Day 83. I had these big plans to run back home to my parent’s house this past Saturday, but to do that I knew I was going to have to buy some kind of “belt” that could hold both water and some gel packs… and I just didn’t have the time to do it at the end of last week. It is a little over 12.5 miles from my door to theirs, so that run is going to happen… possibly this next Sunday? But instead of running home, I ended up running 15 miles in circles around my neighborhood. I didn’t exactly run them consecutively; I ran 5 miles, took a 10 minute break to stretch… then repeated that two more times. My splits for the three runs were 47, 42, and 46 minutes… at or around 9 minutes a mile… which is where I think I want to be once race day hits. I’ve read the average time for men to run marathons is 4 hours 32 minutes… and a 9 minute pace would put me just under 4 hours for the race… which would be great. A lot of people have been asking me what I would consider a successful time… and I have always said that I just want to finish… which is true. But I guess the three tiers of “success” for me come race day are going to be 1) Finish 2) Beat the average time for men (4 HR 32 MIN) and 3) Come in under 4 hours. I would be content with just the first, happy with the second, and ecstatic with the 3rd. *shrugs*
I’m playing at “The Bar” this Friday night, which is looking like it’s going to be a great night. My cousins have been awesome in setting it up and promoting it. There is going to be a $3 cover at the door and all of the money is going to LLS to help me hit my fund raising goal… which is inching closer and closer to the $4,000 mark and my goal. It’s going to be a fun night, you all should stop on out.
Fundraising update: $3,159 of $3,900 raised. 81.0% raised.
Training update: 83 of 127 days complete. 65.4% complete.
If you want to read my full marathon journal… go here: http:www.jacobfannin.com/team-in-training.
