Sunday

Today was an easy 12 with 10 strides. I need to keep these strides rolling throughout the next 11 weeks. The trials are 12 weeks from yesterday, so a long ways off. I am feeling ok through the first 3 weeks of workouts. I would say things could have gone much better. The weather has had a huge affect on my training. Looking forward to better weather which I am sure will produce better workouts which I am sure will produce better races in the future. Looking back on last years build up to the chicago marathon has me wondering when I will start feeling that feeling. By feeling I am refering to that feeling that things are going really well. It was basically in my 5th week that things started to roll better and just got progressively better throughout the rest until the peak race.

I am super motivated by the results this am from the 15k team race. We got beat by a solid run n fun team. We got beat with most likely our best or close to our best guys. Nothing wrong with that. I am looking forward to the next team race in early september. Even though we cannot beat them it would be nice to win this last race. The distance will even things out and that should make for some interesting results.