The rain finally relented on Sunday afternoon, it was still misting but the downpour had moved on. So all my excuses for pushing off my LSD were gone. I started at around 3 p.m. and ran along Lincoln Road and turned around at the Diplomat, which is 11 K. According to the clunky RR pedometre that I was carrying, I hit 5 K in 22:30, 10 K in 45:30, turned at 50:13 and finished in 1:42:57. I ate a car-boom espresso gel before I left and then another at around 12 K. I actually enjoyed them, although I will likely stick with Power Bar gels.
It is exactly three weeks until the marathon and I have to admit the nerves are starting to get the better of me. Each time I feel a tweak in a muscle I panic. I'm not sure if I'm ready to run a sub-3:10 marathon and at this point I'm just praying to run a sub-3:30 marathon. Strange as it may seem, but I thought I was in better shape a month ago after the Saint John half marathon.
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