Pre-BSR Jitters

I stopped playing soccer sometime in March (the team I was playing on disbanded for the time being) and my ankles and knees haven't felt better since I started playing again. I should probably take this as a sign that maybe soccer isn't my sport anymore, but I love the competition and it is nice to get back into something I have missed for almost 10 years. Even though my ankles would probably regret it, if the team gets back together, I plan on joining up. Sorry to everyone that will hear my complaints about soccer injury after soccer injury, but I can't keep away.

The Broad Street Run is coming up tomorrow and I am quite nervous. It has been since last September since I have raced (and pretty much that long since I have blogged) and I am quite apprehensive because I am not where I would like to be with my training. I am never where I would like to be with my training, so I should be used to the feeling. My goal for tomorrow is to break 70:00 and hopefully have a fairly evenly paced race. If I can accomplish this, it will be a good start to a few other summer races, 10k in chalfont and possibly a couple of the West Chester XC series 5ks.

I have been entertaining the thought of making another attempt at a marathon this fall. I am considering philly because it is no traveling, reasonably flat, and hopefully comfortably cool. NYC was fun and it would be nice to go out there and take it on again, but maybe I will take the easy road. No matter where I am going to run it, I will definitely have to commit to it within the next month. I will not half-ass my way through another marathon (one was hard enough for my fragile ego to take), so I want to give my self plenty of time to increase mileage so I don't risk injury. eek... marathons scare me...