so i officially have a goal. tomorrow we are running our 13 mile run; the course is actually, according to joe, almost exactly 13.1 miles or a half marathon. just over a year ago, i ran a half marathon with a time of 2:43:31 (yes i had to look it up). so my goal is to beat that time…substantially. and if rachel and i are able to maintain our current long run pace of 10:40ish/mile that should be no problem considering that the official recorded pace for my previous race was 12:26/mile.
i have been sick for nearly a week, but am on the mend with symptoms adding up to a sore throat and a cough. hopefully these things won’t slow me down too much. i can only hope that my lack of activity (which i will from here on out refer to as “the resting period”) has left me so fresh and so clean for tomorrow morning. well, an extra vitamin water and i should be fine.