Early morning

Well, I did it. I woke up at 5:45a to get a run in at 6:30a. I'm crazy. But I did it so that I could run with a bunch of people that call themselves the Dark Thirty Runners. It's an email list that my old publisher informed me about. Most of them train for the marathon so they are too fast and run too long and train way too early for me to join them. But here I am, typing this out at 8am. Today was just an easy jog day at 2 miles for their training. The majority of them are running the Chicago Marathon tomorrow morning while I have a measly 3.1 mile race to do in Oregon. One guy said that he'll be mentally cheering me on at the 3 mile mark of his race. HAHA. One guy even flew in from Denver to run in the marathon tomorrow. I did inform a lot of them about the Rockford Marathon. One is doing it and I got another one to think about it. It was nice talking to people about running. I never had that before. So I got to hear about the crowds and the support system in the race. I never ran in a race that had a marathon associated with it. Memphis is going to be much different than Chicago; 11,000 compared to 45,000 but I hope it'll still be the same. We'll see. Either way, I'm pumped for it! And come 2008 I'll in the same boat as them; getting up before the crack of dawn doing a run to get all my 15 miles in.

Good luck to all the marathoners out there doing the Chicago one tomorrow!

I'm off to buy new running shoes. Good time to do so; break them in in time for the HM in less than 2 months time!

Categories: Chicago Marathon, dark 30