Thor's Running Journal

6 easy effort miles and I loved them First run of the season with leggings.  Went groceryshopping with the kids and got a menu plan together for the week. It sì all happening so fast now. Hard to believe it is almost over. Its been such a good cycle. It's felt hard and without a doubt challenging, but never impossible. My body just kept waking g up and I kept putting one foot in front of the other. I keep saying it, but what ever happens on Saturday I am a proud of the effort and dedication day in and out. I feel the fresh feeling of "if I can do this... What else is possoble?!?!" much like I did way back when I finished my first marathon 2 years ago. An hour a day of focused work on a singular task for 4.5 months wasn't easy all the time, but it sure feels good now.

 There are lots of things that can happen in a week, but there is a sense of relief making it this far along. It warrants a moment of reflection on all the interesting things that a training cycle brings with it. Not all runs are memorable, but there were a few that stood out. Especially those vacation runs because I was outside of my neighborhood...Smiths Grove KY, Fayetteville WV (oh those hills), Indianapolis IN. And off course the integration of the sailing adventures with the running regimen. 4 And just so many days of waking up in the middle of the early morning and hitting the pavement.  Race day will mark my 101st run of the training cycle. Pretty momentous.  This morning I dropped Pascal off to ref a soccer game and went for a beautiful daylight 8 mile easy effort run around SVSU campus. The sun just came up and it made the trees glow. So lovely. I've also been thinking...I think I've got a real shot at going 3:10. I redid all the math and it is within spitting d...