This past weekend my sister Shannon and cousin Taylor joined them, and they had a great time. What's that about Taylor dressing up as a chicken?!
Meanwhile, Ray and I spent the weekend training hard for the upcoming races - a marathon on November 1 and the big 50-mile race on November 21. On Saturday we ran 18 miles, and on Sunday we ran 16. For some reason, 6 and 1/2 hours of running really fills up a weekend, mainly because it also requires a lot of eating and sleeping!
It also requires a bit of putting ourselves back together; Ray and I are both nursing minor injuries from the wear and tear of training - Ray's knee and my ankle. It's just what happens when you push yourself for so long. We do a lot of stretching, soaking, rubbing, icing, heating, and popping Advil - and a little whining (mostly me).
This coming weekend we will run a full marathon - 26.2 miles - in Manchester, New Hampshire. It will be the last run we do over twenty miles before our big race, and the 12th such run we've done this year. An even dozen - woo hoo!
For those of you who are doing the math, that's over 240 miles. Combined with all of the other training runs, we've run over 1,600 miles this year - the equivalent of running from Washington, DC to Denver, Colorado.
I just hope that we can make it through the weekend without making our injuries worse. From here on out, we only need to run another 125 miles before the big race! We're so close.
More to come!
