"Did we ever do a blog post this week?"
"Um ... we started one? But we never finished it."
"Maybe we could just tell people that we're too tired to write it."
Anyway....
This past Saturday's run went to 11.
And thanks to some early morning heat and some ... well, we'll charitably call it "seasonal" ... humidity, it felt a little bit like swimming. But we got it done. Eleven miles. Only two and a half more of those, roughly, and we'd be done with a marathon.
But who's counting?
Okay. Fine. We are.
The fuel belts were loaded up with 74 ounces of water and 8 GUs/Clif Shots. In an attempt to make sure we finished the entire run, we went out pretty slowly—a 12:30 mile. But it didn't really help in Ross's case, since he bonked somewhere around mile 6, walking intermittently in miles 8, 9, 10 and 11. And while Joy doesn't love the heat, she's happy to have the mileage done. We finished up in about 2:25, which is slightly faster than our slowest-ever half marathon time (2:59 and change).
Speaking of half marathons, that's our distance this Saturday: 13.1 miles. We're expecting more uncooperative (hot, humid) weather, so that'll be sweet!
Sometime soon, we'll have an announcement about a fundraiser that's going to be super-duper fun if you happen to be in Chicago on September 22. More to come....
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