Tomorrow I have a half marathon, the DC Rock n Roll half. I thought this would be a good race because it’s a “team race” and it’s near my family so I get to see multiple people this weekend!
Normally I go into a race with some type of goal. It
might be a secret time goal (because I know I shouldn’t have those) or it’s
something I want to accomplish, maybe mentally. I have a bunch of motivation
quotes I’ll read leading into the race. This time… nothing. No quotes. No
goals.
My last 13.1 in November I wanted to break 2 hours which
I didn’t do. This time it’s well within my fitness level to do it but I’m still
not setting it as a goal. Right now I just want to go out, run a strong race,
not worry about the clock and not be limping horribly after the race.
I’m still dealing with a few different lower leg pains
which have only slightly improved. I managed to get into the PT earlier this
week and he confirmed shin splints and posterior tibialis tendon issues (are
those the same thing?). I got needled what felt like a few hundred times in my
lower legs, taped up and off I went. The needling didn’t seem to help as much
as it normally does though. Still doing a ton of rolling and self-massaging and
now icing. So we’ll see come tomorrow morning where all of that got me. I had
to laugh when I went to reference a book for some mobility exercises and it happened
to open up to this page…
So I’m off to VA in a few hours. It honestly doesn’t even
feel like I’m racing tomorrow. Maybe that anxiety from racing is slowly going
away with each race. That would be nice.
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