Miles to date: 305
Money to date: $5,465
It's been an exciting week with lots of miles logged, but none of that compares to how much I am looking forward to this weekend. I will get to that in a few minutes.
This past weekend I had a friend's bachelor party on Friday night, meaning that Saturday's run was going to be painful. I had the foresight to set my alarm early and force myself to drink somewhere in the vicinity of five gallons of water. After some serious re-hydration and loading up on food I headed out to do a 14 mile run with a few friends.
On a cool, crisp morning we headed from Mass General out along the harborwalk down to Castle Island and back. One of the other runners was doing 18 miles and planned to keep going ahead, despite initially feeling like crap I felt pretty good by the end of the run and decided to put in an extra two miles.
This week the runs went well, if fairly uneventful. I ran four on Monday, ten on Tuesday and four today. Ten miles before work was a bit much, I had to leave the house by 5:30 and I still ended up running late.
The training schedule that Mass General gives it marathon runners actually suggest taking a day off from work the days you have to do these long runs. Even if I had vacation time to spare (which I don't) I can not envision a world in which I would take an entire day off for a run that takes just over an hour and a half.
The reason I am excited about this weekend is that as of Sunday I will officially begin tapering. The long, awful mountain of training is now largely behind me and we begin the countdown towards race day. There is the little matter of the 20 mile run on Saturday, but I'm choosing to focus on the good rather than the bad.
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