Twenty

This weekend I spent over 20 hours sitting in a van travelling from Utah back to St. Louis.  I had a wonderful week rafting and camping on the San Juan River with Jim, Jen and John.  It is great to be away from televisions, computers and telephone and connect with nature.  Up until this time I was pretty good and sticking to the marathon training plan.  I missed four work outs while I was away.  Today the schedule had a 20 miler.  After not running and sitting so long I wasn't sure how I would do.  When I trained for my last marathon in 2011 the 20 mile training runs seemed endless.  With Kathy by my side they are fun.  Bonus - I got lots of puppy love when I picked up Kathy.  I love her dogs.  At the end of the run Kathy had Gatorade for us.  It was exactly what I needed. Only 7 weeks until race day.  It will be here before we know it.