I am very proud of myself today. I surpassed my goal and my attitude just kept turning in the right direction. I can truly see my self swimming 2.4 miles and biking 110 miles. What just scares me is the marathon. A full marathon is not something in my bucket list so just imagine doing it after all that swimming and riding. However that is part of the event no way around it. So I took on the road today. with a plan of running one mile and then walking 10 minutes and then running another mile, to walk the rest of the 1 hour training. Since I started I had my mind set that I would walk or run for the whole hour. I started to run and dealt with all the pain and other things that started happening. I felt strong mentally so I just kept going. In the en I ran 2 miles with out stopping. I was really proud of that. However I still had to continue on. I had to find a way to keep moving forward and I did. It turns out that I had never even dream about running 26 miles but it turns out I have marched a lot more than that many times. I started remembering the road marches we did while I was in the military and it just clicked. Our attitude then was just to keep moving forward no matter what. So that is exactly what I did. I even started calling cadence and all. As it turns out I still know some of the songs we did while on the marches so singing along meant I can still march at a 15:30-16:00 minute per mile pace. That means that with a year of training behind me I could probably march the marathon and make it to finish walking instead of running. That takes a lot of pressure and encourages me a lot. It felt good it felt really good. I will get better I just know it.
Today unfortunately did not go with out its test. As I approached the 45 minute mark I started to run again. I was in pain from a blister in my right foot but that was not going to bother me after all this is the Ironman not a complaining contest. I mean you have to expect some sort of pain at some point. Despite the pain I pressed on. It was hard this time around to find a rhythm so I was battling mentally to keep on going. Then it happened. A car missed me by less than 2 inches. It was a guy who was racing another car in that street. I wont say much about them but I did yell at them and the adrenaline started flowing very, very quickly. At the end they left with out further incident but I felt startled by what could have happened. I immediately though of it as a test and pushed my self to concentrate again on running and forget the incident. I was not at all successful and could not run again. I did finish a full hour of training. After I finished I was proud vented and in pain but who cared I've just done something I though I could not do. I even had the energy to drop by the pool and swim some 500 meters to cool down and get my aching muscles a little water time. I all I failed mentally after I got rattled by the car but I was strong both physically and mentally to do what I though was not in me. As I said in an earlier post. The mind is who will push the body to do what the body thinks is not possible. Just as it is necessary physically I need to practice mentally. It will take some time but at this point that is my strongest "sport" at the Moment.
Tomorrow 2 hour bike. "lets ride"
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