The "Real" Training is in full swing, and I'm officially registered for the race!!

Well so far so good, I'm nearly two weeks into my "real" marathon training and I'm feeling great. I'm running four days a week and cross training one day each week. Each week gets a little harder with the runs getting a little farther, for the most part that is. To give you an idea of what I'm doing to get ready, I will show you what this week and next look like.

Monday 20th - 3 miles
Tuesday 21st - 4 miles
Wednesday 22nd - Cross train (elliptical)
Thursday 23rd - 4 miles
Friday 24th - Rest
Saturday 25th - 5 miles
Sunday 26th - Rest

Monday 27th - 3 miles
Tuesday 28th - 5 miles
Wednesday 29nd - Cross train (elliptical)
Thursday 1st - 4 miles
Friday 2nd - Rest
Saturday 3rd - 6 miles
Sunday 4th - Rest

As I look farther into the training schedule it definitely seems daunting. However, if I just take it one day at a time, it doesn't seem all that bad.

Previously I had talked a lot about the knee pain I had been experiencing. While I would love to say it has completely disappeared, that wouldn't be true. I still get the knee pain occasionally but it is very limited in frequency and intensity, and usually doesn't last long after a run. This has been huge for me, and hopefully I can keep up the run schedule I have now. If it does return, I will likely have to cut out a day of running.

The only other thing that I've done since the last post, is register for the race! It took me this long mostly due to my laziness, but the longer the wait the more it cost, so I went ahead and registered. This means if I back out I'm out $100 bucks, and I'm not going to waste that money!

Well not a whole lot more to say now.

Current Shoe Mileage: 62.7

Next time....Bonk??