Song Of The Day: Keep Hope Alive - Artist: The Crystal Method

During a mid-July blog entry I mentioned that I was registered for the Marine Corps Marathon on Oct. 29. Well, here is a quick update on my training progress. Today I ran 24 miles in 4:06, which gets me close to a 4:30 marathon time. As I hobble around nursing aches and pains, I am happy with this effort overall. The pros are that I feel like I can complete 26.2, I wasn’t “exhausted” afterwards, and the time was a personal best. However, the main con is that I would’ve liked it under 4:00–something about those miles after 18 :).

I have some updates to my running gear as well. Although the Nike + Sport Kit is nice, I switched back to my Mizuno WaveRider 9 shoes and bought a Garmin Forerunner 305 GPS device and heart monitor. Unfortunately, the standard Nike Plus shoes started to bother my feet on long runs (>12) and the Nike + Sport Kit wasn’t as accurate as I wanted it to be for my longer runs.

Rock on all long distance runners and marathon trainers! I see a few out there in those wee hours.

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