Here we are, about to start our last week of summer vacation. Or, my kids are at least. I've been crazy busy trying to get back on track with my job, our house, my marathon training, and this blog. All of them seemed to take a backseat to traveling with the family this summer, but now it's time to pay the piper. My training this week went better than previous weeks, at least from a hitting my paces standpoint. I did shorten a couple of run and miss one entirely, but I had a successful pace run on Wednesday where I actually had a couple of sub-10 miles. My 10 miler on Friday also went way better than the 16 miles I did in feels like 105*. Then I celebrated my birthday. Oops. OK, it was a pretty awesome birthday, but I paid … [Read more...]