I'm gonna run 26.2 Miles

T - 27 Days and Counting ....

Things have not gone so well over the last week. I caught a cold during the last week. I am home trying to recover from it. Right now the cold is only affecting my head so I should be good to train this week though only at lighter effort. Note to self: Perhaps some warmer running clothes are in order now that it is colder outside especially while recovering from this cold.

I also seem to have picked up a slight knee injury. There is a slight pain outside of my right knee when I put weight on it. The pain goes away after a couple of days of rest so I should be fine (crossing my fingers, knocking on wood). I've been icing the knee and hopefully it should feel better with some rest.

It appears to have coincided when I switched to a new pair of running shoes two weeks ago. I bought a new pair of Mizuno Renegades. My old Renegades are also giving me trouble too. At this rate a switch to my other running shoe, the Brooks Addiction appears to be in order.

I wonder if my running gait has changed significantly over the last six months? I run in heavy motion control type shoes because that was what I needed six months ago. I've done research and it's sort of uncommon for my feet structure (I have fairly high arches). It's not something I want to mess with during the next month but food for thought.

I have not been slacking off!

T - 37 days and counting...

The only thing I've been slacking off with is my blogging. In particular blogging about my running. NaNoWriMo is around the corner too (11 days and counting). Working on the blog is a nice way to get warmed up for the literary marathon.

Imagine that I'll be doing a marathon both literally and figuratively.

On to the running news. It has been a pretty intense couple of months. The last time I updated my blog with news, I had just signed up for the Super Jock n' Jill half marathon. I'm happy to say I did it. 2 hours 20 minutes and some seconds. This was at the start of September. It was a great experience and I learned from a number of mistakes I made during that race.

1) Don't start too fast
2) If you're going too fast, slow down!

Nothing that I didn't already know but I need to constantly remind myself of it. Starting slow and finishing strong is what I want.

On a personal level, I come much further than this year than ever. In previous years, around this time I would have quit already. Helping to raise funds for LLS and training with their marathon program has really pushed me past my quitting point.

I'm not quitting this year!*

We're coming down to the stretch. Tomorrow we have a 2:40 run. Two weeks after that it's our longest training run at 3:00. Then we start the tapering phase. I'm scared and nervous about not having enough training to do those 26 miles but mildly optimistic that I'm not going to keel over.

Oh well! Just have to remember to start slower....

*Unless I'm medically unable to