I'm gonna run 26.2 Miles

What's next

I'm still sore but I'm already plotting.... I'm not sure if this is normal.

If I keep up the running 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.........

Seattle Marathon 2006

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.

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.

8 days to race

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.

T - 14 Days

I finally went running again today. It's been a week since I've last run. I've been nursing the IT band injury all week. Today I decided to put some stress to see how it would hold up. The good news is that the knee is not sore today. The bad news is that I only ran about 50% of the time today.

I'm hoping it gets better real fast...

The longest run

Just got done with the longest training run for the season. I didn't go as far as I wanted to though I did put in all 3 hours. A combination of having a cold and an injury slowed me down. At this point, I think I'm ready as I'm ever going to be. I just need to rest and heal for the next 3 weeks (22 days to be precise).

I spent this week trying to figure out what was wrong with my leg. Went to the running store and looked at shoes. The shoes appear fine. I think it was something that just happens when you place that much stress on your body. I talked to one of the coaches today and her first reaction was that it's probably my IT band. Her second reaction was at least it's not my knee. Her prescription was to rest this week, ice, ibuprofien and massaging it.

Looks like I'll be doing that this week.