My Three Year Journey to the New York City Marathon

Hae S. Bolduc

Description

A marathon does not owe us anything, but rather it is we, who owe so much to ourselves. Running is 99% mental, and the other 1% is mental!
Journaling for this book began when Hae was accepted into the New York City Marathon. She achieved a qualifying time a year earlier at the Rome Marathon in April 2018. Starting in February 2019 she began writing about her daily training, her nutrition, and her workout recoveries—how she learned from training mistakes, struggles, disappointments, and triumphs, all the while intertwining her life’s pearls of wisdom and understanding of running as an amateur athlete. Targeting the 2019 New York City Marathon, her training became a three-year journey to finally run the marathon in 2021.

Sujets

• Philosophie
• Philosophie de l'esprit
• Sport
• Sports fitness
• Course
• Jogging
• Recreation
• Running
• Sports

Informations

• Publié par: Balboa Press
• Date de parution: 23 octobre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798765233818
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

MY THREE YEAR JOURNEY TO THE NEW YORK CITY MARATHON
 
AN INSPIRATIONAL JOURNAL (JOURNEY)
 
 
 
HAE S. BOLDUC
 
 
 

 
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ISBN: 979-8-7652-3380-1 (sc)
ISBN: 979-8-7652-3379-5 (hc)
ISBN: 979-8-7652-3381-8 (e)
 
Library of Congress Control Number: 2022916045
 
Balboa Press rev. date: 10/20/2022
Contents - Journal Highlights
2019
FebNew York City Marathon Acceptance
AprBoston Marathon
Jun-Mile Garden of the Gods Race
AugPikes Peak Ascent
OctBeginning to Taper
NovNew York City Marathon
2020
MarDetour
JulNature’s Way
SepHigh Colorado Mountains
NovNew Birth
2021
MarNew Year New Goal
OctChicago Marathon
NovNew York City Marathon
2022
Epilogue
 
Countdown 2019
Thursday, January 31, 2019
Colorado Springs , CO
I return home from an early-morning test run. The run went well, but I still felt a little soreness in my hip and decided to stop at 1.7 miles and attend to my business. I am a Lifestyle Coach, and the session with my client goes well. After the session, I sit down to take care of some personal business and read my email. I’m stunned and excited to see an email from the New York City Marathon officials. I qualified in 2018 and applied to participate. And here it is, my answer. I open the email to find that I have been accepted! I can’t believe it. I love New York and everything about New York City. Every time I visit, I love the people, the culture, the food, and Grand Central Terminal. Participating in the marathon will allow me to discover the city in a different way and with a new perspective. I’ve heard stories for years of how difficult it is to get into the New York City Marathon. Only 50,000 out of more than 100,000 applicants are accepted each year. I feel elated to have this opportunity and also glad I’ve been giving my body a chance to rest and heal. Now my training will begin.
Countdown: 275 Days
Friday, February 1, 2019
Colorado Springs , CO
It’s a beautiful day, sunny, and in the 50s. All the snow has melted and the trail is clear with no ice. Craig and I have returned from a trip to Arizona - Phoenix (in the 70s), Sedona (50s), Flagstaff (20s), and the South Rim of the Grand Canyon (20s). We often take short trips to explore areas we haven’t experienced and we took this one to escape to a warmer clime for my Boston Marathon training. To be honest, I’m hurting after my 8-mile Colorado Springs Winter Series II Race this past Saturday. My right hip is giving me trouble and I’m surprised because this has never before happened. I’m a mindful runner and I always listen to my body. I was hoping this short getaway would allow me to heal. After the Winter Series II race and during our three-day visit to Arizona, I didn’t run a single mile until the last day, giving my body total rest for four days.
Countdown: 274 Days
Saturday, February 2, 2019
Colorado Springs , CO
It’s 8:30 a.m. and already 38°F and sunny. It’s another beautiful day for running in Colorado Springs and I’m anxious to go out for a test run with my healing right hip. Everything takes time when it comes to healing one’s body. All the cells are working 24-hours a day on their repair assignment, and I am so grateful. My mind is focused on my hip when I start running and I start slowly, tiptoeing to see how it will react. I feel tightness in my hip, but no pain. I run to the trail a block from our home and continue running to the corner of Centennial Blvd and Vindicator where the Ute Valley Park sign is located. This is exactly one mile in and I’m at 11 minutes and 30 seconds. Pretty darn slow. But I wasn’t going for speed this morning. I intend to slow down and allow my body to recover. I continue running to Eagleview Middle School, about two miles from home before I turn back, still cautious about my hip. I run into Craig on the trail. He is just starting as I’m finishing. We used to run together, which was so much fun, but these days we have different purposes for our runs. Craig doesn’t have any races scheduled this year, so most of the time he is on “exploratory” runs and he can’t wait to tell me all about the new trails he discovers. He has been living in Colorado Springs for over 30 years and is now finally observing his surroundings and experiencing life at a deeper level. Before this, like everyone else, Craig and I were entrenched in our careers and families, buried under life happenings. We hardly had time to experience real life. I finish up at 4.8 miles and I am feeling good with no discomfort in any body parts. A good test-run day.
Countdown: 273 Days
Sunday, February 3, 2019
Colorado Springs , CO
My training for the Boston Marathon has not been smooth. Yes, I have been accepted into the Boston Marathon, on April 15, 2019, as well as the New York City Marathon, on November 3, 2019. I’m in for two big ones this year. There’s a lot of excitement and pressure that comes with these two “major” marathons. I’m far from being an elite competitive runner; nevertheless, the nature of my character is to give 100% in everything I do. Therefore, it’s my goal to train the best I can by following the plan my coach and husband, Craig, put together for me. I was very healthy until December 2018 and had never been hurt or injured from running or any other sport, for that matter. Well, that’s not quite true. I’m a clumsy bike rider and tend to fall sometimes, bruising or scraping my knees and/or legs.
After the fourth and final Fall Series race last year—a local race series consisting of one race every other week starting in October—I felt some minor discomfort in my left iliotibial band (ITB). On race day, November 11 th , we woke up to eight inches of wet, sloppy snow. The racecourse was icy, muddy, and slippery. I fell five times but had a soft landing each time. I didn’t feel any discomfort in my body at any time during the day. About a week later, I started feeling my left ITB tighten up and a sharp jolt of pain down my left leg. I had never been in this situation, though I had heard or read countless stories in running magazines and books about running injuries.
The ITB injury caused sharp shooting pain down my leg when I ran, so in December I slowed down my running both in distance and speed. December went by and I was feeling good at the beginning of the year. I jumped into my Boston Marathon training, which included the Winter Series, a four-race series with a race every other week starting in January. Each race was progressively longer: 10 km, 8 miles, 10 miles, and 20 km. I ran two hard training runs, a 10-mile run, and a 12-mile run before Saturday’s 8-mile race. Although I took a rest on Friday, it was not enough. After Saturday’s race, my right hip was hurting.
Today, I was planning on running a local half-marathon as my long training run but instead, I’m “sitting” out the day. As much as I adhere to the book “Love What Is” by Byron Katie, this sidelined feeling is hard to swallow. Instead of feeling bad about not running the half-marathon today, I’ll focus on Boston, starting tomorrow. My body is sending me a clear message to focus on “quality” rather than “quantity” so I will listen to my body and heal. Our bodies are amazing machines and in every moment miracles are taking place. For that I am grateful.
Countdown: 272 Days
Monday, February 4, 2019
Colorado Springs , CO
It is early February, and the temperature is in the 40s which makes for beautiful running weather in the morning sun. On the trail, I can see the trees yawning and beginning to wake up from their winter nap. I hear and see signs of spring; birds are chirping and squirrels are leading me into Ute Valley Park, a wooded 500-acre undeveloped parkland. Several shady areas in the park still have thick ice and I end up running around one of these locations, just off the edge of the trail, to avoid slipping. It is so fun to run this morning, albeit slowly, after a week of downtime. The southwest corner of the Ute Valley Park trail merges into the flat neighborhood Piñon Valley Park, where I’ll see if I can do some actual running. The sidewalk loop around the park is one-third of a m