Tomorrow marks the beginning of a serious man workout to get ready for the chi town marathon....a 25 kilometer tempo run on Lake Mary Rd. Im fairly nervous about this and excited at the same time. Everyone has their benchmark workouts and tomorrows Lake Mary workout seems to be the workout that indicates how prepared you are for the 42 kilometer distance. The McMillan Group will be out on Lake Mary a few more times but the ball starts rolling tomorrow. Fasil did his 25k tempo on Lake Mary last weekend since he is competing in the US 10 mile championships and wanted an extra week to freshen up. He set the bar and we will see where I fall with that in mind. 

This week was solid with a short speed session on Monday just to keep the legs ticking over and my first legitimate steady state run at Buffalo park on Wednesday. We (nick and fasil) did 10 miles around a 2 mile soft surface loop keeping it in control the entire time. 

The boys here forced me to start watching "jersey shore". Its a terrible show and the jury is still out. I did have a few laughs last week at it however. Its so bad, I had to watch it. The characters are beyond embarrassing and I wonder if thats how much of the jersey shore early 20s crowd behaves. 

I dont have too many years left in me and not many more marathons. If Im going to run fast for 26.2 miles it needs to happen now not tomorrow....