Archive for November 17th, 2008

If anything can color a run, it’s the weather, and we had the variety pack this weekend.  Saturday was surprisingly hot and humid, which made my pace about 15-20 seconds slower than usual.  Then yesterday it was chilly and super windy, so I broke out the gloves and tights for the first time this season.  Tomorrow looks to be cold and crappy (snow/rain) so I switched my day off from today to run 7 w/3 tempo this afternoon.  I’m currently killing time as usual.

After today’s run, I’ll have completed a 53.75 mile week, though technically, if we’re talking Mon-Sun, last week was 46.75 and this week looks to be about the same.  Not bad, either way.

Looking ahead to the weekend, the Philly marathon is on Sunday and I’m excited to be a race spectator for the first time in my life.  Saturday, I’m going to lunch with a couple gals on the Women’s BQ thread who are doing the marathon, so that’ll be a treat.  There are also a handful of additional forum pals running the race, so my plan is to crawl out of bed to join everyone at 6am, wish them luck, then go back to bed for a bit, do some tracking, then jump back out for the last hour or so.  This is the luxury of being so close to the start/finish.

I’ve heard fellow runners lament “Watching the race made me really sad I wasn’t running it.”  I am so sure I won’t be feeling this – in fact, I’m truly looking forward to watching from my lazy-ass vantage point.  I remember distinctly, at least 4 times in all my longer races, seeing casual non-racing runners and general spectators, wishing to hell I could trade places with them.  Now’s my chance.