I apologize for the delay in the update. It’s been a busy and slightly depressing two weeks. Let’s just say that I’m ready to get this marathon done. This training has been emotionally draining. I’ve been high and low week to week for months now.

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Here’s my update.

The hamstring issue is all good. I panicked because of my past problems with hamstring issues and because I was worried about getting enough training done before the marathon. After a few modifications to my training program, adding rest mostly, I was able to get my 20 mile run done that was included in my training calendar. This was my longest run to date. It was also a time that I could actually plan things to carry for the race. I wanted to actually see how much fluids and nutrition I was going to need to carry. I was spot on as far as the fluids but carried too many race gels with me. I’ll take that though. I’d rather have too much nutrition than too little. The only minor injury to report is a major blister on my left pinky toe. I went into the long run with a blister but hoped not to aggravate it further. But I did and it opened up in my sock during the run. It took off my toenail and everything. OUCH! It’s healing and should be fine for the race in ten days.

Yes, ten days! I’m almost there. Just a few small training runs and it’ll be time to go.