Much to discuss

Miles to date: 312

(Sidenote - WOW)

Much to discuss since our last update, lets dive right in.

Training has been coming along well. There have been some bumps and a lot of growing aches and pains but things are going as well as can be expected.

Roger and I tackled 20 miles last week. It was about as bad as one would expect. It took a little over three and a half hours to complete. The weather cooperated leading to fairly ideal conditions. That being said, there is no such thing as ideal conditions for 20 miles.

Roger played the role of motivator and tried to keep me moving. Despite his best efforts I was the one advocating for quite a few stops. At least now it's behind me (sortof, there is another coming up)and I can say I've done it.

Last weeks training runs were actually among the toughest to date as all the aches and pains that have been building up were only exacerbated by the 20-miler. I cut back on the runs and only did 4 on Tuesday and Thursday (Wednesday's run remained at 8).

This past weekend I put down 13 miles on Saturday morning. As much as I was looking forward to "only" running 13, it was a pretty tough run. The weather was much hotter and stickier than I was expecting and it made the run difficult.

I was expecting the run to go fairly smoothly considering all the distances above and beyond 13 I have put in; the reality was a little different. There were more walking breaks than I was anticipating but despite that I came in at a pretty decent time.

This weekend I am looking at my last real long run before D-Day. Roger, Steff and I are planning on running the first 20 miles of the Boston Marathon course. The plan is for Meghan to drive us out to Hopkinton and then we'll finish in the heartbreak hill area.

I can not wait for this to be over.