One Week Until the Marathon!

This is what all the training leads up to....I almost had forgotten that all this has an end. Alas, it does, and one week from today I will be posting (a) why I will never be running a marathon again, or (b) how I couldn't make it up the last climb at mile 20 because I tripped over my own shoelaces that had not wanted to stop and tie; consequently I did not finish the race, and had to be embarrassingly escorted to the hospital because I needed stitches about my upper eye lid, or (c) how I made it, and am tired, sore, lost the last toe nail to my name, but still triumphed. (Hopefully is the last one, because damn....those other two would kind of suck after all of this.) Ahh...memories! How easy I forget how this whole thing started 7 months ago as a last stitch, desperate effort to see if my body could or would ever go back to its old self. My last "long" run before the marathon today was good. Its funny how 12 miles seems like a relatively short run these days.

Weekly Mileage Report
Monday: off
Tuesday: 6 Miles
Wednesday: 6 Miles
Thursday: 5 Miles
Friday: Cross Training
Saturday: Off
Sunday: 12 Miles
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Total Miles Ran this Week: 29 miles