Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Marathon Maniac

What the heck happened? When I first set out to join the Marathon Maniac group, I was going to run Long Beach in October, Pasadena in November, and Honolulu in December. Bam, I would be in. But Pasadena got canceled due to the fires and now I'm going to qualify with Honolulu in December, Carlsbad on Jan 25th, and Surf City on Feb 1st. Except now the 3 marathons aren't equally spaced apart. The last two are on back to back weekends. Normally I'm daring enough to not care about that, but I've been dealing with right hip, right shoulder, sometimes right foot issues since late October. With the hip giving me problems at the Southern California half marathon this past Saturday, my confidence is pretty much in the crapper.

Originally I just wanted to cruise through both at about 5hrs a piece... but it's looking to be worse. I will do some test runs this MLK weekend to see if I need to reassess. I'm really hoping that I do not have to walk one of these marathons.

3 comments:

Chic Runner said...

So many decisions! I hope you are feeling better soon and are able to join those crazies in the club.

Glenn Jones said...

Say Emil - thanks for stopping by my blog. Take it easy on that hip man. The Maniacs will always be there. If you end up doing some major damage though to the hip, you could be looking at some serious downtime. My brother-in-law's wife is just now starting to run again after a 2 year layoff, and she was a competitve college runner...

Run Mommy said...

Someday..I will be one too! :) Good luck!