The Big Pay Off

So does all the training pay off in the end? I think today was a good example of training that pays off. Sarah has been running every day, 4:30 AM, freezing temperatures, ice, snow, cold wind and she doesn’t stop. I have been there too, though I was injured and on the sidelines for a few weeks. I think today, we finally felt some of the benefits of all that training. We ran over 12 miles, more then half of it in a snow storm. We ran less then a mile short of the distance we need to run to finish a half of a marathon. We ran a good pace, grew snow beards, and had ice on our eye lashes. I laid out in intricate detail my Monday work schedule for Sarah, while she listened with great interest in order to help the two hour out door workout go by just a little faster. We ran from Providence, to Cranston, to Warwick and back (Which to most Rhode Islanders is a day trip using a car). At the end of this run, we both looked at each other and said “I could keep going”. That is training that paid off. We know we can run far. We know we can run even further. And of course I can eat what ever I feel like after running for two hours straight. Hopefully next time, it will not snow.