One More For The Road

I’m baaaaccckkk! Back to the public blogging world, and back to the marathon training.

That’s right, kiddies, it’s marathon training season again. Come December 2, I will hopefully be qualifying for Boston near the steps of the State Capitol.

I’m excited! I’ll be running from Folsom to Sacramento, on one of the fastest courses in the Western United States. People come from all over the country to run this course and try to BQ (Boston Qualify, in case you were wondering ). The course has a net downhill elevation, with quite a few uphills scattered throughout. I can’t believe I am thinking about doing another one. It’s a bit like childbirth. All the pain seems hazy when you’re given enough time to get over it.

Right now I am just trying to get my long runs up over 2 hours every Saturday. 12 miles will be my base, and I will add 20 minutes each weekend. I ran 2 hours last weekend, so this weekend will be 2 hours and 20 minutes, then 2 hours and 40 minutes, then 3 hours. Then back down to 2 hours and I start all over again.

 I’ll try to be better about updating this blog. I forget sometimes (I think I still have the pregnancy stupids =D ) but I’d like to have a running record of my training.

 For anyone who’s interested, here’s the link to the marathon:

  http://www.runcim.org/data/marathon.html

 Here’s the 10K Eric and I are doing in September (where he has challenged me and our friend Erica to a race, and I have every intention of kicking his ass):

http://www.hobfunrun.com/

 And this is the half marathon I’ll do in October as a training run for the marathon:

http://www.citytothesea.org/index.htm

That’s what coming up in the running world! Stay tuned for more information!