Sleepless Knight
Jedi Knight Seeking His Jedi Princess
- Joined
- May 15, 2008
Yeah, this one was not fun. I first felt its effects in early September, but thought it was nothing more than back pain which would pass in time. I continued to function pretty much normally for another 2-3 weeks having no idea that it was so much worse. Very happy to be running at all and working on keeping a positive mindset so as to not worry about being undertrained.Just glad you got past the bacterial infection. From my very layman's knowledge, those can be rather nasty.
Not my experience, but I know of two different ones. My sister finished Dopey 2020 untrained. She had only run a half in early September. She did have corral placement that put her not in the last corral and around mile 15 or 16 she started to regularly hear the pace warnings, but she kept going and finished. And she had been pretty sick with some sort of virus at Christmas time 2019.Has anyone had to lay off running entirely for 2-3 weeks leading into a race and been OK? This will be my 14th marathon, so I am not new to endurance running and hoping my body will hang in there!
Shortly after getting out of the hospital, I was speaking with a friend and he told me that he suffered an injury of some sort 3 weeks before a marathon. Rested for 3 weeks and finished.
And for anyone who feels good about training, but is dealing with a cold or something right now, I caught a nasty cold one week before leaving for Marathon Weekend 2019. I was a bit concerned how things would go, but at the end of each race, I could actually feel myself getting stronger so as was shared so wonderfully by @FFigawi from Coach Charles, trust your training and go in knowing that you can now enjoy it.
Or as College Football Hall of Fame football coach LaVell Edwards from BYU once said, "Even more important than the will to win is the will to prepare."