Week 7 Training Update

This was a another productive week for my marathon training; I ran 8 miles on Saturday with my 10 year old grandson caddying the water bottles on a bike trail; he rode out and dropped off a bottle of water at each mile marker. It was fun since he was with me on my very first day of training and saw I could barely run 1/2 mile. When we were done this time he said "grandpa you ran far" - that put a smile on my face.

Another item that keeps me going while running is the IPOD shuffle. I've tried to load some running related tunes like "The Long and Winding road" , "Running on Empty", "You Keep me Running", "On the Road Again"; during my last mile the Beatles tune "I'm a loser" came on - Maybe I'll replace that one with Queen's "We are the champions".

This coming Saturday July 14th at 6am I'll be running an 11 mile run with our Team and Training group. Later that day I'll be driving 6 hours down to Tennessee for a weeks vacation - lots of golf........

This week is another 22 miles of training with an 11 mile run on Saturday. Two weeks from now will be another big test - 13 miles. I've completed about 80 training miles so far. I think by the time the actual race comes about I will have run close to 300 miles.

I'm looking forward to a little R&R down in Tennessee next week and plan to lose allot of golf balls while I'm at it.

Cheers
Ray Baumann
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