Marathon training should come with a warning!

I am totally slacking on this blog and posting updates. I sincerely apologize, really. If there were only an extra 2 hours in a day, this would be updated every week. Actually probably not since I'd be using it to run more or sleep! Like the title say, marathon training should come with a warning that your life pretty much ends as you know it for about 16 weeks!

So where am I, how am I doing etc? WELL. Been battling Posterior Tibial Tendonitis in my lower left leg since about New Years. (That's just a fancy name for shin splints essentially!) I started going to Physical Therapy at Kennedy Brothers (shameless plug) about a month ago now, and I must say, Jake truly is a miracle worker. While I was banned to the eliptical for a few weeks, he certainly proved worth the time since I ran a half marathon this past Saturday, Feb 7th, in about 2 hours 10 mins!! If I can keep that up, it puts me on pace for a 4:20 marathon, which for my first, would be a ridiculous good time. I'm not holding my breath though... All that matters is that Saturday's run felt good and I had relatively NO pain whatsoever. Jake really is a miracle worker...

Coming up tomorrow, Valentines Day, or Singles Awareness Day as I call it, is our 16 mile 'Love Your Liver' run. We will all be dressed up in pink, red and white in honor of Valentines Day, and I am told that the news trucks will be along the route. We start about 10 miles into the Marathon in Natick, and will run all the way back to Boston to the finish line on Boylston St. I am REFUSING to cross the finish line until the actual marathon. I don't want to cross that line for the first time in my life unless its for real.