WELL, GUESS I'M NOT DOING A MARATHON

Not a whole ton new to report. I'm continuing to tick along and see marginal improvements here and there. Nothing major, but my true "easy" pace is slowly dropping, my speedwork is going well, my heart rate has come back to where it should be... all good things! I recently even worked my long run up to twelve miles without issue. Compared to where I was just three months ago, this is huge progress!

The New York Marathon was unsurprisingly cancelled this week. I had been expecting that and neglected to start officially training in mid-June like I normally would have done. I could see it coming miles away. I'm glad they cancelled it now though and didn't string us along. I won't seek a replacement, because, frankly, there won't be any. I also don't want to do a virtual marathon. Big "hell no" to that. Long story short, I will have no marathon in 2020. I'm cool with that.

So much winning. USA #1!

The New York Marathon will be giving us the option to defer our entry to 2021, 2022, or 2023. Which is great! The lottery odds are not good, so I'm glad I don't have to wait until I "win" it again. I plan to defer to 2021 and do it next year, assuming it happens. This year was supposed to be the 50th anniversary and they confirmed they'll be celebrating that next year instead. So hopefully it happens, I can do it, and I come back with some sweet 50th anniversary swag.

Other than those options, it is just the same old, same old over here. Definitely getting sick of the whole pandemic thing and a little angry that the United States has handled it so very poorly. I've been a very "good boy," but a lot of my fellow countrymen have not. So now we are all going to get punished because apparently some people thought everything was a hoax or plot by Bill Gates or something. So that's cool.