Saving Miserable Runs for the cookie jar

3 hour run for the cookie jar

I’ll get back to the meaning behind that in a moment. The main motivation right now to run is to build endurance in the legs for the 4x4x48 challenge that starts in 12 days time. The challenge is to run 4 miles every 4 hours for 48 hours (12 runs in total). Meaning the maximum amount of recovery time I’ll get between runs is roughly 3 hours.

I have no idea how that’s going to affect me mentally and physically as the challenge progresses. I think the adrenaline of the challenge will get me through the first night and into the Saturday ok. As I hit runs 7, 8 and 9 on the Saturday night, I feel like the challenge will truly begin.

That’s why a run like this is so important right now, for me. Because when run 9 comes around and the alarm goes off on the phone at 3:50am to get myself up for another 4 mile run, having ran 32 miles (further than I ever have before) and my mind wants me to quit, I can look back on a run like today. A run going through literally piss poor weather and heavy wind for 3 hours. And regardless of the weather that Saturday, I can rationalize that it’s only another 40 mins instead of a 3 hour run like today that I know I can do.

Whether that works for me or not, we’ll find out in 12 days time!

Link below to support the challenge in aid of St Brigid’s Hospice, The Curragh

https://gofund.me/c6c7ef2b

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