California International Marathon

 Last post of the year.  Missed the last few months because a lot has been happening.

I moved!

But before I moved, I ran a marathon.























3 hours 48 minutes and 44 seconds.

I finished running feeling pretty strong, a little cramping, but not enough to stop me from walking to my car afterwards.

It was raining, hence the hat, but not that much. So my goal of running a marathon was met, running under 4 hours also accomplished, but not Boston Qualifying.  I've already signed up for the next marathon.  Since speed training doesn't seem to do much for me (I'm not getting any faster), I'm going to focus on bulking up on miles for this go.  During this attempt, I held a lot of 8:30s, but crashed for the last 3 miles to low 9's.  I want to focus on trying to hold the 8:30s or better.  I just finished day 6 of 11 mile runs for a total of 66 miles.  I haven't ran that many miles in a week for years.  If I can stick to the plan, I should break 80 miles a week during training.  I'm blending my own training plan based on McMillan, Hansen, with a little Ed Whitlock thrown in.

I moved to Washington state. My sourdough starter survived the journey.

Sadly, one of my boxes containing miniature supplies did not!  I'm grateful that it wasn't a box with any of my figures, but I lost a good amount of my trees, all of my entrenchment/barbwire markers, a BF109, a P47, my minefield markers, my hit markers, and all of my unit markers - several weeks (if not months) worth of work.