feeling better: thanks to everyone's comments to my last post! i knew that once i posted my fears, not only would i feel better just getting them off my chest, but that everyone with much more wisdom and experience than me would help me put things into perspective. i'm taking everyone's advice: have fun and just enjoy the experience. i mean i will never again have a FIRST marathon!!! yippeeeeee!
feeling bad: my mucous issues have turned into a full fledged sinus infection. blech. i hate those goddamned things. i'm currently on antibiotics. i haven't run since my 5k on friday (where i PRed, thank you very much) but i can't bear to bag my 16 miler tomorrow. the plan is to start it and if i feel like utter poop, i'll stop.
feeling bad: i finally, officially broke things off with MH last night. (and you're probably thinking, wait, what was all that talk before about not getting involved with him? yeah, well i'm human and in my whole course of dating i've not been one to fend off the advances of a latin lover very well) so breaking things off a few months later definitely made it harder than if i had stopped things cold to begin with. and i think i was a little too honest with my reasons for why i don't think he's the one for me. when i got home i was like fuck, why am i so stupidly honest? i think i could have spared him hurt feelings. i wasn't trying to be cruel, just honest, but sometimes i have to remember it might be better to just be kind.
5 comments:
Well, there's honesty and there's "brutal honesty" emphasis on the "brutal." If yo were the first, then that's good, but if you were the second, well, he might have hurt feelings, but that happens.
Careful running your 16 while you're on antibiotics. They can dehydrate you, so go by what you feel, like you already said, and be sure to hydrate!
I missed the last post but I can say from experience, enjoy your first. I ran my first last year and was so nervous and on edge it was hard to have fun. It took a friend being injuryed and not being able to start to put things into perspective for me. On race day, I had a blast :-)
hope you feel better all around soon be good to you most importantly.
I so thought you ended it between you and MH before it even began! How crazy! Sometimes you just gotta be honest. You can't always use the "it's not you, it's me" line. Guys don't buy that have the time anyway!
good luck with the 16 miler today - I second what Jess said about paying close attention to hydration also.
If you were moderately brutal but not too bad, just call him. from my experience, guys internalize different than us and you can patch things up afterwards pretty quickly.
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