The Lehigh Valley Hospital Marathon starts in less than 24 hours now, and i’m making final preparations before heading off to Allentown. There’s no hurry to get there since there isn’t an expo, nor is there a pre-race dinner or anything, so we just want to get down, get our packet and get setup for the morning.

The marathon people posted a rain/shine notice on their website on Friday, reminding runners that the regardless of the weather, we’ll do the race. It may be delayed, or something like that, but will go on. According to the latest weather report, all the rain will be gone overnight tonight, so I don’t think there is much to worry about … again as I’ve written all week, i’m worried more about it being soggy on the course since a lot of the course is on trails….

I decided to build my marathon pace band for a 3:40 finish instead of the 3:35 that I originally planned to run. I think that I have enough opportunity during the season to get to the 3:35 and hopefully the 3:30 mark. I do have to get my marathon legs back, which will happen tomorrow, then we’ll go from there. I’m confident that I can do a 3:40, or come quite close to it, again, depending on the conditions and the weather….

I’m not sure if i’ll post again tonight or not, generally I try to relax the night before after getting a small tidbit to eat, and may not even pull out the computer, but it’ll depend on how I feel…

Hopefully tomorrow at this time i’ll be celebrating another good race….