Yesterday I was going to do my long run for the week, but circumstances and commitments conspired against me. So this morning I got out of bed at 7:00 and hit the road for 8 miles.
I'm planning on running in Maryville in June, eight weeks from today. The course there is a 13.1 mile loop that you run twice for the marathon. Now here's something I know about myself. If I'm running a loop and I pass by my starting (and finishing) point, my mind automatically starts thinking of reasons to stop. After all, that's the finish coming up! So in order to train my mind as well as my body, all of my long runs will be a route that takes me out and back by the house or by my starting point, and then I run the same route again. And as I discovered this morning, that pretty much sucks.
I ran up to Pleasant Valley Baptist Church (who, btw, featured Jimmy Carter as a guest speaker within the past couple of weeks - if I had ever thought about any association with that church, their having that anti-Semitic worst president of my lifetime - for now - as an honored guest cured me) and back to my starting point. Sure enough, the thoughts of stopping came up, but I ran the route again. Ugh. The sky was gray and cloudy, the weather was cool, and it had rained a few hours previously. This training won't be my favorite, I can already tell.
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