I've reached the point in my training where now I feel like I am actually training for a marathon. All the other distances I've been running thus far have been under 21.1km. However, this Saturday I am running a 23km run for my LSD (long slow distance). From this point on, every new distance I run will be the farthest I have ever run in my life. This realization has made me reminisce back to last September when I ran my first every half marathon, where every distance was completely new, a new accomplishment every week. I remember hitting that 20km mark, running up University, and feeling a lump rise in my throat, tears come to my eyes. I remember feeling, in that moment, that I was going to do it, nothing was going to keep me from crossing that finish line.
I'm looking forward to having that feeling again. Running may come easily to some people, but it never has to me. This time last summer, I was training for my first 10km race and that distance seemed astronomical.
I'm proud to say I've come a long way in a year and hopefully this time next year I will be racing towards even better things.
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