Week 10 – The Envelope

Preparation is now somewhere in the middle.

After a very slow winter start, the run is finally beginning to take its proper shape.

I am still a bit behind with the weekly volume, but the long runs are now progressing as they should. The heart rate could probably be lower, but it does not feel like I am pushing the body too hard.
(Although tomorrow morning may have a different opinion.)

During today’s run an interesting thought appeared.

The first marathon — the legendary one about a Greek messenger running from Marathon to Athens — was not about breaking records. It was not about training plans, motivation strategies, or power gels with caffeine.

It was about a message traveling 42 kilometers through time and space.

Somewhere around kilometer fifteen a question appeared:

What message can one place inside an envelope made of 40,000 steps, 36,000 heartbeats, and weeks of preparation?