With a twenty mile run/walk under her belt, accomplished yesterday beginning at 4:14 in the morning, I’m even more confident that my wife will accomplish another milestone when she takes on the challenge of running a 5K, half marathon and a full marathon in a span of three day. That’s 42.4 miles in three days for those who haven’t a clue the distances of marathons.
Unshaken by the challenge, she gained some personal confidence when she easily ran and walked the 20 mile training run, part of which was run in our mall’s parking lot and part in our neighborhood’s county park.
Confidence supersedes anxieties.
Accompanying her on my road bike, I liked the county park half over the initial mall run. Sitting on the bike’s saddle for four and a half hours, at slow speeds, isn’t exactly exuberating in my book. Being able to open up the speed while in the park somewhat alleviated the agony of sitting on a small saddle for hours.
There remains one more training run of any significant distance before Disney, the intermediate distance ten-miler taking place next week. I’m looking forward to being her water boy and running/biking companion.
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