Don't Stop Believing

Less than 48 hours to go, and I'll admit, I'm more than nervous. I don't think I'd be half as nervous as I am if the back of my knee wasn't bothering me...I feels like I've pulled something, but I'm not sure. Other than that, the shin splints have gone away (for the time being) and I'm icing the back of my knee. I did my last training run this morning, and next time I hit the pavement it will be for real. I'm sure that I'll do fine, I've been training since November, and I've been faithful to the program. My longest run was 12 miles, but I'm sure pure adrenaline and the crowd will carry me the last 1.1 miles. I'm pumped/nervous/scared/excited for this. It's going to be epic. Check out Boston's Run to Remember site for more details (and course route) if you want to come out and cheer me on. After party at the Barking Crab to follow! Big thanks to all you readers out there for supporting me on this - it's been pretty awesome!

Yesterday I had a quasi FML moment at the gym...it was a little too hot to run outside, so I wussed out (Back story: The night before I watched the pilot of Glee and it was pretty good, if a little uneven, but the two big musical numbers, Rehab and Don't Stop Believing, were good...so good, in fact, I was a huge nerd and downloaded them from itunes and put them onto my shuffle. Back to the gym and FML). I was in the middle of my run, totally in the zone, and was somewhat oblivious to where I was. Around the Horn was on a commercial break, so I switched over to the shuffle. Since I had to keep clicking to find the song, I was concentrating on that, again, oblivious to my surroundings. I finally find the song I was looking for (the Glee cover of "Don't Stop Believing") and settle back in. About a minute later, I realized I had just blurted out "sitting in a smoky room, the smell of wine and cheap perfume!" at an audible level complete with appropriate inflections...the people on either side of me definitely noticed and looked at me funny. I was mortified. I switched back to Around the Horn and ran with my head down for about 10 minutes...

You can expect a full update Sunday or Monday, but I will definitely post my finish time as soon as I can on Sunday. It's go time....excellence is a choice!