Long Run: 20 miles

This was basically fine.

We were still taking it pretty cautious. 4.5mph, 3 mile sets, on treadmills. Sometimes we didn't really stop between sets, just slowed to a walk for a little bit; or stopped briefly to reset the treadmill's timeout before starting it immediately back up at a walk. I felt like I could have gone a little bit faster.

I gather that marathon training regimens typically peak at 20 miles, then taper down a little bit in the last few weeks before the actual race. cinnabarine felt that that didn't really prepare her well psychologically for the full marathon, so we're going up to 22 and then tapering down-- we've got more than a month left, anyway. Except that instead of next week's long run we're going to run an actual half-marathon race, then do the 22 the week after.

So I guess it's basically just a bunch more conditioning with short runs, and getting back used to running outside. During the actual marathon I probably won't be watching several back-to-back episodes of "Supernatural," for instance.

I probably will still be consuming enormous quantities of gu. I experimented today with bringing some tums, also, which worked out well.