I’ve finally put the period at the end of the saga i’ve been dealing with in my personal life and can once again focus on running. The Steamtown Marathon is this weekend, and the weather looks like its going to be beautiful for the race .. seems the start temperature will be around 45-50, with an afternoon temperature of around 70. In my opinion, that means that a majority of the race should be in the 50’s .. which is perfect in my opinion for a race, I just have to get my mind back into it.

As I wrote previously, I expect to just ‘finish’ this race since my mind has been elsewhere in the past few weeks since the Lehigh Valley Hospital Marathon a month ago. If I run it under 4 hours, i’ll be lucky, I really just want to survive. I realized that my weight is up because I have been eating like crap, but believe it or not, i’ve kept up with my runs so I may not be that bad off, we’ll just have to see.

We do have the marine corps marathon coming up in 2 weeks now, which maybe I can rebound for that one after my crappy performance this weekend. I guess i’m not being too hopeful for the weekend, eh?

So as the marathon season is winding down, I may or may not run a November marathon, it just depends on how well I think I can train with the new job and everything… my schedule is going to be a mess..

I’ll probably write tomorrow as I try to get psyched up for the marathon, i think i’m in the right frame of mind finally, so its time to try and get excited!