9 days left!

Its scary, especially since now I can check out the M-day's weather forecast under the 'ten-day forecast'. High 59*,low54*, winds. Well, they havent put up the wind velocity yet for those days but today it is 16-20mph till noon, which can affect our effort. Because we havent practised in windy conditions.

Not that it matters, because we did do atleast 2 hills each LSD , and I am still getting nervous about the big bad hills in SF. Whose great idea was it to do this particular marathon??

Anyway, tapering is not going too well. I stopped working out entirely these last 2 weeks and then realised, taper or not, I have to move atleast 35-45 min a day. So went for a r/w yesterday, 15minmile but was just shuffling along. I need company some days more than others and GB was being lazy yest AM. Today we will try and fit in a session in the PM.

Reading up a lot on tapering and how to run the actual marathon. Its all in the mind. When I look at the course map and tell myself-hey, this is easy, I have done those hills before, I can do this- I feel better. Then I go and read all those blogs of people who say they were slow and it was hard for them and they were puking and hurting , but actually they finish in 4-5 hours, thats when the self-doubt comes back jumping in. I just want to finish within 6.50hours. thats all. I have no other goals. Just to complete. Just not to have to be swept into a cleaning up van. That should be a doable goal.