Soon, very soon

Only 14 more days to go to my first marathon. I think this time will go too fast. And now is already the time when there’s nothing I can add to my training. If last 6 months were not enough, then they are not enough, in 2 weeks I can do more harm than good.

Bad thing is that during last 7 days I couldn’t do any training, because on 2nd of Sept was half-marathon race and I’ve been quite tired after that. So I just tried to rest from that race for the first half of the week, but after that came out of the blue sore throat and headaches. There is no way I’m going to risk getting even more ill by running in such condition. I’d choose not to run for 2 more weeks and just walk the marathon than not to go there at all. Darnit, I’ve been waiting for this event since November of 2005! I think my emotional stress has had at least some part of this last period tiredness and ‘kind-of sickness’, you can read about the reasons what cause the stress from my previous posts about religion.

At least half-marathon race went well, my net time was 1:28:18, which is just what I targeted – to run under 1:30 or thereabouts. If I’d run 10K, I’m sure I’d made new PR, because inside that 21,1K I ran first 10K in record time. It feels so good to be in shape, I recommend it to everybody! Yes, for me to to get in this shape meant to run ~600km in 6 months, usually 3 times per week (which is not much, I want to run more, but unfortunately don’t have time for this), but it’s worth every second spent.