13 days to go...

And I am feeling confident.

I think my legs might fall off, but I will still be breathing at minimum. So thats at least hopefully. I have gotten in all my workouts this past week, feeling better about life and work and running (side benifits of runnning, and the reason I should always run)

Yesterday I ran my long run.. boy oh boy.. I knew I couldn't take it easy this week, this is my last long run for the books before the race, since next weekend I will begin tappering. Well I think accomplished running something that will prepare me, hopefully.

First off I made the mistake of washing all my running clothes (and i really do mean all of them) that morning, so I had to wait for them to finish drying.. getting me out the front door around 11-11:30.. it was a beautiful day, but a hot one. I knew I needed to run a good hill towards the beginning of my run, since I had been focusing on them more towards the end (default I live uphill, so its eaiser to run away from them and then come back). So i ran up the neighboring street to the entrance to the community forest... roughly 600 ft elevation gain in about a mile and a half... so that was a good start.
Then once I was under the trees I realized that I wanted to stay under the trees or I was going to shrivel up and die on the side of the road trying to run 10 miles, probably would end up calling it quites at like... so this ment more hills...
Probably a good thing.. So i headed up, about another 300-400 ft in about 3 1/2 miles... ran back down, and then finished up my last 3 on the road, and nearly melted away... but its done and accomplished.

I nearly didn't make it up the hill back to my house, but butt was burnning like crazy, but i made it, and I tried out shot blocks for the first time, b/c with running a marathon (and even really with the half) I am going to have to get my body use to running and getting more energy to it.

It went well, they where decently tasting, just big... but tasted like gummy snacks, not great ones, but way better then the thought of gels in my mouth. Aka- i didn't want to instantly spit it out... which is what i think of when i think of gels, even though i haven't tried those eaither.

I don't know if I will break 2 hours, I am going to try, but I will just be happy to finish it. I hope weather is good and I feel good, and I enjoy it... its an out and back course, which I do well with mentally. 13 more days to go, 5 more tough workouts to get some speed in my heels... getting excited about it.