http://www.lululemon.com/community/blog/the-fall-decision/ Read about yoga and running, inspirational goal setting, meditation, healthy snacks, travel stories, playlists and an overwhelming love of life. Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:35:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.lululemon.com/community/blog/the-fall-decision/comment-page-1/#comment-1697 Brian Groot Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:59:47 +0000 http://www.lululemon.com/community/blog/?p=887#comment-1697 This is a great post. Choosing the right race is a very important decision, especially if you have specific goals in mind. For anyone looking for a personal best or a Boston Qualifier, things like weather, elevation of the course and how they time with regards to your schedule are necessary to consider. After running a few marathons and no longer reaching for that PB, there are other things you start to look for in races, like the uniqueness, the challenge or the locations.
Over the last couple years I have started doing races more for fun than for fast times and it brings a whole different feeling into a marathon. Running with friends helps the time fly by and you’ve done 26 miles before you know it. Also, running a marathon is just about the best city tour you are ever going to get if you are traveling far from home. Now I find marathons or a lot like a yoga pose. Some days, you’ll want to give if your full effort and push your limits, and other days you’ll just stay in a more basic form of the posture and observe what is going on in the body. Nothing needs to be perfect. As long as you are present, every race will be a perfect race. Sometimes you need certain things to go “wrong” in order to learn for future events. Above all, it should be fun. If you are not enjoying yourself, you must ask yourself why you are doing it. You have a lot of time to think about that question on a long Sunday morning run.

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