Chicago Marathon

20 days to the Chicago Marathon! And I will spend it by recovering from my 20 miles yesterday.  I'm feeling pretty good today.  My slightly out-of-whack left shoulder and lower back are feeling better.  Also, nothing out of the ordinary in terms of muscle soreness from the run yesterday - little quad soreness, ankle pain [...]

21 days to the Chicago Marathon!  And today I marked it by running 20 miles, my last long run before the big day.  Today was the 18 mile NYC Marathon Tune-Up race in Central Park.  I added 2 miles to the start of the race to get to 20. No sugar-coating here, the run was [...]

22 days to the Chicago Marathon! With no active workout yesterday, or today, I'll turn my attention to my current thoughts on the marathon itself. I'm having a hard time getting myself motivated, and excited, for the race. I guess it will come as the day gets closer, but for now, not much excitement. One [...]

23 days to the Chicago Marathon!  And I biffed another workout...  The story of my summer. We'll start with the good.  Yesterday afternoon, I did have a great session with my personal trainer.  Personal training is definitely NOT a part of my normal training, but this year I decided to invest, and let me tell [...]

24 days to the Chicago Marathon! My goal was to ride my bike this morning, and run tomorrow morning, but I didn't get the ride done. My plan was to be out the door by 5:30, go to Central Park for 2 loops, and be back by 7am, when it would be time to get Katie [...]

25 days to the Chicago Marathon!  Writing daily posts is actually going a long way to keeping me thinking about my training and making the extra effort to get my workouts in. After not making it to the gym to swim yesterday morning, I did make it last night.  My gym has open swimming from [...]

26 days to the Chicago marathon! Still honestly not obsessing too much about it yet. Just focusing on ramping up my training in these 2 critical weeks. In addition to the 4 miles I ran yesterday morning, I played softball last night. Running the bases and outfield is a great cross training running activity and [...]

27 days to the Chicago Marathon, and the time for procrastination is past.  These are the last 2 weeks for hard training before 2 weeks of taper.  Time to get some good quality miles in... I'm impressed that I've been able to do 2 runs in the 16 or so hours since I wrote the [...]

So, clearly, writing in my blog is not one of my priorities :) I'm gonna try an experiment here.  With only 28 days to go to the Chicago Marathon, I'm going to try to write a new post every day.  I give myself about a 4% shot at meeting this goal, but will give it [...]