This week I did just over 30 miles, with a couple of good quality runs. I got a lot of the miles over in the early part of the week and even had Sunday as a rest day! I wanted to run today, which would have been my sixth running day this week, but I decided to take it as a rest day and get some chores over with. It feels good to have worked myself back almost to where I was a week before I went to Europe. In some ways I don’t mind taking some time off from running and losing fitness as it gives me something to build up to.

I think I will try to plateau for a few weeks and not really add any miles, just build up a solid base. Perhaps in a month I’ll make a decision on a marathon – full or half. I would really like to do another full marathon, but I don’t know if it is worth the punishment and training I would want to go through. If I do it though, I for sure want to beat 4 hours, so I would want to be ready to do that. A half would be a lot better but I still would want to bust out the training. I think and under 2 hr. time would be awesome, so a solid nine minute pace throughout. I can that now for six plus miles, but it is tough. I do think I could work up to it.