Preparing to Run Bloomsday

It’s after spring break now and officially spring. I am trying to ready myself for Bloomsday but again I know I won’t be ready because I’m starting too late. I am becoming rigid about what days I am going to run. I can’t put it off anymore, not that I was ever actually planning to put it off. I want to be able to run that 12K under an hour ten but I’ve let snow and rain disrupt my training. Because of that I have had to shift my goal to just running the entire distance with just a few walk breaks at water stations. I also don’t want to have the last mile or so be a death march. It’s never actually been a death march, but it has seemed interminably long. I think that the ship for preventing that has sailed, but I’m not going to stop trying to make it easier. And that will come from sticking to my weekly plan. But even when I stick to my plan of miles and days I will run I know individual runs will not meet the possibilities I want because my investment is more in the act of running than the success of Bloomsday. That is what I have to remember with each step. And so I will.