The rest of 2011 - between marathons

[marathondan]

Went for a bike ride instead of the long run. Maybe because I'm restricting myself to 40 mins, when I knew the run would have been approaching double that. Enjoyable, though. But by the time I got home the light was fading, and next week I'll need lights. There's another problem: I'm a nocturnal runner; I can bank my miles when the rest of the family has gone to bed. Cycling in the dark, while not impossible, is certainly a less relaxing proposition.

But I think part of me is scared that I couldn't work up to completing a triathlon in a decent (for me) time. Another part of me wants to bully that part and poke it with a stick.

Part of me wants to stick to what I know: knocking out 10Ks and HMs in not-incompetent times, maybe getting a little better now and then.

But for sure, I won't be giving up on the thing that I now seem to know best: the marathon. The April Folly is a permanent fixture on the calendar for the forseeable future.