Saturday, February 23rd

Today was the beginning of the long training sessions. I had to walk for 100 minutes today. Because I don't walk a 12 minute or less mile - I had to start at 7:30 a.m. at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. It was a beautiful day and the walk down Eastern Avenue along Lake Union to the Burt Gillman Trail toward Gas Works Parks was enjoyable. I did find my left lower hip area hurting near the end of the walk. I would not want to have this hurt for 26 miles. Fortunately we had a clinic after the walk with a physical therapist. He said maybe part of it is arthritis. He also said it might be that my orthotics are not completely right. So I'll set up a consultation to see if I can get this corrected. At the end of the walk Cindy and I figured we did a 15.1 minute mile average; that was exciting news! Anything below a 17 minute mile is good as it means we should be able to do the marathon in June in the allotted time. The other exciting thing was that I received the #3 best fund raising dollar amount recognition for the week. Thanks to those who donated this past week. On to Week 4.