Life is a Marathon, Not a Sprint
It's about that time....my random blog post. So back in September I completed a half Ironman up in Laconia, NH. What some of you may or may not know (given if you read my post or not) is that I went into that race with a bit of hip issue and had it under control prior to racing but it ended up just not being the day I wanted given other issues through the race. OK fine... it was not my day. Now with it being a month or so past the race I'm finally starting to introduce running into my schedule again. The issue/ injury just wouldn't clear up so of course the smart thing to do was to pull from marathon training and the NYC Marathon on November 6th (great news though... I am deferring to next year). Am I happy about this... no. But doing anything injured or in pain is not ideal and I would only beat myself up about my performance and or not finish (which is even worse to your psyche). I guess the point I am trying to get to here is...