Today saw my last significant training run, a steady 12 miler in the sunshine along the Pill Track as far as the Mosaic Turds (if you've seen them you know where I mean) and home again. There will be a couple of small runs during the week, just enough to keep the legs loose, but nothing even close to taxing. Schedule is asking for a speed session on Tuesday. Ha! Like that's gonna happen. Sorry Schedule, but I'm your slave no more.
Ooh, that feels a bit frightening. Schedule has been a friend in many ways over these long weeks. It's hard to imagine how the last 4 months would have been without Schedule casting her guidance/dark shadow over my life. Love her and bless her, she's been a hard task master, mildly abusive at times, but she knew what needed to be done. And with her help I'm confident that I'm ready. Without her standing by me, guiding my choices of how to spend my days (why would I want to do anything else but eat, sleep and run anyway?!), I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be feeling this way. Sure, I also possibly might not be feeling the leg pain that I'm still feeling and consciously ignoring, but hey...
Tough love is what I've had from Schedule. And you've gotta respect that.
Passions still run high though. When I was running today I did have a clear vision of taking a match to Schedule and burning, burning, burning her. Thought it would make a nice final photo for the blog. Let's wait and see on that one.
So, here's to the final week. Thanks for hanging in there with me, y'all.
Hoo-bloody-rah! Looks like we're gonna make it ;o)
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