The Cherry Blossom 10-Miler is still a few weeks to go, but I've been debating whether I should run the National Half Marathon on March 29 -- the week before the Cherry Blossom run. I went for a 10 mile run today and told myself if I felt good at the end of it, then I'd try the half. I'm feeling pretty good, but I did have to walk for about 2 minutes of the run and finished in about 91 minutes. Not too bad, I guess, considering I ran at a comfortable pace and not in race mode. But here's the debacle I'm facing -- I can run the half marathon, do a decent job (i.e., hopefully finish under 2 hours) but risk feeling pain and then not getting as a good a time I'm hoping for at the Cherry Blossom run, OR I can skip the half, keep training for the 10-miler, run it and reach my goal time (if not beat it).
Well, I can register for the half up until the day before, so I'm going to continue to run and see how I feel. Stay tuned...
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