Well, here I am, less than a week away from running my second marathon at the Marine Corps Marathon. The taper is starting to get at me a little bit but after a successful showing at yesterday’s Runner’s World Half Marathon I’m feeling ready to run. Since I started having some tweaky overtraining related injuries a few weeks ago I decided to let go of my secret time goal for Marine Corps. I shifted focus and decided I want to just PR and have a good race. I’m going to stick to that but I still want (hope) I might have it in me to go for that secret goal. It’s ambitious and I don’t think it’s completely realistic at this point but if I don’t try, I’ll never know, right? Good luck to everyone else who’s tapering this week!
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Good luck. I hope to run the MCM next year. I just finished my taper yesterday with my fall marathon.
I had a “secret” goal also but I decided I would have more incentive to go for it if I told everyone. My secret goal was to BQ yesterday. It didn’t happen but I did PR by 13 minutes!
Go for the gold, you just might get the silver!
Go fore the gold. You just might get the silver… Is brilliant. I’m going to keep that in mind when I run MCM this weekend!
Excellent! I can’t wait to see how you do.
Good luck to you, too!
Thanks so much for the positive thoughts! I am going to go for it, and if I don’t get it, there will be plenty more marathons in my future, I’m sure!
Yes. Always want to be able to live to run another day.
I have a secret goal too. I’m going to go for it and see what happens. Good luck!