Two More Months

Can't believe it, but there are only two months left till my marathon. My training has flown by and I've now been running for three months. I do believe that is the longest I've consistently ran ever. I'm now in the, perhaps, tougher time of training? I've crossed the ten mile marker and am still building. I think this Saturday we're running 14 miles. I'm a little nervous about it since my 12 miler last Saturday was awful. I started to get tired much too soon and had to slow my pace down significantly by the end of the run. My gels and energy snacks did nothing to help really either. I'm thinking it had to do with my rather large dinner the night before of Thai food. So tomorrow I'm going to eat a lighter more nutritious dinner and see how things go on Saturday.

In other news, I have new running shoes! Well actually, I now have NEW new running shoes. I originally bought a new pair two Saturdays ago at the running store (that so conveniently happens to be down the street from me). They seemed okay at first, definitely felt different on me feet. I can only describe it that my feet felt like they were being held differently. After a couple of runs, I decided that my feet felt like they were uneven inside my shoes. But, they were new fancy schmancy running shoes so I wanted to keep giving it a chance, maybe I'd get used to it. I took them on my long run (the 12 miler) and ended up with a couple of big blisters by the end of it. Fortunately they healed pretty quickly, but on my next run I could tell they'd come back. SO thankfully, the running store has a trial period with new shoes. I ended up going back yesterday and picking up the other pair of shoes I originally looked at. I now have a pair of Saucony's. Since it's raining (and I was in a grumpy mood from work) I decided to run on a treadmill at the gym (better than nothing, which I was very close to doing!). So my shoes' first trial run seemed okay. I could definitely tell my feet are being held differently, again, but they also don't feel as awkward inside the shoe. I was going to post a picture but technology seems to be failing me. I'll post it later.

So I found out that the Rose Bowl Half Marathon is pretty pricey. It's an $80 registration fee...and that's with a discount. So I may end up just doing the 10K which is only $30. Not quite what I wanted, but I have a lot of stuff going on with finding a new place to live so spending that much (when I've already spent SOOO much on running gear) doesn't seem like a good idea. A little bummed about that, but oh well.

Keep dry out there! Or run in it!