Chicago

I haven’t been running much lately. When I have, my knees have hurt, and I’ve gotten discouraged. It sucks! I had such great hopes for this fall, but with every passing week, I feel like I am getting more and more behind.

Training for Chicago officially starts on Monday. Tomorrow I’ll go to FrontRunner and pick myself up a new pair of shoes (I’m surmising that has to do with my pain post-running), and get my head into the game. I just surfed to the chicago marathon site, and checked out the map of the course, and I felt a wee bit of excitement welling up. Spending over three hours on your feet, keeping yourself entertained, hydrated, safe and mentally “with it”. What a challenge, what fun!

Time to buckle down!