Today is the second rest day after the long run on Sunday. Keeping the cold pack on the tender area below the ankle. I'll do that a couple of times before going to bed tonight. Tomorrow is a run day. I want to take it easy to reduce risk to the ankle. There are four races coming up one every Sunday - after the coming weekend. The first is a ten miler. The other three are half marathons. I'll skip the 10 as I'm not sure I want to do that any more. That was my backup for NYC marathon qualification. I don't need it as I already qualified for a guaranteed spot. Moreover, skipping a race will make things a bit easy for the ankle. I do, however, want to run all the three half marathons if the pain doesn't aggravate. The first one is in Central Park, New York. It should be two laps of the outer loop of the park and a bit more. Central park has a lot of hills. My longest race so far is 10K. That is one loop around Central Park, and it is taxing. It would be interesting to see how I hold up more than twice the distance on the same course. The following Sunday is the next half in Staten Island. I hear it is a beautiful course and it is flat. That should be interesting as well, as I've never run a flat course! You never know what muscles will complain until you run a different course than your body is used to. The third half marathon is the following week in Morristown. It should have some hills, although the organizers say the course is net negative in elevation - like that's gonna make a difference.
I'm not going to take any risk running these. I will take it easy, and will run each one only if I feel fully recovered from the previous one. Looking back, exactly about a year ago, I ran my first 5K. That was a huge milestone. I felt very excited about running that race. If someone were to tell me that time that I would be running three half marathons back to back every week in a year's time, I would've asked him to get his head examined. Yet, here we are! Sometimes, I can't believe it myself.
Happy running. If I can run, u can run.
I'm not going to take any risk running these. I will take it easy, and will run each one only if I feel fully recovered from the previous one. Looking back, exactly about a year ago, I ran my first 5K. That was a huge milestone. I felt very excited about running that race. If someone were to tell me that time that I would be running three half marathons back to back every week in a year's time, I would've asked him to get his head examined. Yet, here we are! Sometimes, I can't believe it myself.
Happy running. If I can run, u can run.
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