The Voice in Your Head...

I was having a conversation this morning with a male friend and I mentioned some apprehensions I was having about the half marathon this Sunday and he said if I had the drive to sign up for a half then I should be good to go.

 

This got me thinking about how different men and women are.

 

Good thing the founder of Nike was a man. If not their slogan wouldn't be 'Just Do It' it would be;

 

'Should I Do It?'

 

or

 

'Can I Do It?'

 

or

 

'Do I really want to do it?'

 

or

 

'She did it so I can do it too'

 

or

 

'Maybe if I get lucky I can do it'

 

You get my point.

 

Tell me if I am wrong but why does it seem women (or maybe this is just me) are plagued with self-doubt? Couple that with my amazing ability to over-think and over-analyze everything and it is damn near crippling.

 

I want to ‘Just Do It’

 

I don’t want to think about every misstep I could have possibly taken these last 10 weeks. I don’t want to doubt my ability. I don’t want to second guess my training.

 

I just want to wake up Sunday morning and just freaking do it.

 

And I would really like to know what is preventing me from doing just that. I mean I know I will. I will get up and run that half marathon. But I want to know what I need to do/change in order to stop questioning my actions and start believing in myself 100% of the time.

 

What more proof do I need to give myself that I can do it; whatever IT is? How many more goals do I have to pass or successes do I need to achieve before I truly start believing this?

 

3M Half Marathon: Video Recap

Here is my very long (sorry, almost 17 minutes) video recap of the 3M Half Marathon in Austin, TX which took place today- January 13, 2013. Please note that with about a minute left Ruby starts barking and it's loud so I apologize. Don't turn the volume up too high or you might end up with ruptured eardrums ;)


Also, I wanted to include my mile times from my Garmin but I had some issues uploading it so I will just manually type it out. I only checked it a few times during the race and just now went through each mile- I was pretty surprised with what I saw. Especially since I stopped at every water stop, took breaks when I ate my gels, and that I walked every time there was an uphill section. I could not believe how well today went.

Mile 1: 10:34
Mile 2: 10:28
Mile 3: 10:55
Mile 4: 11:09
Mile 5: 11:01
Mile 6: 12:06 (this includes my stopping/gel break)
Mile 7: 11:29
Mile 8: 11:51
Mile 9: 12:39 (another gel break)
Mile 10: 12:54 (this begins the walking segments)
Mile 11: 12:45
Mile 12: 12:58
Mile 13: 13:10
Plus 5 minutes and 24 second for .40 mile. I forgot to turn my watch off until after I took the photo at the end of the tunnel. Whoops.

My official times from the 3M site are 01:09:53 for the 10K split and 02:38:17 for the half! Yay!

My next goal is sub-2:30 which if there were no hills I totally think I would have been close to hitting today. No worries. Now I have something else to focus on in my training.

This is the post race picture I mention in the video. Don't you love my red face?