Thanks! I think I'll go a little faster on race day too. I lost at least 5 minutes to standing at intersections waiting for lights to change. And I'm sure adrenaline will carry me part of the way too. I'm hoping for a 2:15 finish, but truthfully I'll feel a huge sense of accomplishment regardless. Sometimes when I'm out there, I can hardly believe that I'm the same person for whom less than a year ago, 30 seconds of running was enough to get my heart rate up and a minute of running felt like a long time.

I have some big goals for 2010 and will start working with a coach on 11/1. One of the things I want to spend more time on is speedwork (aka less-slow-work??).

I always do my long runs mid-week. Actually, I almost never run on the weekends at all. Despite how it might appear, I'm essentially a lazy slacker at heart. Seriously. If I don't get my workouts done the very first thing in the morning, they pretty much don't get done. At the end of a work day, I simply don't have the energy or motivation to work out. Weekends are for cycling, being lazy, trying to catch up on the never ending mound of dirty laundry....