I'm still here!!

Wow, so it's been a month since I updated!!

Sorry about that. My house has been crazy and stressful lately!! My boy's in baseball and it seems like every day is practice or games. My husband's schedule has made getting runs in together rough at times.

The weather here has finally broken into summer weather...the bad thing...it became hot and muggy real quick!! This week's running has given us a feel for running in the heat!!

A little run down of the past month...We are where we should be as far as the training schedule. We are averaging just over 20 miles a week. Our best week was a week ago when we ran 28 miles that week. Our weekly runs are 4 to 6 miles each and our long run is now at 12 miles. Last week's long run was still in cooler weather so it wasn't bad. As far as hydrating on the longer runs we have been keeping water or gatorade in our car. We run 3 miles out and back so we hit the car half way through and grab our drinks. Then we run back out 3 and back. So far this has worked for us. Now, this week is supposed to be close to 90 for a high so I will probably carry the camelbak on the run to keep us hydrated.

My father-in-law is running the marathon with us in October. He lives in Georgia where the tempertures have been close to 100 degrees!! He has not had a long run longer than 7 miles lately because of the heat (he is also 64 years old). He has ran his share of marathons though, so he knows what he is capable of doing. He told us that we are doing well with our training so it definitely makes us feel better!!

The long runs have definitely got a little easier. I seem to have gotten over the psycological aspect of running. Hills don't bother me like they have in the past and I don't stress over the distance anymore. The heat may prove to be something that I will have to fight through.

This week we are expecting to get in about 25 miles. We will see how it goes. We have slowed our pace a little so that the heat doesn't get to us. Our pace is about 10:45 to 11:00 on our maintenence and long runs right now. It is hard to keep that pace because we are used to going faster but for endurance purposes we feel it neccessary to do this.

I will update again after this weekend is over!!!

Until then, we will keep running toward our goal!!