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Summer Training
As the summer gets hotter and moves into August, we start
finding out really cool stuff about ourselves. The distances that kicked our
butts a month or so ago are now "easy runs." Our bodies have
adapted to the heat and are cooling off much more efficiently. That
"Where's my stocking cap?" feeling prior to going out for a run has
become a distant memory.
August 1995. I was training for my very first marathon. Only 20
years ago. I was planting water bottles at the 4-corners outside of Martin so
that I could run around the square in different directions without ever going
back past my house and getting tempted to "take a break". I'd run
4, maybe 6 miles and be back at my bottle exchange. I'd try to eat a Power
Bar, and that was back when you could break a tooth on one if it was a cold
morning. I'd start before 5am because I knew that I'd need the rest of the
day to recover from 16, 18, 20, 22 miles. I spent more time on my feet than I
ever had.
It was that perfect combination of pain and happiness. It was
the hard time of the training cycle, when doubts as to one's ability could
creep in. But I discovered three important things:
1. You actually do have enough strength to get through the
miles. If you have to walk a little, or a lot, you can still do it.
2. Running is not boring. I got to see lots of things along the
way. I smelled different smells, listened to birds I never noticed before. It
was like my senses were awakening as my body got stronger.
3. The next time you do this distance, it will be SIGNIFICANTLY
easier.
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Kenneth Williams, @MarathonKoach.
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