Hail Mary:<\/p>\n
“A\u00a0forward pass\u00a0in\u00a0football,\u00a0especially\u00a0as\u00a0a\u00a0last ditch\u00a0attempt\u00a0at\u00a0the\u00a0end of\u00a0a\u00a0game,\u00a0where\u00a0completion\u00a0is\u00a0considered\u00a0unlikely.”<\/p>\n
I am not a football fan. \u00a0I leave the rabid cheering to MFH (My Favorite Husband), my Dad and my BIL. \u00a0Those three are F.A.N.S. \u00a0I do, however, know what a “Hail Mary” attempt is. \u00a0That last desperate attempt to score. \u00a0Anything at all that may turn the game towards your favor.<\/p>\n
The Chicago Marathon is 20 days away. \u00a0Well, seeing as today is almost complete, we could probably get away with saying 19 days. \u00a0Whatever the count may be, I recognize that I am woefully un-prepared for this race.<\/p>\n
Let’s face it. \u00a0I was actually sitting in a pretty nice spot the beginning of August just coming off of running that 50K. \u00a0Sure, I was was behind in regular marathon training but I had a solid foundation of miles under my belt and for a little bit, I could actually drop back on my total weekly mileage for a little bit.<\/p>\n
I was able to get a bit of a breather what with vacation and all, then it was time to get down to brass tacks.<\/p>\n
I started to increase up to my 20 mile training runs again. \u00a0I had mapped out three of them, figuring that my last 20 mile training run would, in reality, be a 23 miler. \u00a0Chicago was looking to be a nice, easy, run in the park. \u00a0It was going to be fun! \u00a0I was on track for a one hour PR. \u00a0Things were looking good.<\/p>\n
You all know about the concussion so we won’t beat a dead horse, but it has made me miss out on pretty much my entire last month of training for this race.<\/p>\n
This is not good.<\/p>\n
What was going to be an easy race, has now turned into a major challenge.<\/p>\n
Not only has my time suffered, my fitness level has suffered as well. \u00a0 Last Wednesday was to have been my 23 miler. \u00a0I could only run 19. \u00a0Well, I suppose I COULD have continued but I would have had to take more than the two days off I did take to recover from that training run.<\/p>\n
My noggin’ isn’t healing as fast as I would like. \u00a0It IS getting better! \u00a0Don’t get me wrong on that! \u00a0 I was just hoping that it would be all better in time for the race. \u00a0That doesn’t look like it will be the case.<\/p>\n
The 11 minute mile pace (I know, slow to most of you but fast for me) I was hoping to maintain for the race has now dropped to (and I am being realistic here) closer to a 13 minute mile. \u00a0My PR hopes have now been replaced with the goal of completing this race before they stop the clock.<\/p>\n
I think this is a realistic goal! \u00a0I really, really do!<\/p>\n
When I complete (please note optimism here) the Chicago Marathon before the clock stops, I will have beaten this concussion. \u00a0I will have shown it that it cannot keep me from my goals, my dreams and the things I love to do.<\/p>\n
Yes, in 19\/20 days, I will be attempting probably the biggest Hail Mary in my life.<\/p>\n
This is exciting stuff!!!<\/p>\n
Let’s do this!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hail Mary: “A\u00a0forward pass\u00a0in\u00a0football,\u00a0especially\u00a0as\u00a0a\u00a0last ditch\u00a0attempt\u00a0at\u00a0the\u00a0end of\u00a0a\u00a0game,\u00a0where\u00a0completion\u00a0is\u00a0considered\u00a0unlikely.” I am not a football fan. \u00a0I leave the rabid cheering to MFH (My Favorite Husband), my Dad and my BIL. \u00a0Those three are F.A.N.S. \u00a0I do, however, know what a “Hail Mary” attempt is. \u00a0That last desperate attempt to score. \u00a0Anything at all that may turn the game […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,8,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2637,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636\/revisions\/2637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}