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I'm still sore but I'm already plotting.... I'm not sure if this is normal.
If I keep the running up over the winter and spring, I would be in great shape to do SF in July or Portland in October. Possibly both if I'm ambitious but that would be pushing it.
Maybe.........
I want to get this all down before the feeling goes away.
Roughly seven months of training, punctuated by six hours of being out in the most miserable Seattle weather in my memory. 5 hours 59 minutes and 52 seconds to be precise.
Time to run!
The first month of the season is not going well. The rabbits currently stand next to last. Drastic measures had to be taken.
Out with Boozer and Iguodala.
In with Brand.
I think that was a gutsy move by me because Boozer has been playing well. Brand has not been performing but has a lot of upside as evidenced by him being a first round pick. Another interesting event happened today with Pau Gasol being dropped today. Due to the 2 for 1 trade, I now have 1 open spot on my roster. I'll pick up Gasol and stash him onto my roster. He is supposed to be back in December which is not too far away.
I think Boozer or Iguodala must have been bad karma because the day the trade happened, Diaw and Wallace had good games. They have been causing my team to lag this season. I'm crossing my fingers and hoping they keep it up
Hopefully my starting lineup at the end of the week will look like this:
PG S Nash
SG R Bell
G TJ Ford
PF D Nowitzki
SF G Wallace
F E Brand
C N Krstic
C B Diaw
The remainder of the team: D Gooden, T Murphy, K Korver, R Gay, R Jefferson, P Gasol, J Garbajosa.
Had the last long training run for the season. Starting tomorrow, it'll just be light runs for the week. The leg will hold up I think. It's mainly a confidence thing with it right now. I bought an IT band wrap which appears to help a little and I'm going to use it during the marathon.
The game plan for the marathon is a 9/1 run/walk ratio. It makes the math a lot easier to do during the latter stages of the marathon. I start walking every ninth minute and I start running every tenth minute. For the first 15 miles, I want to do a 11:20 - 12:00 mile pace. That's about 30 second slower pace than I can run over a half marathon. We'll see how I feel at 15, 18, 20, 21, 23 miles before I'll push it during the race. I'm also going to eat a gu at regular intervals, starting at about 49 minutes and one every 30 minutes after that.
I might be a spazz but I think the lock to the garage is jammed. I can't get my key all the way in. Of course I had to leave my cell phone in the car too. If you need to get a hold of me, drop me an email/im or call my home phone.
Stay up on till the witching hour on Halloween and start working on the novel when the clock hits midnight.
Hopefully this is the last time I stay up this late to work on the novel.
A 468 word start to the 2006 campaign. Edited a little bit which I need to stop doing for the other 49532 words
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