I think I’ve made a huge mistake.
Last night I registered for the 2011 Goofy’s Race and a Half Challenge.
What that means is that next January I will make a trip to Orlando to run again. However, this one ups the ante a little bit.
Up until now my Disney race experience has been me waking up early (while most people are still out from the night before), running a race, collecting my medal and going on about my life for a year before doing it again.
The Goofy Race and a Half Challenge is an entirely different beast though. It involves running a Half Marathon on Saturday, and then waking up Sunday morning and running a Full Marathon. The very next day. For a total of 39.3 miles.
I know that I am not ready for this challenge. I know it’s going to take a lot of training, and possibly no amount of training can make me ready for this. It could just be something that is beyond the realms of what my body can physically handle. And my normal half-assed training that I’ve done for marathons 2, 3, and 4 will not cut it. No chance no way. I’m seriously going to have to buckle down and work hard for this. And quite honestly, I don’t know if I’m disciplined enough to do it.
So, why register at all? Good question.
Back in the spring of 2006 after I decided I would run my first marathon, I made a promise to myself that I would do the Goofy Challenge for my fifth year. And I’m just too pig-headed to not do it.
That’s why. I’m stubborn. And after four marathons I needed to do something to change it up a bit. And apparently I thought this was the way to do it.
So, 11 months from now I will either fail miserably and be humiliated, or surprise myself and surpass what I currently think I am physically capable of. I’m obviously hoping for the latter.
But right now that 39.3 miles feels more like a million.