Massive Reality Check

The marathon post from yesterday garnered quite a bit of inbound traffic (beyond the normal Google searches for “Thomas Recall.”)  Thanks for all of you who stopped by - hopefully you’re still here. In following some of the referral links, I stumbled across a few other bloggers who are also in training.  One that struck me was A Marathon Leap, who has a countdown calendar on her front page that reads “…and there are 58 days until the Chicago Marathon.”  As they say - Hole-ee key-rap!  That is not to say I don’t think I’ll be ready, but, dang! that is coming up quick.

The main meme across everything I read seems to be how much the heat sucks for training.  Can’t say that I disagree there, but I think I’ve been lucky weather-wise through the whole training process. I’ve been consistently running three days a week since April 14th and have been rained on twice, yesterday being the only time it actually got me wet of any mention. I do know there were probably a couple early midweek runs that would have been rain soaked if I’d done them outside and not on the treadmill, but the only time I can fit those runs in was very early morning and given the time of year, it was pitch black outside.

The weather for this Saturday looks to be ok for the morning. My nine miles should take me just over an hour and a half, and if I squeeze it in the morning I should stay dry and relatively cool.