Hello again! We have been slightly M.I.A. since the 50 miler. The race went great and I felt great right after the race. Unfortunately about a month after I experienced this thing called "burn-out"!!! I was just not motivated like I was before the 50 miler. Which would totally be no big deal...if we hadn't signed up for Disney's Goofy Challenge months before we signed up for the ultra.
What is the Goofy Challenge??? It lives up to its name. Basically Disney World hosts a Endurance Series the second weekend in January. A half marathon on Saturday (the Donald Race) and a full, 26.2 marathon on Sunday (the Mickey Race). Then a few years ago there was some crazy who signed up for both. And then another crazy did it. And so on and so forth. So Disney thought, "hey we could market this double race and these yahoos would pay for it....all for bragging rights, an extra medal and a couple more shirts." And yep, you guessed it, we are among the nut jobs that fell for their money making memory :). "Who's the leader of the band who takes all your money....M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E!!!!!!!!!"
So back to the burn out. You might want to train to run 39.3 miles in 2 days. If you are familiar with marathon training you peak and then you taper. Well, we decided to actually train somewhere far from the "peak" weeks and edging on the "taper" portion. We have basically crammed all our training into the last month. Really smart. We really just want to have a couple "fun runs" and a great family vacation. We are taking the husbands and kiddos on this one. I am excited because Izzie really doesn't even know I run. She just knows when she wakes up I sometime have on a running hat and she says "you smell mommy." She's so soft spoken, you know.
So we shall see how our "slacker training program" works on Jan 9th. We are praying that some of our endurance from the 50 is lingering in our legs somewhere! I just keep telling myself "Disney is where dreams come true!" I'm dreaming of endurance!!!!!
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