Ok...So training has been going actually quite well since the Leadman in AZ.  That race was a bit of a beat down...but great early season training.

And that's all I have to Say!!

The music city marathon was an epic race.  The skies shit all over the runners for 4.5 hours of the race. It was surreal that as I was .5 miles out from the finish line that the rain stopped.  All of the animals backed up and stood on the arc, waiting to exit.

I left the house at 4:30AM on race day.   I ran to the start line from Brentwood and did about 14 miles in about 2 hours.  Lightning caused me to hole up at a local church in Brentwood.  Total time for 40+ miles was 6 hours and about 35 minutes.  All in, it was a pretty sporty time.  I had a couple of great pacers.  GG had me running an 8:30/mile through mile 5 when I had to give him the nod to go on without me.  On an ultra run its a big no no to run the hills, which i did through mile 20, knowing that I had another 20 miles to go...at that point I realized that I had my hand on the stove and the only remedy was to back off and slow the pace down.  Unfortunately, the temps were in the 50's with 10MPH winds...not too cool..actually too cool.

I struggled from mile 30 to 35 until I met this nice lady from NC..she and I had a nice chat, exchanges jokes and scripture...a rather odd combination..but it worked...I was obviously telling the jokes.

Since the race I've been running trails and doing some serious strength training getting prepared for the summer DR...gotta say..I'm a pretty motivated cat.

Game on....PT