@Dis5150 Nice job on your race! Am I the only one who thinks that dragon looks a
lot like Maleficent?
ATTQOTD about biggest mistake you made in your running life:
Funny Answer 1: Signing up for my first half marathon in the first place. Little did I know what would come from that. I honestly thought it would be a one and done type of thing with the possibility that I might do the runDisney Coast to Coast challenge once. Little did I know it lead to running a 10K
and a Half for Star Wars medals.
Funny Answer 2: Signing up for the 2017 Avengers Half despite having not run regularly in 6 weeks with no run of any distance greater than 13.1 since April just 3 weeks before the race. Mostly because this led to me signing up for 2018 Dark Side on the spur of the moment. Now I'm training for that during the busiest time of year. So many times last year, I looked forward to not having to train this year and yet here I am again.
Serious Answer: Slacking off on training before half number one. While I got myself in gear with enough time to go before the half, I had a severe lack of confidence. This resulted in me trying to cram too much training into not enough time and suffering pain that went away but destroyed what little confidence remained. Despite having finished all the long runs including a 14 miler 2 weeks before the 2011
Disneyland Half, I was convinced I would not finish. So I started off way too fast and nearly injured myself before coming to my senses and slowing down to run at the speed I had trained to.
Serious Answer runner up: trying to run through severe knee pain in January without slowing down or skipping a run. I would have been much better off simply taking the time off immediately. I feared losing my training and failing to meet my "dream" goal so I nearly screwed up the main goal.
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