Marathon Update
Oct. 10th, 2009 05:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sharelleSo this year's Marine Corps Marathon is in two weeks. I'm getting ready for my longest run tomorrow (a 22-miler), and will then taper off until the big day.
The biggest problem with training this time around has been my calves, and it's been bumming me out. I spent the time from May through September uber-psyched: I felt fantastic, I was running well, my pace was excellent, hills were no problem . . . in short I was physically great. Not a kink in the machine.
Then about 6-7 weeks ago I started to get these horrible tight feelings in my calves. (Like rock-hard clenched fists, which ached with every step.) And it hasn't gone away since.
The pain doesn't keep me from running - actually they don't really start to hurt until I stop - so it hasn't interfered with my training too much. (Aside from slowing me down a bit.) But it has fraked with that general euphoric feeling of unstoppable-ness that I had previously been feeling. I've been going to the chiropractor and drinking loads of this stuff to combat the lactic acid buildup that has apparently been plaguing me, but my state of mind is not as upbeat as it was.
I'm still going to finish the marathon on the 25th, and I still hope to get my time to where I want it. I'm just bummed that I don't feel as invincible as I had.
The biggest problem with training this time around has been my calves, and it's been bumming me out. I spent the time from May through September uber-psyched: I felt fantastic, I was running well, my pace was excellent, hills were no problem . . . in short I was physically great. Not a kink in the machine.
Then about 6-7 weeks ago I started to get these horrible tight feelings in my calves. (Like rock-hard clenched fists, which ached with every step.) And it hasn't gone away since.
The pain doesn't keep me from running - actually they don't really start to hurt until I stop - so it hasn't interfered with my training too much. (Aside from slowing me down a bit.) But it has fraked with that general euphoric feeling of unstoppable-ness that I had previously been feeling. I've been going to the chiropractor and drinking loads of this stuff to combat the lactic acid buildup that has apparently been plaguing me, but my state of mind is not as upbeat as it was.
I'm still going to finish the marathon on the 25th, and I still hope to get my time to where I want it. I'm just bummed that I don't feel as invincible as I had.
