You may have noticed a slightly orange countdown clock on the left hand side of this little corner of the internet I claim as my own. It's been steadily ticking off the seconds until marathon day for quite a few months now and today is the first day we are now in double digits.
99 days to go and counting!
I have had a much better week of running. Tuesday's "easy" 3 miles turned into a "medium" 3, Wednesday's 6 was FAN-FREAKING-TASTIC and even Thursday's easy 3 was nice and easy. So I'm feeling quite optimistic about tomorrow's cut back week of only 9 miles.
Didja hear that? I said only 9 miles. This is why I love training for a marathon. I can say things like "I only have to run 9 miles on Saturday" and totally mean it. I remember not too long ago when my "long run" was a whopping 4 miles. Now I'm preparing to hit my first -teen since I ran the 1/2 marathon in April.
Which reminds me. My schedule calls for a 14 mile run next Saturday but I am going to be driving to the fascinating metropolis that is Terre Haute, IN for my little sister's bridal shower. I thought about trying to squeeze it in early early on Saturday morning but if my run goes anything like it did last Saturday, I'll be in a pickle. I could move it to Sunday, but I'm running another 1/2 marathon on July 28th and that's a little too close together. So, I think I'm going to try and do it Friday after work.
That should be interesting. I'm going to start praying for low humidity starting now.
3 comments:
Offering up my own positive thoughts for low humidity for you next Friday night, as there is strength in numbers. I know you will be fine.
Yay I love it! "Only 9 miles." Yup, you're officially in marathon training. I can't wait to see you running the 18 miler, then the 20 miler! You will AMAZE yourself. Keep up the excellent work!
Yaya!
This is still the only way I can log in. For real. I'm not trying to up my "comments" count or anything. For real.
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