The Great Southern Marathon
After saying for years that I "would never run a marathon", I started pondering whether I should try one to really test myself. You know, just to see if I could. They say your goals should excite you and terrify you at the same time. The marathon did that for me. As it happened, my husband had been thinking pretty much the same thing, so we decided we'd run our first marathons 'together'. We decided on the Hawke's Bay Marathon in May (main pluses of this event was it was close to home and we had someone to stay with!), and we started training. Then, in late March, COVID-19 forced a nationwide lockdown that had us 'staying at home, saving lives'. It was a pretty anxious time for a lot of people, including myself. I decided in that first week to back off on the marathon training and just take it easy. I figured the marathon would be postponed or cancelled anyway so no point busting a gut and adding more stress to my body in those anxious times.