"You are getting up and running your 80 to 90 mile weeks because you are writing the history of yourself, making your own legend. Now your successes and failures ... may only be remembered and relived in your own mind over the years, or among the fairly small number of athletes who will follow you at your school if you do well enough to leave a legacy that will grab their attention after you have left, but the size of the audience isn’t that important. What is important is that we each have but one go around on this planet and the worst thing you can do is waste it sitting around watching others do, a mere spectator alone. Life is about getting up each morning and seeing what you want down the road. So get in that morning run, fight to the death in that race, hit on that girl and do it all with the knowledge that you are always writing the story of yourself and you are the damn star so you better live like a star. No problem being a fan along the way as well, God knows I am! but just make sure you are LIVING too!"


Nate Jenkins (2:14 marathoner)



Sunday, January 8, 2012

Marathon training - one week to go

99km this week. Mostly easy running but included 3 x 1600m in a 14km run on Thursday and also some strides after a couple of the easy runs during the week. Just 21km today @ 4.24/km. Felt very easy despite a bit of a breeze and I had to consciously slow myself down a couple of times.

We fly out tomorrow night, so I will get a run in tomorrow morning. We don't arrive in Houston until 4pm Tuesday and the sun sets at 5.40pm so I think I will be reduced to running on a "dreadmill" at the hotel. Rehearsal run on Wednesday will include 3km @ marathon pace but the rest of the week will be very much easy running.

From the Houston Marathon website:

Live Searchable Results & Map Tracking
Follow your runner(s) during the race by tracking their progress in real time as they move along the course with live, up-to-the-minute race results and an interactive map at chevronhoustonmarathon.com. 


The race starts at 7am on Sunday (9pm Perth time) and I am bib number 1130 in corrall A.

We will be getting new SIM cards in the US so we won't be contactable on our normal mobile numbers after tomorrow.  The best email address  to get us will be mailto:biscuitman1871@hotmail.com%C2%A0 and I am also on Twitter @biscuitman1871

Rox and Ben will also be on Facebook.
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