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24 Days to Go :)

5 miles, treadmill, 8:30 pace. Wow, its getting closer by the day, tomorrow is the start of Marathon Month! Beware the ides of March.

26 Days to Go

5 miles, 37 degrees, didn't time it. Easy slow run. Wednesday marks the start of my last "long week" 5, 8, 5, 20 & 5 coming up. Then its time to start the taper... counting down the days!

27 Days to Go

11 miles, treadmill, 8:50 pace. Boring! Hard to believe that there's less than four weeks to race day.

29 Days to Go :-)

5 miles, 39 degrees, winds 20mph. I didn't time this run but felt strong from start to finish. I can't believe that I now have less than 30 days to the race!

30 Days to Go

4 miles, treadmill, 8:30 pace. Easy day today.

31 Days to Go

5 miles, 52 degrees, 8:40 pace. Felt great to be outside with shorts on today.

Channel 4 Interview

This morning Julie Carey of NBC Channel 4 news was out at my house to interview me on my marathon running. Hopefully the story will run some time the week before the Marathon.

I have to confess to feeling like a bumbling fool in front of the camera. There was so much that I had wanted to say about Team World Vision and my fundraising for them and I forgot about most of it! I even had some great one line sound bites that I forgot to throw in. In all my years of public speaking I don't think I've ever said, "umm" and "ahhh" as much as I did in 30 minutes this morning, I can only hope that the editing will take care of that.

I wish I had done a better job of highlighting the plight of the poor, in particular the AIDS orphans for whom I'm running, every 14 seconds another child becomes an AIDS orphan that means in the four hours it will take me to run the marathon about 1000 more kids will be orphaned. (This is the kind of information that hits home and that I forgot to mention, ugh!)

34 Days to Go ;-)

20 miles, 9:06 pace, 34 degrees and a 20 mph wind! What a run, it was fine most of the time, except when going into the wind and then at mile 10 a snow "shower" came in. It didn't feel like a shower, I was in the most exposed part of my run and the wind really picked up as I ran straight into it, it stung, I could barely see to run. Considering the conditions I was very happy with my performance.

36 Days to Go - "Stupid Poverty"

5 miles, treadmill 1% incline, 8:40 pace.

I couldn't help but think of the kids that will be helped by the money raised for this run. Bono reminds us that we will always have poverty in the world but that there's, what he calls, "stupid poverty," and that we can do something about. In my case, try and raise $2620 for AIDS orphans in Africa.

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37 Days to Go

8 miles, treadmill, 8:45 pace. That's about as far as I want to go on the treadmill, I hope the roads are clear for my 20 miler this Sunday.