Over the past few weeks, and healing from my glute medius injury, I have been trying to figure out what my next steps of running will be. I am currently signed up for California International Marathon December 8th as an elite entrant, but I may need to take a little more time to rest and recover.
I had/have so much frustration after Chicago Marathon that I needed to sign up right away for a race to run. After the weeks and weeks of solid training preparing for Chicago, and in my mind, getting prepared to run the best race of my life to this point (an Olympic Qualifying time sub 2:43) it was such a let down. I wanted something measurable to go off of after all my hard work and training going into the race. I wanted to keep my running on an upward climb. Especially coming off of Grandmas Marathon where I crushed my personal record (PR) by exactly 8 minutes.
With everything in mind, I have come to peace with my running at the moment. I realized that I have so many races ahead. I am 26 years old and I have a number of successes ahead along with some failures that make my successes that much more rewarding. I have so much potential and opportunity in the future that I can't let one race knock me down. It is just like in December of 2012 when I ran California International Marathon. The race conditions were horrible and it mentally broke me down (fail). 6 months later, I ran Grandmas Marathon and had a huge success.
My next steps include -
1. Continuing to heal my glute medius & continue to ease back into running (going well so far)
2. Put strength training & yoga back into my weekly routine
3. This winter, reduce my mileage and pick up my speed work - increase my mile pace speed
4. Plan shorter races in the early spring (5K, 10K, Half Marathons, etc)
5. Next marathon - Grandmas Marathon in June 2014
This is my current plan moving forward! I will try to blog at least 3 times per week (every other day).
Please feel free to message me with any education topics you would like me to write about!
I just bought a new book "Running Science" by Owen Anderson. The best part of my blog is learning new material, so I can further educate you!
Back to Happy Running :)
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