Tomorrow I am doing a 14 mile trail run and I am honestly a little anxious. This will be a long run for me and then to add the elevation gain/loss of Wildwood trail makes it a hard run.
The one saving grace for me, IMHO, is that I have picked up the book Chi Running, and my form is getting in line, and the effort I feel while running is much easier, at least on the muscles and joints, my aerobic still has to work. So, I don't feel nervous about my legs making it, I will WALK IT if I have to. What I am nervous about is that after 5 or 6 miles, I am meeting a friend, who usually makes me work hard when we both start fresh, so now I will have an hour in my legs, and I will bury myself in the pain cave to keep up if I have to, most days. My goal will be to not let him set the pace, and if he pulls away, just let him.
The only other area that I am nervous with is hurting myself on the trail. Most common injury would be rolling an ankle. My problem is I can't resist the trails, so I will be going regardless.
Friday, February 13, 2009
14 mile trail run tomorrow
Posted by Nick at 11:09 PM
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Hope you are able to suck it up and let him go if you need to. You are training for the Eugene Marathon, not a weekend trail run with your buddy. The closer I got to PDX last year, the more coach had me do the middle parts of my long runs at planned marathon pace. Otherwise, the long runs were pretty easy. Taking it easy now will pay off in the future.
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