My training for the Portland Marathon is near the end and I've been running low mileage this week and will run low miles over the next week in preparation for the big event a week from today.
Before training for this marathon, the longest distance I've ever run was 13.1 miles at the U.S. Half Marathon in San Francisco a few years ago. During the training for this marathon, which I started about 3 months ago, I have run over 13.1 miles on 6 occasions, including two 20 mile runs in the last few weeks. If I didn't feel like a runner before, there is no question about it now.
Today's run (8 miles) was inspiring because I met a guy, Josh, at Lake Merritt who was running 10 laps around Lake Merritt for his 40th birthday. That's a distance of 50K, or about 31 miles. I joined him on his last lap and was amazed that he was able to carry on a conversation after having run more than a marathon's worth of mileage, and that he seemed like he could run at least another few laps if he had to. Happy birthday to Josh!
Oh yeah-- I forgot to post about event #3 of 30 that the whole family did last weekend. We did the 5K Heart Walk in Danville, Ca and helped to raise over $10,000 with Melanie's coworkers! Only 27 events left until August 13th, 2010.
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