20 miles and headed downhill!

Last Saturday Ryan, Lauren and I braved the cold, the rain and the wind to complete our last long run of the training season before the marathon. Tomorrow we will run 12 miles and then the next week, only 6. Supposedly, if you can run 20 miles, you can run 26. We shall see about that. Lauren's sister will be running a few miles with us of the course and as Lauren has run a couple of marathons already, I believe her when she says that we'll be need some encouragment in those last miles. I've asked Jay and my mom to run a few miles with us too because I think it would be fun to have someone else to carry the conversation. Lauren and I talk just about the whole time we run but last week, as we found out, after about 3 hours of running, we'd both run out of things to talk about. In order to take our minds off the last two miles we had to brainstorm topics to talk about so that we wouldn't think about how cold it was getting and how tired our legs were. We finished the 20 miles in just over 3.5 hours so if we run about the same on race day we should finish in around 4.5 hours; that's a whole morning of running. I'd better not think on that too long because it seems crazier and crazier the more I imagine race day.

As we are now finishing up our training, we are also nearing the deadline for fundraising. I'm very close to my goal, which is a really good thing! The deadline for donations is March 31st so if you were thinking about donating, now's the time! The fundraising link is at the top of the blog so scoot on up to the top of the page and click your way over to the fundraising page.

Thanks to all of you who have already donated! We're almost there!!!!!