Queen of bad ideas
| June 12, 2016 | Posted by Melinda under Uncategorized |
It really would be a horrible idea to run a 100 miler this fall right?
Intellectually I KNOW this. But that annoying optimistic part of me says that my long runs are a wild success and perhaps I have more fitness than I give myself credit for, and that mental “toughness” that I absolutely needs to be back so I can slog through longs miles on the trail is definitely coming back.
That means I should do it right? Just go for it? Succeed gloriously or go down in the brilliant flames of defeat?
5 months between now and then.
So short. But it stretches out before me just long enough to make me think of the possibilities.
Like a Western State 100 ticket.
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Pic after a recent run. My hair tie fell out of my french braid and I ran about half the run with my hair down. It was SO MUCH COOLER. The movement of my haif and having it loose felt like a 1000 little fans on my scalp. My other revelation on this run? If I engage da butt and da hamstrings not only does my running form improve….but I no longer feel like a deformed spider lurching down the street.
What I posted….
3 years ago: 10 reasons Farley didn’t get to canter
4 years ago: OK OK OK…
7 years ago: Tailing, and part 2 of tailing
Well — if you were your horse, would you enter yourself?
Maybe. LD, a fifty and see how it goes. It’s actually exactly what I’m doing to Farley this year lol.
Then sounds reasonable to me, lol!