All Systems Go

It looks as though I'm about as ready for next week's Toronto Marathon as I can be, so the Full Forty Two (Point Two) it shall be.

A second 25k run on saturday felt good, even better than last week, so I think I can survive the full distance without significant a) damage b) humiliation. As for projected time, er... four-ish? It all depends, really. I plan on walking most of the aid stations so a Boston qualifying time is - wait, sorry, laughing too hard here - okay four hours. Let's leave it at that.

My friend and 3 time IronMan 'M' has tried to give me an out, pointing out (quite correctly) that I don't HAVE to do this race as prep for IMLP. It won't really matter one way or the other, mileage-wise. True, oh wise one, very true. But I would rather have 3 marathons in my back pocket before IMLP than 2. Ya feel me, bro? It's just a mental edge thing, which might come in handy when I'm suffering like a dog on the back half of the marathon next July.

Just as an aside for casual readers, Boston qualifying time for my age group is around 3:20:00. That's fast. About 15-20 minutes faster than my time for last year. Not gonna happen this year, fo sho.