While looking up information on how to use the Cho-Pat effectively I ran across a blog from a woman who ran the Baltimore marathon last year. It was her one and only marathon, and the more I read, the more her training experience sounded EXACTLY like mine. I was excited when I read her initial reports with the Cho-Pat and saw in her archives that she had finished the marathon -- until I read her race report. I really, really hope that's not what I'm in for, or I'm doomed.
So after my run today, which was only so-so, as I said, I went for a bike ride with the Girl Scouts. It was just 6 miles each way, on the Huckleberry, so it should have been trivial. But on the way back, about a mile into it, I crossed the steel bar that joins the trail to an old railroad bridge, and it had a about a half-inch rise with a fairly sharp corner, which I nailed at full speed (I was more concerned about trying to avoid hitting poky scouts, so I didn't see it until too late). Very shortly thereafter my tire went flat. I pumped it up again, but I didn't have a spare, and it didn't hold air for very long. I finally had to get Daniel to pick me up, and the other leader went on with the girls. So I failed again. You can see why I'm not feeling very optimistic about exercise these days!
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Hey, she finished, didn't she? I call that success for a first marathon.
I'm glad the Cho-Pat band can reduce your pain to a manageable level! Can you work on your stamina with more time on the bike/elliptical/pool jogging while only slowly increasing your distance running again? And it looks like you have more time between getting the band and doing the marathon than she did, so you're in better shape there.
Dead rats, though? I suppose that's better than live rats, but UGH.
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