BMF Coach Steve's Running Stuff

You’ve put in the months of arduous training. You were ready to perform. You’re working your way through the stages of grief because the event was cancelled. Now is the time to make some serious decisions of consequence regarding your running. Let’s look at the two top scenarios: A: Run an official marathon. Get with your running coach and figure out the best training plan to maintain and re-taper for the race, don’t be tempted to do anything hard this weekend in these horrible conditions, it just won’t be worth the risk. If you do any running, plan on EZ pace and adjust to the conditions, an injury at this point will erase your efforts to date. B: Just say screw it and go run a marathon. There are a number of ad hoc “marathon” runs set up for tomorrow. None of them will give you a true marathon experience, nor will they likely be able to give you any sense of your marathon fitness level due to the conditions of the available routes. Current weather forecast

BEFORE I’ve been training for about 20 weeks leading up to the race, the Dallas marathon being part of the training, along with back to back long runs on the weekends, so I felt I was adequately trained to complete the task, although completely in the dark as to what the experience would be, other than painful at the end. I packed late Thursday night and only slept about 5 hours... my goal was at least 6-6.5 quality sleep hours. Work deadlines and family commitments made planning and getting to the race a little tricky- but we were able to leave at Noon Friday, relieving some of the stress. My favorite sunglasses broke just before we left, I was hoping this wasn’t an omen of the weekend about to unfold. Cathey has been certain for the last few months that I was going to end up needing medical care as a result of this activity, so she came along to crew for me.   THE TRIP DOWN We headed out for Huntsville , stopping for the first time at Bucee’s… where we were duly im