Countdown to Boston: Training Logs and Nutrition

Hallo, everyone. I finally figured out a way to share training logs on this blog, while preserving the formatting I did. Only trouble is that I can't get them big enough this way. Sigh. Here's at least a glimpse of tomorrow's schedule while I work out the kinks. :) You *can* click on the images to make them larger if you're really interested.

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I'm also going to see if I can tackle a pre-Disney Marathon diet detox of sorts. I'm tired of being so addicted to food and so am going to try to pull myself off all the crap for the next 10 weeks to see if I can sort of get out of the habit of eating a) stuff that doesn't make me a better runner and b) stuff that doesn't do my health or the health of the planet any good.

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You'd be proud of me: I'm even increasing the number of calories I eat a day (up from the minimum of 1200 to lose weight to 1391) so I can make sure I'm getting a good amount of protein in to support my training. Baby steps. :)

In the meantime, our girl Kara didn't compete in today's New York City Marathon because she's taking time off to plan a family, but the race was still really fun to watch this morning. Here's a pic of the female winner, Ethiopia's Derartu Tulu, crossing the finish line with a time of 2:28:52. Amazing. Still, Kara's 3rd place finish in the same race in 2008 was better: 2:25:53. The race was slower this year.