Marathon: One Week Away

It's nearly impossible to believe that the marathon is only one week away! We had our last group training run today and my running group has just about settled on our plans for where to meet before the start of the race and how we hope to pace ourselves to finish. I'm shooting for 5 hours or less, which you may recognize as a pretty slow marathon, but, well, finishing slowly is better than not finishing at all.

I've said it before but I'll say it again: It's hard to believe we've all made it this far. The 8-mile run we did today in 1.5 hours felt like a warmup. That doesn't mean 26 miles is going to be easy next week, but I really do think we're all going to make it and that's what counts.

I've also said this before but it merits repeating: Thank you thank you! to the many people who have given so generously to my marathon fundraising drive. I'm now only a few hundred dollars away from the $1700 I committed to donate, so if you've been thinking about throwing a fiver or a ten-spot or more into the mix but just haven't gotten around to it, it's definitely not too late—you can easily donate right now! And, as always, if you have more time than money, please just [nevermind. This has been edited to comply with commercial restrictions].

At the risk of getting ahead of myself, I'm thinking it would be a big waste to have gotten all trained up for a marathon only to quit running as soon as it's over. So I'm thinking, how about running the Wyoming Marathon on Memorial Day? It's just an idea at this point, but I think it would be a pretty nice way to celebrate graduation from law school, don't you?

Oh, and if you're planning to run the MCM this coming weekend (or any other marathon in the future), you might find some utility in the Marathon Pace Wristband Creator.

Posted October 23, 2005 08:43 PM | marathon