I haven't been posting because I've been running

I have been keeping up with the thread regularly, though. I find that it really motivates me.

I finished the hardest week of my marathon training a week ago, and I'm well into the taper now. I wish I felt a little better, though. I was doing fine up until the past couple of weeks, but my body is just plumb worn out right now! My crappy IT band and my joints are just cranky. I got a massage hoping it would help. Definitely did not. I am hoping that the week and a half of taper I have left combined with lots of stretching and maybe some cross training on the bike will help. If not, I'm pretty sure that I can still finish as long as I run a slower pace and walk if I need to. This is my first marathon, so I am trying not to worry about pace in any case.

Anyways, I still can't believe that I'm going to run a marathon in 10 days. I'm looking forward to scratching this one off the bucket list.