Down to it...

Today I am 4 days away from the marathon. I haven't been very good at keeping up on the blog for the past 6 weeks of so. I'll try to recap a bit.
The week of Oct. 4th I did ok. I hit my total goal miles anyway. The next week was terrible though. The plan called for 53 miles in the week and I only did 19. We had gone to Utah to see Morrison (and everyone else there of course). On the 12th we were to drive home and I didn't want to run and then sit in the car for 10 hours so I skipped the run. As it turned out I didn't run that whole week until Saturday. On Saturday I ran 19 and it hurt. I decided the week of rest wasn't a good thing.
The next week I did better but still didn't hit the miles. I had a good speed workout on Tues (10/20). I ran 2x(4x800) at a good pace and felt good. Wednesday I didn't have time to get 10 miles in so I only did 5 and then I didn't run on Thurs or Fri. Saturday morning we volunteered at a Half Marathon so I ran in the afternoon. Amber has had some pain in her knee so she rode a bike along with me. I felt pretty good at the start but about 5 miles into the run I felt spent. I kept going but at about 10 miles I asked Amber to ride back to the car and come back to pick me up. I kept going but at times I walked and by the time I had reconnected with Amber I had gone 16 miles. I was really exhausted and felt very hungry. We stopped at a Carl's Jr and I got a big hamburger and was amazed at how much it revived me. I guess I just wasn't well nourished in preparation for that run.
The week of Oct 25th... to be continued.