is it two little too late?

"Anybody can be a runner... We were meant to move. We were meant to run. It's the easiest sport." -Bill Rodgers

for the last week i've been living out of a suitcase from a hotel, a nice one at least (courtyard marriott).

it's amazing the difference a week can make. just last saturday i was feeling sorry for myself for two reasons. i wasn't able to run the vancouver marathon, which was held sunday morning . i wasn't able to run it because i was away on business and i really wasn't in good enough shape to run it competitively anyway, which was the real reason why i was so disheartened. in addition, i was very anxious last saturday.

anxious? i'm registered for the tofino marathon (June 9th). this is the same race that i ran in 2006, where i needed to go to the hospital for 5 liters of I.V. and were i lost four toe nails (all small ones). these were both firsts for me.

this week has given me a lot of time to refocus on my training. i've been two workouts every day since sunday.

every morning i've been riding the stationary bike in the hotel for about and hour and in the evening i've been running around lake hood (10k). i'm sore, but i feel like i'm back on track to at least be ready to cross the finish on the 9th.

i think that if i'm going to be competitive, i'm going to have to do a lot of cross training so that my joints and bones stay strong. i hope that my muscles can handle the massive increase in exercise.

there is an old saying, "its never too late!"

i guess we will have to wait and see.

-Jesse

slightly dissapointed

for the first time ever in my life i started training for a marathon with a date in mind and i didn't do it.

i had my heart set on doing the vancouver marathon last sunday. the short answer for why i didn't do it: i was in alaska on business. but like most things, there is more to it than that.

i took a job last october as the vp of sales and marketing for an upstart aircraft financing company. i have found it extremely difficult finding the time to train. this is coming from someone that has run 11 marathons, so maybe, unfairly, i have been cutting myself more slack than i deserve.

i plan on doing the tofino marathon, which is held the second sunday in june. despite a 3h workout in the the gym today on cardio machines, i'm not sure if i'm going to be ready.

it will be my brother's first marathon... i'm going to run the race with him side by side.