Walkin' Boulder: Seriously Training
Walkin' Boulder
By Sue Deans
Training for a half-marathon walk, the former editor
of the Camera blogs about exploring Boulder
August 30, 2011
The last few days I’ve been serious about training for my half marathon, which happens Sunday in Anaheim, California, at Disneyland.
On Friday I walked 7 miles, Saturday 4 miles, Sunday 2 miles and Monday, my last big effort before I slow it down, 10.25 miles in 2 hours and 51 minutes. My brother Charlie, my advisor on all things running related, even though I’m not actually running, says I should ramp it down considerably now and “let everything heal.” This morning I took a more leisurely 2 ½ mile walk and I’m feeling pretty good.
I haven’t been taking pictures because I was focused on the walking. I will get back to that after I come back from California!
Charlie says the weather will be great for the race, high of 83 and low of 64, cloudy in the morning. The race starts at 6 a.m. so it’s done before it gets too hot. I will need to finish the 13.1 miles in 3 ½ hours but they start counting that after the last person starts, which should give me a little extra time. Basically I just want to finish, but it would be nice not to be the last one in. And the fact that it’s a pretty flat course, and at sea level, should help a lot! It’s fun because many of the participants dress up as Disney characters, and the characters from the park are all around while we run, with music and other distractions. We haven’t decided whether we’ll be dressing up as characters – we all have red T-shirts with our family team name on the back that we’ll probably wear.
I am including below a picture of our cast of “characters” that will be in the race. From left, they are my brother Charlie and his wife Margie, who live in Arvada, my cousin Dawn, who lives in Lake Arrowhead, California, and yours truly. Dawn came here in May and we all did the Bolder Boulder in our different modes of walking, jogging, or running, and that’s where this picture was taken. Dawn, Margie and Charlie did the Disneyland race last year and I just watched, but I decided to try it this year.
Wish me luck! I will update the blog when I return.
