Coffee and Advil

Note to self:  Advil before the run=good, 8 cups of coffee before the run=bad. I must've made four pitstops during the first four miles of my run today.  My left knee is kind of bugging me from playing catcher while warming up M's pitching arm yesterday. Advil and a knee gasket were an absolute necessity.

Holy crap!  I haven't completed a double digit mileage run in a while.  It's a good thing that I had two days off prior to today's run because I was antsy to get out and put some miles behind me. Today's 10 miler was tough, but the weather was nice and my time wasn't awful (bad, but not awful).

Another realization that I made today:  I'm going to have to find a better way to bring water with me.  Carrying a bottle sucks, I don't want to wear a belt with a bunch of bottles on it so I think my only other options are prepositioning water along my route or buying a Camelbak.

Lastly, happy mother's day to any mothers who might read this.

It's Official!

Well, the easy part is done. I signed up and am now an official entrant to the 2009 Nationwide Better Health Columbus Marathon Nothing like dropping $70 to start making me feel nervous about it. I've got a lot of work to do between now and then.

In other news, I had a good 4.5 mile run tonight. It was the first time that I've run with someone who runs faster than I do. It kept me motivated when I wanted to slack off and it kept my pace under 9'50" which I was pleased with.

So it begins...

So I decided to run the 2009 Columbus Marathon.  I ran my first half-marathon in August of last year and decided that I needed to run a full marathon just to prove to myself that I can do it.  I don't think I'll be very fast, but it seems to me to be more of a mental test than it is physical.

I'd like to chronicle what I'm going through as I  embark on the training program, so voila' here's a blog.  Last night I ran an easy 3.6 miles at a rails to trails path in Hilliard.  It was the first time I had gone there and it was nice.