Long Run

I told you earlier in the week that I planed to run 26 miles this weekend. Well after thinking about it I decide to run only 24 miles. My reasoning is I wanted to wait until race day to see if I can finish the 26.2 miles. If I ran the distance before race day it seem like it would take away some of the suspense and excitement. It is a good thing that I only ran 24 miles. Even with great weather, it was the hardest run I've done so far. I'm not sure I could have finished 26.2 miles today - unless I crawled the last mile. It was 50 degrees when we started at 5:00am on Sunday, and only about 60 degrees when we finished at about 10:00am. My muscles ached, I got some blisters on my toes, and chaffing in places I don't want to talk about. It is getting closer - only 6 more weeks. I can't wait to see everyone.