My training isn't going so good right now. I'm in a bit of a rut have gone through a period where I think I was over trained. I had cut back my mileage drastically and I'm just now building back up. I had peaked at 45 miles about 6 weeks ago, but I only ran 30 miles last week and should hit 35 miles this week.

My update: I'm finally starting to get in some injury-free, consistent miles. It has come around later than I thought, forcing me to revise the goal. I got in my longest run of the year on Saturday...11 miles. I'm hoping to build that to 18 two weeks out from the marathon. It's not an optimal tapering strategy, but the way training has gone, I feel it'll be more important emphasize the longer miles. My marathon PR is off a long run of 18, so I'm comfortable that will be enough. For the race itself, I'm planning to go out 30 seconds per mile slower than the pace I feel I could maintain for the full race and hold it to 10 or 13, depending on how things feel. I just want to finish positive, within 8 min of my PR.