Big week

This week is our biggest training week before the BIG RACE...we are scheduled to run 40 miles this week!!!  Tonight we are kicking it off with a 10 miler, then we have two 5 milers, and this weekend a 20- yikes!  I think we're ready (we better be, our race is only 3 weeks away) but it's still a little intimidating to think of running that far all at once.   We'll have our pockets full of GU, our feet covered in band-aids, water bottles around our waists, and our skin slathered in sunscreen!  The 20 mile run is the longest run we'll do before the marathon, and after this week the milage starts to decrease in preparation for the race.   I think it will be a relief to us (and our patient husbands) to have the milage (and time requirement) start to decrease.  

Here's some pics of Tasha and I peer pressuring Debbi (my Aunt) and Janie (running buddy/experienced marathoner) to run with us in Palisade this last weekend.    Where is our 3rd partner in crime you ask?  She happens to be the only one smart enough to realize how foolish it is to pay to run (I think she has started listening to Matt!).  Maybe some of her wisdom will rub off on us.  Until we start winning the big bucks like Debbi in these races that is...

Aunt Debbi with her big winnings - she took 3rd in the 10k!