Hi all.  Supposed to do an easy 3 miles but we'll see if it happens.  Ds is down and out today.  Woke up up around 4:00 a.m. with a fever.  He's been home and wanting cuddles.  I have sucked up my fear of getting sick and been the mom he needs.  It's been hard though.  I can practically see the germs swirling around him.  Saturday afternoon ... that's all I have to make it through.  If I'm sick Sunday, so be it, but please, please, please not sooner.  Elementary schools ... germ breeding grounds.  Ack.

I got my marathon plan from my coach.  She spelled out everything from Thursday through Saturday and included when I should carbo load, have a snack, and spend time visualizing and what to visualize and yes, also included instructions for an ice bath after.  She'll be on vacation during my race but wants me to call her after anyway so she can hear how I did.  I love my coach.  

Julia - Good job on your run today. Yeah, I can see how seeing military running in that area would tend to make one push a little harder. I find my smartphone takes only okay photo's. I'm debating taking a real camera on my marathon with me as scenery is supposed to be spectacular. But do I want to carry it is the question? Are the photo's worth it?

Swift - Have fun at your group run!

Jackdyl - I'm impressed you made it without looking at your watch. I'm so bad at that.

Scott - So was it your mind or body that "accidentally" forgot to pack your shoes? Which wanted that SRD today? Maybe you could wrap the purple dot around your foot for a makeshift shoe?

RVD - Hmm, you and Scott, SRD doesn't mean running.. Ha ha! Yeah, those are pretty minimal shoes. My feet would hate me.

SIAR - Great job on your run today. Do your legs ever slow down? How do you not eat too many cookies? I'm impressed and wish I had that kind of resolve. But no, I like cookies and nacho's. Guess what I can skip over? Ice cream. It's good but not a vice. Drives me nuts there are so many healthier ice cream options than there are cookie and nacho options. So not fair.

CC - Glad you are healing up nicely. Overall, I'd say your accident didn't put you out of commission for all that long. Awesome.

I skipped the double.  I wouldn't have finished until 9pm-ish and given that I'm doing a medium run bright and early tomorrow, that's cutting it too close...  One of my potential race day singlets arrived in the mail and it wasn't what I thought it would be either.  So, back to the drawing board.

Pressing, You got sooooo lucky!  And, that's a very nice cop.  I was just thinking about having duplicates of everything yesterday.  I think I'm just switching back and forth between too many things right now.