20
Mar
2009
Marathon madness
It is often said that the race is 90% mental. After my first marathon I was convinced it was truth, preparing doesn’t just stop at the physical preparation. I went to the office of the amazing Clint Verran today to get some physical therapy. It was while waiting that I overheard some conversation between him and a patient about her upcoming marathon, she was physically taxed, as one is when preparing to run 26.2 miles but more so she was emotionally and mentally drained. Fear was setting in. I could relate, I wondered for days if my own discomforts were all physical. As Clint introduced me we discovered we were both training for the Boston Marathon, then another patient joined in the conversation…three runners, all training for the same race, all at the point in training where fear and doubt start to take their physical toll. The marathon does a funny thing to a runner, it takes months and months of preparation and you have but only one race day. When running a 5k or 10k and you don’t race well, you may pout but you can go run another the next weekend. The marathon is bigger, more demanding, harder to recover from. It is a true test of the will and spirit of a runner. I have 32 days left before my big test….Boston looms, am I ready?
~Happy Running!
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