After two weeks of recovering from my second marathon, I can feel that my body has fully (?) recovered from aches and pains which the full Mary has inflicted. I have already started my easy short runs a week after October 18 with my spouse. The running fever has again invaded me.
Running a marathon is addictive! Once you have started doing it you can no longer say no to it. It has a secret ingredient that every runner enjoys that no matter what it brings. Indeed running is full of mystery in itself. I cannot explain why we keep on running, enjoying every step, pushing ourselves to maximum, punishing ourselves, yet the more pain, the better we become.
Started my daily workouts last week, speed works, tempo runs and 26 km run last November 7. For this week I did easy runs, 10k race pace, speed intervals and 21k long run with a time of 2:05:21 hours, whew! What a feeling!
Come December 20, 2009, my group TARAYEM (Metro Vigan Runners Club) will be having our 42.195 run which will start at Merge point in Bantay, Ilocos Sur to San Juan, Ilocos Sur back and forth..
To date I have already logged more than a thousand kilometres since I started running October last year. One year has passed and lot of stories to tell and to treasure.
Running indeed has no ending, the process is just continuous, it always the start of an unending process......
Last Saturday, November 14, 2009 I posted another milestone in my running career when we had our long run which started from Merge point to Banaoang View-deck back and forth. We started our run at 5:06 AM. After running for 2:05:09 hours, my watch registered a distance of 21 km with an average pace of 5:56 mins/km. Nine (9) minutes faster than my previous record. (Whew!)
Congratulations to me!!!!
