Registered for the Marathon
Well I’ve gone and done it.
I registered for the Austin Marathon taking place on Feb 14th, that’s right, Valentine’s Day, talk about inconvenient. On that day I shall run 26.2 miles in hopefully under 6 hours. If I do that, then I can cross it off my list. Even though I didn’t meet my distance marker of 15 miles by December, I decided to go ahead and fork over the $130 DOLLARS! it takes to register. That’s pretty freakin expensive for me to run so far. “Oh yes please I’d love to run until I piss blood, but I can I pay for it too, that would really be lovely. Shall I bend over again?”
Apparently you do get a chip which marks your exact times and i think you can track me on the website live. Plus a t shirt and a medal. Totally worth the money…right?
I really wanna do this BECAUSE it’s so difficult. The running is taxing me more mentally then physically. I’ve decided that it’s really difficult for me to run for long periods of time and this cold weather is not helping me WANT to go outside and run. So Im just gonna run short distances, max of 10 miles and then just bust the whole thing out the day of. I’m hoping the energy of the thousands of people around me will energize to the finish line. Plus all I have to do is keep a steady pace of 12min miles, which is pretty easy to do. In the mean time, I’ll just keep up the running, committing to a total of 10 miles a week at least. wish me luck.