Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Taper Time

I got all of my long runs on the training program done, and now I have a head cold. I'm off work (and the kids are even off school) until after the marathon, so hopefully I can rest up in between my tapering jogs and show up healthy and ready to race on July 9th.

It's pretty hot here for Calgary this week, with highs in the 30s Celsius (high 80s F). Good for sweating out some germs. I think I might need to do a lot of work in my nice, cool basement today.

Friday, June 02, 2006

Counting Down

Only 36 days 23h 01m 56s until the 2006 HSBC Calgary Marathon! Actually less than that now, but I'm too tech-challenged and busy to figure out how to insert a proper countdown here. Head over to the site if you want to know how much time is really left.

My other blog at CompleteRunning is down for a couple of days (growing pains), but I'll still be out there training. I'm aiming for a 28-30 km long run this weekend. Wow! I rarely run that in a WEEK (when I'm not marathon training), much less all at once.

This week has actually been rather light, due to family schedule stuff in the evenings, when I usually run, and my laziness in getting out of bed early to run in the morning. Gotta fight off that "getting out of the house monster".