Tomorrow is the half marathon! The forecast is still calling for thunderstorms in the morning, but hopefully, the worst of it won’t come until the afternoon.
Perry Romanowski, a joggler from Chicago, current holder of the joggling ultra-marathon world record, and whose blog was very influential in my getting into the sport, will be there tomorrow, too. I’m looking forward to finally meeting him. Not only is he joggling the full marathon, but he will be going much faster than me! You should definitely look out for him tomorrow.
I’m feeling a lot better about this race than last year. I ran 13.1 miles at the end of March with moderate success (walked a bit on the last few miles), and joggled the 10 mile Cherry Blossom Run a couple weeks ago with very little walking. So hopefully, I can at least do better than my dismal 2:47 performance last year.
Getting ready for tomorrow
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