Realizations

My marathon is on Halloween, which is about 3 weeks away. I have a different feeling about this one that I did my first one. Things are going well as far as training and I'm pretty sure that I will make it to race day without having any injuries but this has come at a price.. weight gain.

When I signed up for the Marine Corps Marathon I decided to suck it up and go 'down' to a Novice III program from Hal Higdon instead of the Advanced I that I did before. My main reasoning was because Novice III had me running 3 days a week as opposed to 5 and it had me training longer (24 weeks instead of 18). This meant that I would have less wear and tear on my legs and I would get to rest them more. What I didn't realize was that it would mean essentially mean that I was doing steady state cardio for 4 months on top of not having as much time to workout due to my crazy schedule.

Hence, 6 lbs. I weigh more than I have in years and I'm highly disturbed by this. At this point, I have 3 weeks of training left and I am injury free so I don't want to start doing all kinds of crazy intense plyo to get the weight off. I just want to make it through the marathon and then I am going back to plyo, intervals, weights, and running 5 days a week. I can't wait to get back into it. I'm sorry to say no more marathons for a long while. I will be doing some halfs but those are manageable. I may be hanging up my marathon shoes.. it kind of makes me feel like a failure to say that but then again it's not too shabby to run 26.2 miles twice, 20 miles 4 times, 18 miles 3 times, over 15... countless.. 13.1.. pssshhhtt.. that's nothing.

I will let you know how MCM goes.. I suspect I will be just fine.