Today’s Run:  Running Group New Years Party!

Three More Days!  Today is Tuesday and since I am writing this in the evening, the day is practically finished.  So, that leaves Wednesday, Thursday and then Friday.  Saturday does not count either because we toe the line at 7:00 am!

What!?!  The Mississippi Blues Marathon and Half Marathon!  We have been training for this since two weeks after we completed the Half we ran in November and it has sneaked up on us fast!

Our training has been a little “off” for this race from the very beginning.  When we signed up for the race, we should have been training for it a month already.  Oops.  But we figured, “We just finished a Half, so ‘no problem’, right?”.  Well, it would have been okay except a couple of weeks later I broke my toe.  Bummer. Kept running with the toe (and yes, it did hurt).  Toe is now healed (yea!) and we were just a little behind on our training but not too bad.

Then we got sick.  Colds.  Yikes!  A week off for that.  So,as of yesterday, knock on wood, we are as ready as we can be, all things considered, to run a half marathon on Saturday.

13.1 miles.  7:00 am.  It’s supposed to be about 25 degrees F. and sunny.  Perfect running weather.  Will not overheat and it will be pretty!  Looking forward to Saturday.  This will probably (knock on wood) be our last race for this racing season.  Looking at the possibility of a full marathon next December with a buddy of my husband’s.