Thursday, after my post, I headed out for a run. I basically left my apartment and went a half mile out and back in each direction so that if my knee started hurting, I wouldn't be too far from home.
I ran 6 miles all at marathon pace. It felt easy, I felt strong. I felt great. My plan was to take Friday off, run 4 easy on Saturday and go for 18 on Sunday.
I took Friday off. Saturday morning, I woke up with horrible knee pain. The Pilot and I headed out to Clarendon for Clarendon Day and weren't even there an hour when I said that I needed to go home because the pain in my knee had gotten to a 10 on a scale of 1 to 10.
Since then, there's the pain has somewhat subsided but is still there.
I'm under-trained for this marathon. I came into it recovering from injury and I guess I'm still injured. I honestly feel that it this point, if I decided to push through and run it, I would either not finish...or finish and jeopardize my chances of ever running another marathon.
I think I've known that this decision was coming for awhile, but it was still hard to come by. I love the Marine Corps Marathon. It was my 2nd marathon and my first PR. It's in my favorite city, which I can now, finally call home. The Start line is just down the street from my apartment and I was really looking forward to running my first at home marathon and having my family and friends cheering me on.
There will be other Marine Corps Marathons, but this isn't one I can just say, I'll run next year. The fact is, The Pilot and I are getting married next September, and running off to sneak in an 18 mile run on my honeymoon is just not something I'm interested in doing.
My marathon PR is 4:01:05. I've been trying to go sub-4 ever since I ran my first marathon in 4:08. Do you have any idea how much it kills to be that close to my goal and to not even be able to try for it? I bailed on my spring marathon because I needed a break after running 3 marathons last year, so to be unable to try for that sub-4 distance this Fall is heartbreaking.
There will be other marathons, and I'll eventually get that sub-4 but for now, I'm going to focus on recovering and hopefully getting to a 26.2 Start injury-free in 2014.
I ran 6 miles all at marathon pace. It felt easy, I felt strong. I felt great. My plan was to take Friday off, run 4 easy on Saturday and go for 18 on Sunday.
I took Friday off. Saturday morning, I woke up with horrible knee pain. The Pilot and I headed out to Clarendon for Clarendon Day and weren't even there an hour when I said that I needed to go home because the pain in my knee had gotten to a 10 on a scale of 1 to 10.
Since then, there's the pain has somewhat subsided but is still there.
I'm under-trained for this marathon. I came into it recovering from injury and I guess I'm still injured. I honestly feel that it this point, if I decided to push through and run it, I would either not finish...or finish and jeopardize my chances of ever running another marathon.
I think I've known that this decision was coming for awhile, but it was still hard to come by. I love the Marine Corps Marathon. It was my 2nd marathon and my first PR. It's in my favorite city, which I can now, finally call home. The Start line is just down the street from my apartment and I was really looking forward to running my first at home marathon and having my family and friends cheering me on.
There will be other Marine Corps Marathons, but this isn't one I can just say, I'll run next year. The fact is, The Pilot and I are getting married next September, and running off to sneak in an 18 mile run on my honeymoon is just not something I'm interested in doing.
My marathon PR is 4:01:05. I've been trying to go sub-4 ever since I ran my first marathon in 4:08. Do you have any idea how much it kills to be that close to my goal and to not even be able to try for it? I bailed on my spring marathon because I needed a break after running 3 marathons last year, so to be unable to try for that sub-4 distance this Fall is heartbreaking.
There will be other marathons, and I'll eventually get that sub-4 but for now, I'm going to focus on recovering and hopefully getting to a 26.2 Start injury-free in 2014.