Tomorrow I will be running the half-marathon portion of the Indianapolis Monumental Marathon and Half-Marathon. It's the first race in a long time where I was even the least bit nervous, since it's my first 'long' race since being diagnosed with mono back in September.
Back in September, the week of my first Ironman race, I was diagnosed with mono and after a CT scan of my spleen it was recommended that I not race. I also ended up taking off training for most of two months in an attempt to recover my health as best as I could, in addition to resigning from a job I was dedicating an unhealthy number of hours to.
Fast forward ten weeks to November 6th, 2010, and I'm about to run a half-marathon. Normally the half is my favorite race distance and I've had a lot of success at it, but tomorrow I'm a bit nervous. My last real race was in July (since then I've only done a 5k) and a 12 mile run on Monday was just painful.
Tomorrow my goal is just to go out and do my best, not looking for a PR. The course should be flat and the weather should be perfect (although it's snowing a bit right now so we'll see). Look for a review tomorrow.
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