littlegreydonkey
DIS Veteran
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- Nov 7, 2003
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Hi there - wow I missed a lot again. Congrats Howard, Congrats Dave, and that time is great. It's also great you've entered the full, took me years to pluck up the courage!!! Oh, and I too have been to Star Wars village in Tunisia, seem to remember having dinner in a cave, never having sat through one of the movies it didn't mean so much to me, but my friend was overly excited and kept shrieking something in a very high voice and muttering 'these are not the droids you are looking for'.
So, re the wall conversation, it was the reason I didn't want to do a marathon, I had this vision of this evil thing that hit every marathoner, leaving them in pain, snivelling and with no bladder control (and you wonder why I was so scared!!!) but it never came. I admit that at 19 miles when you hit a very small hill that feels like a mountain on the course, I thought 'what am I doing' but then happy songs came on the ipod so that was that gone. Also, at 21 miles when I had another brief, 'why am I here' moment, I walked in a sadly jaunty fashion, singing away to myself in an attempt to fool myself into thinking I was just out of a stroll. Mind you, all of these tactics may explain why I had the slowest time of all the WISH runners. But fact is I have actually felt worse in half races that I hadn't trained for than I felt at any point in the marathon. Remind me of that next year when I start my Goofy training won't you.
Anyway, got to go back to work, got a relatively quiet week this week hence my reappearance. Will make more time come June 3rd when DL training begins though. Helen
So, re the wall conversation, it was the reason I didn't want to do a marathon, I had this vision of this evil thing that hit every marathoner, leaving them in pain, snivelling and with no bladder control (and you wonder why I was so scared!!!) but it never came. I admit that at 19 miles when you hit a very small hill that feels like a mountain on the course, I thought 'what am I doing' but then happy songs came on the ipod so that was that gone. Also, at 21 miles when I had another brief, 'why am I here' moment, I walked in a sadly jaunty fashion, singing away to myself in an attempt to fool myself into thinking I was just out of a stroll. Mind you, all of these tactics may explain why I had the slowest time of all the WISH runners. But fact is I have actually felt worse in half races that I hadn't trained for than I felt at any point in the marathon. Remind me of that next year when I start my Goofy training won't you.
Anyway, got to go back to work, got a relatively quiet week this week hence my reappearance. Will make more time come June 3rd when DL training begins though. Helen