I am humbled. I ran the San Francisco Half Marathon this morning (the first Half) and ran my slowest Half Marathon in years. I did it in 2h14m49s - and to think that I was hoping to do it under 2 hours like I did last year. Wow what a difference a year makes. The good thing about it is that I finished. And I started out feeling pretty good. But around mile 7.5 I started to feel nauseous and dizzy and started to listen to the stuff that was going through my head. I couldn't get out of my head. I also made the mistake of taking a GU while I haven't used GUs in my training. I guess I didn't think it would be a big deal because I've trained using GUs in the past but just not this year. It just didn't taste good and I had to force it down. And that's when my stomach started to bother me. Then I stopped to throw out the GU packet and that's when I started to feel dizzy. So I walked for a little while. Then I started to run again and my stomach just didn't feel great. Then after we got off of the Golden Gate bridge and ran up the hill, I decided that I needed to walk. And so it went. As soon as I realized that I wasn't going to make my goal, I let myself walk the hills. I kind of gave up trying very hard which was disappointing.
But rather than beat myself up, I have taken this as a good learning experience - I am going to change training programs to one that is published by someone associated with the NY Marathon. The program that I'm on now has me running 16 miles this coming weekend, 18 the next, 6 the next and then 20. At this stage, I'm not ready psychologically for those distances and the new plan ramps up to those miles better. It has me running 6 days a week instead of 5 so the weekly miles are similar but the plan is probably a better one for me. We shall see.
I have a huge job ahead of me and I have to take all of this much more seriously. I have been serious but I have allowed travel plans to interfere with my running. No longer.
I was in Louisiana last week and didn't run at all. I did run on Tuesday then had a migraine on Wedensday then the half today. Time to get serious!
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