For as long as I can remember - I wanted to go to the Cinque Terre. Probably since I first saw a picture of those breathtaking little villages overlooking the sea. It looked like the most romantic place in the world. So it wasn't even a conversation that Erik and I needed to have when planning our Honeymoon: we would be staying in the Cinque Terre. I never thought, however, that I would run the connector trail between them.
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Years ago, I had conceptions of what I thought travel (and love, and life in general) should look like. Travel was something you planned for over months and even years. It was budgeted for and structured and it fit nicely into the standard cadence: meet a guy in high school / college, get a job, get married, go on a week long honeymoon, buy a house, continue the 9-5 life, have a kid, take a week long vacation to somewhere new every couple years, probably have another kid, continue the 9-5 life, maybe take a big trip for our 15 year anniversary (without the kids? should we?!)... And I firmly believed that Italy should be a place to travel with someone that you love - it would be perfect for that week long honeymoon someday. Even as this perceived cadence of the right way to do life dropped away from my reality, I was still holding strong on Italy.
It's simple: to run fast in a race, you have to train fast. Seems like that would be a given, but I don't believe it's the way many people train. I certainly didn't do this for years. I was also lazy - running only 2-3 days per week, earning those PR half marathons only a few seconds at a time. But I quickly learned that improvement and the ability to scratch the surface of your running potential requires work; and a big part of that work is a weekly tempo run while in training.
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