I'm running 26.2 miles this weekend! The catch is 20 will be on Saturday and 6.2 will be on Sunday. So I'll still be a marathon virgin. I wouldn't go and sneak a marathon up on you. You know that.
Funny thing is, I almost completely forgot about that little 6.2 on Sunday. I'm running the Pints to Pasta 10K but it will be the day after a 20 mile training run, so I won't be able to set a PR or anything during the race.
I signed up a long time ago, maybe like six months, and it mostly escaped my mind. I didn't even consider it when planning my marathon training like I did with other races. Anyways, I'll be there with Laurel so while I've been talking to her about the race since that, it took me a while to put two and two together, and in the meantime, scheduled a twenty miler the day before.
As for the race itself, I'll just run it for fun. We'll have to see how I feel after my twenty miles on Saturday, but I'm guessing not very fresh. If my first two twenty milers were any indication, anything under 8:00/mile would be a miracle. It would be really stupid to run this hard and injure myself four weeks before the marathon, so I'll just feel it out on race day. I won't take it seriously and won't count it as an official "race" in my arsenal. It'll still be fun though.
You should have seen the celebration in the car today as I was driving home from work. I thought I had to run again today to get my three weekday runs in. It would have been the third day in a row, the third time running the same route (couldn't make run group this week), etc. I was not looking forward to it. In addition, it had been gray all day and then on my ride home it started to MONSOON and rain just a crazy amount. I thought I was going to have to trudge out there in that. When I remembered the race on Sunday, taking care of today's miles, I might have danced a little bit in my car on Interstate 5.
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