A Bit Off Schedule Already... Tuesday, January 28

I was supposed to run 10km this morning, ya, that didn't happen. 

I'm only on day two of training camp and already I've fallen off the training schedule it apparently would seem.  I slept in which meant I woke up at 10:20am and had but a little over an hour until I had to get ready and head to Hulk's.  I was supposed to have the follow-up doctor's appointment to yesterday's appointment but, considering I slept in, that didn't happen either.  Not really going as planned, oops.  I'll get in my runs this week though, no worries.  I'll run tomorrow and then run on Thursday, my off day for running.  

I looked up the previous years' dates for the Cheonan spring marathon and the second and last weekend in April seems to be the assumed date.  They'll be letting me know in the first week or so of February. I'm banking on it being set for the last Sunday in April and today I planned a running schedule accordingly.  

A running friend of mine suggested a particular 18 week full marathon schedule but I had to change it because, if my estimated race date is correct, I only have 14 weeks until race day.  Fourteen weeks isn't a lot but it's two more weeks than I previous thought so that's super.  Consequently, I should be in my first week of full marathon training but due to the assumed date, I've had to start following the schedule at week six.  

I still am unsure about whether or not I'll be running the full marathon in the spring but I really want my first ever marathon to be done at one of the two yearly races done in Cheonan.  After all, Cheonan is my Korean hometown -- I've lived here for almost 10 years now.  My thinking is this, do the full marathon in the spring, to say that I did a full, and then train for run a more prepared, better timed full in the fall.  And then there's my boxing.  I really don't know what I'll be doing in the fall, I may be travelling to Japan to fight and if I do, training for a full marathon will most definitely take a back burner seat.  The phrase "don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today" comes to my mind here.  Things will always come up, sure, but if I have the chance to run a full marathon now than perhaps I should do it.  Something might come up in the fall.  The fact of the matter is I don't yet have a fight schedule for the present so why not train for a full marathon?!  Exactly, so I'm training now.  

Participating in the spring Cheonan races has been something I've been doing for numerous years now.  I first participated in it in my first year.  I ran it with my ex-fiance actually.  I also ran it once with Q, my ex-boyfriend.  For a few years now I've been running it with a couple of my boxing buddies and a few of my boxing teammates.  Black Skinny and I have ran it a couple of times together now and I anticipate him running it again with me this year.  I also anticipate taking a big group of Hulkies with me.  Last year I took Flipside Fitness and Hulk's Boxing and I also opened it up to other foreigners wanting to run it.  We had asked those who participated to buy and wear the t-shirt we had specifically made for the race and almost everyone did.  Our crew of runners looked so great dressed in their green Hulk shirts and I was quite proud of their positive energy and enthusiasm.  I remember just how hyper I got and boy was I super hyper!  When I get really hyper I tend to get super touchy and rather aggressive.  I'm talking about upper cutting people in the bum and grabbing people by their shoulders.  Of course my punches aren't meant to hurt them and I don't punch hard but it's me trying to let the overdose of energy in my body escape.  

But what about this year?  If I run the full marathon, are people going to wait until I'm finished or are they going to leave beforehand?  Last year I finished the half marathon not much later than many finished their 10km race so the timing was great but a full marathon makes the situation so much different.  I'm expecting to be running for a solid 4 hours, probably longer.  In a perfect world, my Hulkies would be yelling on the sidelines, screaming at me to continue.  A few of them would jump over the side barriers and run with me for the last 500 meters or so, giving me a much needed burst of energy to get me to the finish line.  I'm hoping to get Black Skinny to participate in the full marathon with me despite knowing full well his long legs and pro star running pace will kick my sorry Polish butt but at least I'll have someone waiting for me at the finish line beyond Snickers.  Snickers is kind of expected to be there, he's my husband, but I want another runner or friend to be there too.