Two weeks in...

Two weeks into my marathon training. Right now I'm running a 7:30 mile, well under my goal of an 8:00 mile for the marathon, but the distances have been short so far, 5 miles has been my longest run. If you combine my first 8 workouts I did run a marathon, 26.2 miles in 4:05:00. But that was over 8 days and includes my 10 minutes a day of warm up and cool down, so its not a real time.

My two week distance total has been 38.43 miles in 5:55:00 (including my warm up and cool down). That is a 9:14 mile. Very soon my distances will be dramatically increasing, so we shall see how that goes!

As for my knees, that have been doing very well. Something I have been very excited about. But yesterday at Big Lots one of the associates got my angle with his metal cart he was using and now my ankle is all swollen and still. Very little pain when I'm running, but after the run is over it starts to throb... So far the plan is to run through it and hope the pain and swelling goes away soon. On to week three, 22 weeks to go!