Strategy for a Marathon
by Marnie Mueller
I will start
when the gun goes off.
I will run
for five miles.
Feeling good,
I will run
to the tenth mile.
At the tenth
I will say,
"Only three more
to the halfway."
At the halfway mark,
13.1 miles,
I will know
fifteen is in reach.
At fifteen miles
I will say,
"You’ve run twenty before,
keep going."
At twenty
I will say,
"Run home."
