutes. Then I speed walk for a bit, then I run again. I see many others do a run/speed walk, but there are some who run the whole way. The whole way! I see people talking and running, laughing and running, and of course seriously running! Many times I think just keep running, don’t stop and speed walk. But I end up speed walking some anyway. I don’t feel bad about it though, after all, I am a 40+ novice runner. I will run more and more until I can do it all the way, or as far as I can go, seriously running and maybe speed walking with joy!

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