Today’s Run:  8.45 miles

Three training runs left before the marathon.  Seven days until the race!

We are a little under-prepared for the hills but I am confident that we can finish!  Let’s do this!!!

I have three off weeks from training before the training for my 50 mile Ultra begins.  That race is on March 1, 2014.  The training is a 15 week program.

I will be doing my long runs for this race by myself.  I will be running this race by myself also.  I knew this going into the race and I am okay with that.  There are some marathons that will be coming up that I can run as  training runs~just so that I am around people.  It gets lonely running 5-6 hours by yourself!

Now, to backtrack a little bit…I am an administrator for an online Running Club.  Our club has close to 200 members!  There are 64 chapters of this club and we are the largest chapter!!!  Bells and whistles for us.  One of our members is interested in running the same Ultra that I am doing. This person want to be my running buddy for the race!  How awesome is that!?!

My husband and son are planning on crewing for me and this guys wife and daughter will be crewing for him, so…they can all keep each other company while we trudge in the woods for 12 hours or so.

Just knowing that I will have another person in the general vicinity as me is a comfort.  The woods can be rather creepy in the dawn and dusky part of the day.  There is no nighttime running, hence the 12 hour time limit.  The race starts at 6:00 am so it will still be a little bit dark at that time.  Nice to have the company.

So, Yay!  I will have family meeting me at the turnarounds with fresh shoes and socks and goodies to eat, etc. and I will have someone with which to run so I will not be all by myself.  Nice!