Preparation for pain (6 days to go)
Next weekend marks the day that I push my body to the outer limits… for this month at least.
Next weekend is the Blackmores Sydney Running Festival: Half Marathon, and my first ever attempt.
I must admit that my anxiety level for punishing myself over 21k’s has started to rise in the past couple of days and I now truly realise that next Sunday morning at 6:30am i’m going to start something that is going to shape how I look at exercise for a long time to come.
This running thing is something that i’ve actively pursued before, but never with the vigour and reliability that i’ve started with now. My commitment to getting fit through putting shoes to pavement is a great experience. It can be done anywhere, with anyone, and with nothing more than a decent pair of shoes, a bottle of water and a commitment to getting your sorry ass out in whatever weather you’re presented with.
I’m grateful that I did do some training when it was still quite cool and i’ve got the long-sleeve sticky shirts to accomodate the freezing weather that will present itself next Sunday (hopefully not raining like it is today when i’m going for a 15k training run!).
But… if it rains, it rains, we run.
I’m just hoping it doesn’t rain 
So for those of you who are warmed up in bed next Sunday morning at 6:30am AEST, spare a quick thought for me starting the process of flogging my body for 2 hours and 20 minutes over long stretches of hills, clims, flats, downhills of bitumen in an attempt to cross a line with no other purpose than to say that I made it.
It is a goal that I want to be writing here for you next week celebrating my achievement, and I look forward to sharing it with you.
Adam
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I swear one of these you’ll do something in moderation.
You know me far far too well Lucy, and therefore you know that the likelihood of this is almost entirely not possible….
(and yes, it’s something I do actually hate about myself!)
Though as they say, i’m still a work in progress
and working towards keeping my sanity under control…. sortof… 
Adam
Alas you are as stubborn as I and change in you and I is like waiting for the polar caps to melt.
InterestingPainfully long and boring to watch.Good luck Sunday. Like with quitting smoking stubbornness can and should also be harnessed for remaining in marathons.
You will do it, and do it well, you are far too persistent not to finish it.
Well put Lucy – I dare say we will read about the pain, the toughness, the negitives & positives etc etc etc Monday – look forward to it Ad. Good luck!
You’re both right on both counts….