Miles in the bank!

     Friday night, party night...not! In-training for Grandma's Marathon and tomorrow morning it's a 5:30am wake up call. Running with Dave at 6:30am so after a very busy week it's an early dinner and plenty of sleep.
     Tomorrow is 19 weeks out from race day, so this coming week is the last week of 'casual' training. Then the 18 week program begins. I'm really looking forward to the training season, in part because with this mild winter we've been able to maintain a decent fitness level without having to battle the weather too much. Even though we have Feb and Mar to go, all indicators point to a very early spring.
     Most seasoned marathoners know the toughest part is the training. We know what we are in for over the next three to four months and look forward to performing on race day. Newbies seem to focus more on the anxiety of race day, and don't really understand the essence of what the training season is all about.
     I term training as "miles in the bank"...an excellent investment and the only way you can survive a decent marathon pace is to be able to "make a withdrawl" on race day. If you haven't put in the time ( or dimes ), you'll come up short ( broke! ). 
     It takes a race or two before most people discover the benefits of investing in race day. If you have ever tried to explain a race, of any distance, to someone that is training for their first one, you know the understanding really doesn't sink in until after a couple events. And that's ok. 
     We don't know what we don't know. 
     But once we begin to discover the secrets that work for us, it's great to unlock our passion with better direction and more enjoyable results. The journey is always sweeter when filled with self discovery, and no matter the final outcome, if I've been able to make my own investments into my fitness level throughout the training season, I'll gladly take whatever dividends race day provides. 
    

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