Hey, what happened to Workout Wednesdays?<\/p>\n
Well, for the past few weeks, those would be pretty boring.\u00a0 Basically, I ran an amazing half marathon on February 15, then I went on a cruise and ran an awesome 5K, got home, caught my brother’s cold, and haven’t been fully healthy since.\u00a0 I’ve still got a lingering cough, but I’d say I’m on the mend.\u00a0 The super dry air probably hasn’t helped, so thank goodness for a warmish, rainy day.<\/p>\n
I did get through 8 miles of speedwork last night, which was impressive, since it’s the longest I’ve rune since my half marathon.\u00a0 It felt pretty good.\u00a0 Well, as good as speedwork can feel, anyway.\u00a0 The problem definitely wasn’t my lungs.<\/p>\n
On another subject, a coworker recently mentioned to me that she was thinking about trying to run the Chicago Marathon.\u00a0 She and I work in different departments, but met because we both have running related stickers on the back of our cars.\u00a0 She’s never done a marathon and just isn’t sure that it’s for her.<\/p>\n
I told her that while I didn’t plan to run another marathon anytime soon, I had done two and it was definitely worth doing.\u00a0 There’s only one way to find out if a marathon is for you and that’s to try.\u00a0 If she’s been doing half marathons, she’s already on the right track, and Chicago is certainly an awesome first full, from what I’ve heard.<\/p>\n
So this advice goes for all of you who are thinking about marathons.\u00a0 Yes, the training does take up a bunch of time, but it’s certainly an accomplishment to run those 26.2 miles.\u00a0 Some people will tell you that after one, you will be hooked.\u00a0 After one, I was unsure.\u00a0 So I ran another one.\u00a0 And I decided it wasn’t for me, but I definitely don’t regret those two marathons.\u00a0 Now I have done it, I know I can do it, and I can check it off the list.\u00a0 Maybe I’ll run another one someday, maybe I won’t.\u00a0 But it’s certainly worth doing once.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hey, what happened to Workout Wednesdays? Well, for the past few weeks, those would be pretty boring.\u00a0 Basically, I ran an amazing half marathon on February 15, then I went on a cruise and ran an awesome 5K, got home, caught my brother’s cold, and haven’t been fully healthy since.\u00a0 I’ve still got a lingering […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n