Last night I brought Mason to swim at Crawfish Aquatics.  During his two hour practice, I did my best to do my workout which ended up being about 7.2 miles.  It wasn’t the best, but I am suffering with some leg issues right now.

Anyway, after my run I went inside and chatted with fellow team members, Weesie & No Show(Nancy).  We talked about the heat and the unbelievable funk permanently emanating from our shoes and running clothes.  We talked about the upcoming races.  And we talked about our training and long runs.  No Show had just done a 15 mile run on Monday and made the comment that she only has four more long runs left.

Really?  Only four more?  That made me nervous and excited at the same time.  Nervous because that means the race will be here soon and I have more work to do.  Excited because that means the race will be here soon and my work may almost be done.

This afternoon, I did a short 3.25 mile recovery run.  For the whole run, I was like a kid on Christmas Eve waiting to open my presents.  Because while I was running, I planned on counting the long runs and workouts I had left!  I could already imagine having a board on the wall with a low number on it and just marking them off after each run.  And then it will be time to rest up and do the race.  Ooooh!  I am so excited!

And then I looked at my plan.  Somewhere in the back of my brain I should have realized that it was all a fantasy.  I counted my long runs and I have 6 more over 13.1 miles including a 20 miler and two 22 milers.  But that is only 6 long runs.  Maybe I will be cutting out some of my speed/stamina workouts…….nope.  I have 10 more speed workouts.  And 6 more easy runs (not as fast as speed, not as slow as recovery).  And 14 more recovery runs.

Well crap, that is 36 more workouts before the marathon!  So much for that brilliant idea.  I don’t think I will start my countdown quite yet.  Maybe when I hit December, I will come up for air and see where I am again.  Until then, I will just keep my head down and keep moving forward!

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