26 miles DONE!!!

Thank you!! I'm looking forward to the excitement of race day!!! It been 6 long months of training!!

That's awesome.  I can't' wait until my stamina is up more so I can really start enjoying life.  I'm only 3 months out from surgery and can't wait for all the snow here to melt, so I can enjoy the outdoors again.  I really can't stand being outside in this weather! My goal is a triathlon and I really hope I can build up my endurance for it!

Thank you!! It does feel great to be active!!

You can do it!! I never thought I would be training for a marathon! But here I am??

Congrats man!  That's awesome!  Living in California you probably had to run some hills too.  heh heh.   We are hill deficient in Louisiana so pretty much all my training is flat.

I did my 20 miler last weekend and I'm on my taper right now to my event on the 24th.   I'm following a training schedule that stops at 20 so the first time I do the 26.2 will actually be on race day.   I have no doubt that I could finish though.   I ran the entire 20 miler last weekend and finished in around 3:38.   That included the 25 minute colon blow that I experienced halfway throught he run.  :)   I'm sure glad that port-o-potties were lining the streets in downtown Baton Rouge in preperation for the Mardi Gras parade crowds!  I guess if I can keep up my pace I'll be able to finish the real deal in 4:30.  Slow, but I don't care.   Crossing that finish line is all I care about.  

Once again congrats and best of luck on race day!

Thank You!!

4:30 is slow??? Wow!! I had a slim hope to finish in the 5's maybe 6 hours!!

There are alot of hills but most of our training runs was mostly flat!! I added some hill training to my workouts because the first 2 miles of the L.A. Marathon is up hilll!!

Good Luck with your marathon!!

I was reading on a running board some assclown 2:30 marathoner was *****ing about the 'dumbing down' of marathons and how the "charity" events were runing the sport.   He was blabbering about how anything over 4 hours meant that the person hadn't trained like they supposed to and they should pay their dues on 5 and 10Ks.  I wanted to respond but decided not to because I'm not sure what good it would have done.   Too bad he didn't post a picture because I would gladly go punch him in the kidneys right before the race so he could be all 'slow' and in the back with me.  :)