I did it. Last week I hit my mileage target and plotted out 50 miles. It felt like a plot, much different than the 50 miles/week that I was doing not too long ago in track. I don't know why it's so hard to increase mileage and get back into the swing of things. When your in the grove, hitting a mileage target of 50 is nothing with even with cross training and intense workouts two or three times a week. A few more weeks at this distance and then I know the 50 mileage range will feel like nothing.
Perhaps I'm tired because of lack of sleep associated with the active Olympic TV watching that's happening at our house. Usually we are in bed by 9:30 pm at the latest. We may be reading, but we are horizontal. For the past week or so, it's hard to get in bed before midnight. Track events seem to be mixed in throughout the evening, and for the last two night the events right before midnight were some of the best highlights. To watch the russian gal hit another world record in the pole vault was great, and then the night before to see Lui drop out of the 100 was heart breaking. The pressure that guy has on him must just be unbearable. He's the rock star of the Olympics, and to not be able to compete is such defeat.
But the established ladies are sure making me excited! 38 year old winning the gold in the women's marathon! Torres winning a very close second in swimming at 41. It's hard, yes, because I really wanted to have a great track season this year, and felt that my body (at 41) was well up to the challenge -- late in the season as I begun to peak, I even felt that a personal best was within my realm. But I'm so jazzed to see many women well into their lives putting it all together to be at the top of their game. Age really is a matter of the mind -- but you need a strong mind to remind yourself at an older age, you need to take care of your self and do all the extra things that you could get away with in younger times (eating, sleeping, stretching -- you know the basic stuff).
Enough rambling today -- I got to get busy. Marc and I are carpooling, and soon I'll be holdiing up the pool -- ugh, not a characteristic you look for in a carpool partner.
More later this week. aero
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