Chile Pepper--sorry to hear!

Colby--this is my first marathon and I have a really big goal of doing it in 4:30. I have 16 weeks to go...so hopefully time to build to that consistent speed (10:18 AVERAGE PACE). I know I am being agreessive and very optimistic. But I feel like if I don't try it I won't know.

I was wondering on my run the other day...do I include "walk" breaks in training on my LSD days? Realistically will I walk during the real thing? If I "walk" then I need to increase running pace. If I do walks in training...then I need to expect not to bealbe to run the entire 26.2. So I am still thinking and working that out. Any thoughts.

Tonight is 6 miles of "hillls" and only hills I have are overpasseses so it equals hill repeats. At least it is in the mild 70's and 60's by evening/darkness now.

K