Less than 1 week to go!

Would you believe it, this time next week I will (hopefully) be recovering from a very large hangover!

Yes, in less than 1 week, in fact, in almost exactly 6 days time, I should be finishing the New York Marathon, woo hoo.  The end of 4 months of training, hours of endless running and no more talking to myself.

For the rest of the week the training runs are really gentle, and even the 10k I had to do yesterday was "easy pace", and supposedly in "race" gear, firstly there is the use of that word again, "race", any one who has seen me run will know that I am not racing anyone next week.  But the question of "race" gear did get me thinking.  The weather forecast for New York has changed quite a bit in the last few days, firstly the temprature was in the mid 70's last week, which would not be fun, but is expected to be around the 15c mark next week, which will be nice. However, it might rain, now I don't mind running in the rain, it can be quite refreshing, but I've not run for 4-5 hours in the rain, actually I've yet to run for 4-5 hours at all, but any way I'm not sure what to wear if it is going to poor down for the whole thing, perhaps that divers suit would have been a good idea after all!!

Any way, for those interested, yes I am really nervous now, it has come round so quickly, and all the people who have asked me "so when is this run thing then, 3-4 weeks away?" haven't helped at all this weekend.  No it isn't 3-4 weeks away, and part of me wishes it was, but the other part is like, no come on, lets get it over with now, you can do it, and at the worst it is just going to be the worst 5 hours or so of your life, but it is only 5 hours, and then I can sit down and enjoy a beer or 3, how fantastic is that hangover going to feel.