The blahs

Once again I am getting ready for the Bidwell ½ marathon; that's coming up this next weekend. Will I be ready? Maybe not physically, but I’m hoping that the mental preparation will carry me through the tough spots. The course is very familiar and I know pretty much just how long it takes to go from point A to point B and then to C, etc, etc.

And I have been training; sort of. I have the wintertime blahs and I really need an attitude transplant. The other day I did a 5 mile plus walk and at a good speed, but I started out with the usual mental complaints and it wasn’t until I had gone about 2 miles before I began to feel a little more positive about what I was training for. Even then, although I had done a 37 minute 5K just the week before, I could only manage a 38.5 minute 5K time.

I really need to relax and not stress about my performance. It’s all about my health, my level of fitness, and not whether I can beat someone to the finish line. All I have to do is remember that there are thousands of people in the Chico area that didn’t even think about walking 13.1 miles on Saturday…and if they had, they wouldn’t.