April 12 — Pre-Race Ponderings

No run or workout today, but the race is tomorrow and I feel weird. I just don’t know what to expect. I don’t know how fast I’ll be able to run. I don’t know how fast I’m hoping to run. Looking back at my Strava runs, something around 11 minute miles feels realistic, give or take (probably give, as in a slower mile pace) a minute or so. I’m also nervous about getting up so early and being awake enough, but I’m hoping to get to bed early.

Passover also just started tonight, which means there are a lot of things I can’t eat for the next week, including bread. I’ll replace my pre-morning-run breakfast toast with matzah, but I wonder if that will impact anything.

Anyway, I’m writing this at 10pm and I have a ton of dishes to do and I’d like to be in bed by 11pm, so off I go. I’ll check in in the morning after my run (and maybe before, who knows). But what I can say is that the run itself honestly isn’t as important to me now as it was when I started this project. My 6 mile run two weeks ago is more important. I had never run that much before in my life. To be able to do that, just about 13 months after my injury, was really cool. I still remember not being able to imagine myself ever running again. I remember when the thought of me walking unassisted seemed so far out of reach. But coming back better than I had been before, in some ways, is pretty damn cool. So I just want to go out there and have fun tomorrow. It’d be nice to surprise myself with how fast I run and it would be cool if something cool happens, but I don’t really care. A year after the Big House 5K I originally signed up to run, I finally get to run it. Fitting way to end senior year I think. See y’all tomorrow.

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