I’m officially freaking out.
There’s only 3 days left and I’ve done all the training I can do before the LA Marathon. The good news is, I’m in much better shape (weight-wise) than last year; the bad news is, I haven’t really kept up the mileage so I’m not sure how (bad) I’ll fare for 26.2 miles. ACK. Basically, my fitness level is still up in the air.
I took a look at my training for the past 4 months and it DOES NOT bode well for this Sunday:
40 miles in December (really curious how this happened!)
12 miles in January (12! Ack! I blame it on the rain [yeah yeah…] and my snowboard trips :))
44 miles in February (not too shabby, but I remember missing a LOT of training runs)
43 miles in March
Compare that to my training for last year’s October marathon:
77 miles in April, 63 miles in May, 43 miles in June, 19 miles in July, 73 miles in August, 77 miles in September… and these also entailed a couple of skipped runs!
My initial goal of finishing at 5 hours and 30 minutes is but a memory. Now I just want to finish; preferably under 7 hours — under 6 hours if at all possible, even! Oh, and survive. +_+
So here’s the new plan: I’m just going to pray (did I mention I was going to try to do all 20 decades of the Rosary?!), eat my Clif Shot gels (1 entire gel every 30 minutes), enjoy the race course, and not think of the miles.
Here’s hoping there will be to beautiful (i.e., COLD!) weather on Sunday!
