Looking back is often hard

Upon reading the "fine print" of the BAA website, I quickly became discouraged with one thing I did at Grandma's Marathon.  The .02 sec that's tacked onto my 3:40 finish time has me kicking myself in the butt.  Just two seconds!

If I had run two seconds faster (or not have walked for quite as long), I would be able to register for the Boston Marathon on day 3 of this year's staggered registration.  BUT, unfortunately, I wasn't strong enough to finish in 3:40 flat, so now I'm left feeling disheartened by all my amazing efforts.  It's like receiving a gold medal in a competition and feeling triumphant about your achievement when all of a sudden the director comes to tell you there was a computer glitch, you actually came in second.  At least that's how I feel.  I had finished 10 min. faster than my BQ time (I needed to finish in 3:40:59 or better), but today I found out that I needed to finish exactly ten minutes and 00 seconds faster in order to register early. Honestly, I feel deflated.

Nothing I can do now, can only hope the race doesn't fill up by the 16th when I can finally register.  No one can take away my PR, and I'm certainly happy about it, just wish those two seconds could magically sail away.

Today I finally allowed myself a two mile run on the treadmill and it felt GREAT.  I'm still so surprised by how great my legs have felt after running so hard, makes me wonder if I could have pushed harder.  I wanted to run yesterday, but thought it best to refrain and let my legs heal up.  I'm looking forward to putting together the next training calendar and going to MN Oct. 2 for the Twin Cities marathon.  Training started last week, so it's on!!