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DEL.ICIO.USDo you get the post-race blues?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
ING Race director Victoria Seahorn, who has run 30 marathons, recently summed up what many runners feel during and after a race.
She said, “People get out there and you’re sucking wind thinking, ‘My God, let me get through this.’ And then at the finish line, you say, ‘I want to do this again.”
The feeling is that great. Your goal is fulfilled.
But after the celebration, do you get the blues because the intense training and race is over?
As Seahorn said, I quickly knew at the end of last year’s race that I wanted to do it again. I was gonna miss that huge goal of 26.2 miles in front of me.
For some of you Sunday’s ING event is prep for other upcoming marathons or ultra marathons.
It’s training for when blogger John Tackett runs the Boston Marathon in April.
And it’s prep for two colleagues here at the newspaper who are training for a marathon in Cleveland, in May.
Others like me will settle back into a normal routine.
In the book “Run Your First Marathon,” author and nine-time New York marathon winner Grete Waitz says, people don’t always realize that running a marathon is both psychological and physiological, so feeling a little low after accomplishing such a big goal is natural.
What do you when the race hoopla is finally over?
UPDATE: Read reporter Leon Stafford’s story, “Workers Remove Glass from Centennial Park Before ING Race.”
MORE: PEACHTREE ROAD RACE INFO. State of the Art Marathon Training. USA Fit/Team Spirit. Active Trainer. Atlanta Track Club. Road Rules. ING Georgia Marathon.
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“There are days when i doubt i can run a marathon, but a lifetime of gratitude and confidence knowing that I have.”
Thats all I need to know…
See you all on Sunday!!
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some times I feel blue just from watching the nuts run by, I sit on the porch with a beer and a smoke and can git tired just watchin. It not like we ain’t all gonna die anyways. the runners will just be tired when they git there.
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