Follow the schedule

Turns out there is a reason they have a schedule. You will not be able to complete the long runs, nor the marathon, if you don't follow the schedule. That two weeks in Africa messed up my training. And this week, recovering from the trip itself and the traveling home, messed everything up. Running six miles should not have been the issue it was.

I ran to the three mile mark with our group. I thought I might die getting to three. My body was screaming for me to stop. I told it (okay, sorta told it) that if it got to mile four, I could walk the last two miles.

It did and I did.

Then I was passed in the last stretch by the two folks training to WALK the marathon.

And I said I would stick to the schedule and make the long runs from now on.

Hey, whatever motivates.