[661] Happy Lunar New Year

Really nothing to post.  Not much runing is going on in my life.  I love to write race reports but on everything else is plain boring.  I am just going through the motion in life, doing the same thing every day. Putting this post out to say I’m okay. This is actually an old post from October that I did not publish, but still applicable.

My legs are still kind of hurt.  I could not run at my full capacity.  But also mostly is a mental. If I want to run, my legs would heal faster.  Really? Usually. I guess it is good to let it slowly heal. It has been two weeks since my last race.

News.  I got through the waitlist for Rim to River 100 but decided not to run it. As much as I was glad the wait is over, but also I knew the race was not for me.

There’s not much a desire to do the race at this time. There’s always next year.

The Grindstone’s post race funk is strong.  A General lack of motivation and will to run. I tried to tell myself I can’t rest on my accomplishments. I don’t. I never run for the praises of my peers but because I felt like it. Grand slam was just a title. I did it because I like the races and the challenge. I will consider another grand slam run if the opportunity presents itself. 

Something that lifted me up.  A friend did a 50 miler this weekend on a similar course as the Wasatch Front, from East Mountain to Bountiful. It seems so long ago when I was there. I would definitely want to do it next year.  It is in Utah but I felt the race worth the trip.  Where can you spent 15-16 hours doing a 50 miler?  I think that is a fast time for the course.  It probably would take me like 17-18 to go the same distance there. Relatively for my age and condition. (The race is DC Peaks for future signup, and I signed up, probably will be my first out of state 50 miler)

A few more races popped up this weekend.  I have not had the money or motivation to do them. Definitely I would like to do it again like last year. 

One of the races was the Blue Ridge Roanoke Double.  I ran the marathon twice in one day. It was last year but seems like ages ago!

The fun thing is how to avoid scheduling conflict.  There are so many races I want to do but can’t do all of them. In my mind, I kind of know which ones I want to do, but it is so tempting in signing up for all of them. (I took care of the race scheduling until summer.)

Enough said.  Most important factor is money.  I have to be careful since my bank account is like only a third of last year. Currently can only affort about 2-3 races for the whole year. My budget is probably even lower. I kept thinking back to my former office manager who told me don’t go starving to do the things you like. True. It has not come to that point yet.

What I have been doing the last few weeks:

-Played in the snow

-Went to Charleston (for the first time)  (possible will make a trip again there myself next year, either running a marathon or an ultra)

-Did a training run for Holiday Lake and is the reason my legs are trashed for a few days