6/29/2012
Finishing up Week 4!! Or as my fellow volunteer phrased it this
morning: 1 month down, 26 to go!
My 5:30AM running pals and I tend to compare it to a
marathon: first few miles/ months are rough, there will inevitably be 1 (or a
few) seemingly insurmountable walls, but then after getting over those walls we’ll
catch the runners high and those middle months/ miles will just slide on by
before we know it, and then those last few months/ miles will seemingly fly by.
Of course, none of us have ever actually run a full marathon… haha, but I’d
like to think that if I can do the PC marathon then one day I’ll be able to run
one as well (sound logic, right?)
Actually, there’s a ~14 mile loop around Namaacha that my
running palls and I want to run before we leave training - it goes up in the
mountains and around the border between Mozambique and Swaziland. We ran it for
about 5 miles yesterday morning and it was absolutely breathtaking running
through the winding 1-lane road with 7ft tall grasses on both sides while the
sunrise slowly painted the sub-Saharan mountain prairies around us. Me and
another volunteer both ran our first half marathons this past year so we’re
relatively familiar with the training regimen necessary to prepare our bodies
for 2 or more hours of running - but we’ll see if we’re actually motivated
enough to actually build up our mileage from 5-14 miles in 1 month! Not to
mention the small obstacle that I only brought my minimalist shoes with me
(which really shouldn’t be used for runs over 3-5mi) and left my trainers at
home…. Oops. L
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAMA!!!
xoxox
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