Thinking of Mrs. R

In your honor, tonight's dinner was a wedge salad. It had most of the important ingredients. The main ingredient it was missing was your company.

almost one sixth

Training for a southern marathon has been going well with the normal ups and downs. I don't know how the body does it, but I am amazed at a few things that happen during training.

First, I am amazed that body and mind sometimes have a small skirmish when it comes to any of the 6 X 18 workouts. Said another way, sometimes, when I am walking into the gym, I get the distinct feeling that I am becoming more and more tired with each step I take toward the treadmill. The feeling usually goes away about 400 meters into the run of the day. The mind somehow convinces the body that the workout will take place and there will be effort and that's that. With that, the body releases its tiredness and gets into the workout.

Second, I am amazed that from the beginning to the end of the training, the body adjusts, gets stronger, gets used to running longer and longer distances, culminating in the 18, 19 and 20 milers (training) and the 26.2 of the marathon. Eighteen weeks before that, the body wasn't able to go more than a few miles without being done for the day. (As a bonus, this principle of practice and training works for a LOT of other things - almost everything, in my opinion).

Almost three weeks of the eighteen have been completed. I can feel the increased endurance and wind and strength. Only a little over fifteen weeks to go to success in the southern run.

Have a good one. KipK