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Back to Journal  « Rejection 160 | Marathon Training Week 5 of 26 | Asimov's Science Fiction Hearts Telltale » Marathon Training Week 5 of 26 January 15, 2006 We did it. 7 miles today. My calves burned for the last few intervals and I had a helluva time focusing during a shoot later in the day (more on that later) and I'm sure a few of the following senses aren't going to make any kind of sense, but we did it. I didn't sleep any better last night than I did last Saturday, but I did eat only 1.5 hours before the run and carried a Balance bar and a small bottle of Water. But I think Jen and I accidentally wearing matching outfits was the real thing that did the trick. It's a good thing, too, because if we would have had another crappy long run, we would have needed to repeat a few of the previous weeks, which would have put the marathon well into Clarion territory. I would have had to make a difficult decision for myself--do I postpone the rest of my training until after Clarion or do I switch to a half-marathon? But we pushed through and did it: 7 miles of interval running. Probably the most difficult single piece of exercise I've done in my life. Now that we're back on track with the stamina, the other thing is to further increase the interval of running. I think I need to increase my long run speed by 20% still if I want to make 26.2 miles in under 5.5 hours. |
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Alex Wilson writes fiction and comics in Carrboro, NC. His work has appeared/will appear in Asimov's Science Fiction, The Rambler, Weird Tales, The Florida Review, Futurismic, Shimmer, ChiZine, FutureQuake, Pif, and Dragon. Locus Magazine has called him a "promising new writer," and Publishers Weekly also has nice things to say. Alex runs the audiobook project/podcast Telltale Weekly and the writer wiki Guidevines. He publishes the minicomic/zine Inconsequential Art. He is a 2006 Clarion graduate.  
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