Echoing Glenda's earlier post, yay! for us on completing our first training walk as a team!! Okay, so the route was a little confusing at times, and periodically you'd have a group of racers coming at you head on, but what a beautiful place, right??!! Hopefully, the smiles in this photo were still eeking out at the end. :)
I do hope your overall experience on Saturday morning was a good one and that you're still excited about the actual event. If it helps, training walks or runs are almost always more difficult than on event day. On a training walk there aren't cheering spectators or friendly faces handing you a cold drink every two miles or thousands of other participants keeping the spiritual energy high. There's just you, the pavement, and the demons inside your head telling you that everything hurts and that you should just stop and go home because you'll probably pass out from this if you continue one more step. So, remember that when you make it through a training walk, you've made it through the toughest part.
I do hope your overall experience on Saturday morning was a good one and that you're still excited about the actual event. If it helps, training walks or runs are almost always more difficult than on event day. On a training walk there aren't cheering spectators or friendly faces handing you a cold drink every two miles or thousands of other participants keeping the spiritual energy high. There's just you, the pavement, and the demons inside your head telling you that everything hurts and that you should just stop and go home because you'll probably pass out from this if you continue one more step. So, remember that when you make it through a training walk, you've made it through the toughest part.
There's something about the zillions of people at an event, be they fellow participants or cheering spectators, that get you pumped and keep you going when you don't think you can go any farther. The energy in the air is amazing and the adrenaline you feel from being part of something so big and meaningful keeps your motivation level high. That doesn't mean that the physical exertion is any easier, it's just that your mental state is much happier, so you're not as focused on the pain! Really!
Okay, that's it for now. Keep walking and keep stretching -- but remember to warm up either before you do your pre-walk stretches or by doing the warm-up stretches that we did on Saturday!
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Many thanks to Melissa for showing us those active stretches -- they really worked!
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