Choose Your Own Adventure

I have butterflies about tomorrow, and I’m going to run for a half-hour, at the most. Yet I have butterflies.

I’m running in the July 4 race tomorrow. Miles Beyond, Run.Windsor’s rebranded running company (and a personal favorite), is calling it the Freedom Run, but it’s also calling the course flat and fast. I have my doubts :).

I have run a few 5Ks since I switched over to ultrarunning, but I haven’t really taken them seriously except for last year’s Turkey Trot, when I was racing my daughter (spoiler alert, she won).

I realized that I needed to get a little faster and drop some weight to prepare for 100 miles and give myself a real chance to make it. I’m all for plodding in these races, but I was more like a slug.

I’ve taken speed work seriously, and now I’m curious to try out my new vroom vroom.

I doubt I’m going to run anything under 25 minutes, so let’s not get too excited about this. I could run 25 minutes on a broken leg back in my youth (like when I was 40). I’m now 53. I’m calling this my golden era. Maybe I can set a PR for this era. I think I can.

Te larger point to this, though, is I”m still an ultrarunner. I’m still planning on running 100 miles in late September. Running can be lots of different things, and just because you do one doesn’t mean you can’t do the other. Your only limits are the ones you put on yourself.