Running Shoes Reviews

First off, I haven’t gotten any (that’s right, a big ol’ zero!) shoe reviews this month…so, with 3 days left to the drawing, I’m canceling the shoe give away. I haven’t had time to go to any races or to the gym and get runners to review their shoes and I’ve been pretty much incommunicado on the interwebs…sad! I’m not going to do a give away for another couple of months until I have more time to get a bigger number of reviews.

Sorry

In other news, I’m running my first marathon in a week and a half! I was feeling 100% on the mark with training up until 3 weekends ago when I was playing “giant paintbrush gladiators” with my bf at the 2009 Art Olympics. This is what the gladiator game looked like:

So, I lost the gladiator game, falling off the podium backwards with significant spine compaction upon impact. It hurt soooo bad. I was crying for a long time. It put a damper on my running and I didn’t get my last long run in at the time it was scheduled.

I did get a 22 miler in before the gladiator incident, which went really well…slow, but well

I tried running 22 again last weekend, but my knees were pretty shot after 12. That worried me because if I would have tried to run 26 miles that day, I would have been miserable. Sooo, I decided to thumb my nose at tapering…yikes! I’m planning on doing 20 or 22 tomorrow morning. I feel like it is a good decision to avoid injury on race day. Only time will tell if my gut instinct is right or wrong.

Roadbunner is running her marathon that we’ve been training together for this weekend! Good luck chica!

Hope you all are well!