Day 120. Nine days until I fly out to San Diego. I’m ready. At this point I’m just trying my best not to fall and break anything in the next week. A few weekends ago I ran just over 20 miles and it was pretty encouraging. Not necessarily the time but how I felt throughout the whole run and the fact that I ran the second 10 miles faster than I ran the first 10 miles. I still have a week + left of training… but I’m going to take it easy. I’ll run tomorrow and I’ll go for my last “long” run (10 miles) on Saturday morning, and then probably jog Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday before taking it easy for the big day. I’ve also decided that whatever time it takes me to run this marathon is a secondary concern to having fun running it. We got the route today in the mail and we are running by some pretty scenic things: SeaWorld, The San Diego Zoo, Petco Park, downtown, etc… So I am going to enjoy running the race rather than running to try to beat some time. Tonight I am off for our Team in Training “send off” dinner. Getting my racing gear among other things.
This entire four or so month training and fundraising period has been a pretty cool experience. I’m not going to get into too much right now and it worries me a little that I’m already becoming reflective when I still have the single hardest day ahead of me yet. Still, I am hoping to post some sort of journal entry before I fly out next Friday… and then I’ll definitely have a post-marathon wrap up journal before I archive this entire thing when I get back.
Thanks for reading.
Fundraising update: $3,953 of $3,900 raised. (101% raised)
Training update: 120 of 129 days complete. (93% complete)
hey jake,
sounds like you are ready to go man, will try to catch some of it when you run, but count on my mental support no matter what!
enjoy the race and I’ll be awaiting your reactions afterwards.
great job
Thanks Av! I’ll definitely let you know how everything goes… thanks man.
Congrats Jake