And Today's Anxiety is:

Pace and Timing.

I'm not sure at all what kind of time to look for in finishing the marathon. ????

My "PR from a PL" ( ...that's Personal Record from a Past Life) was 3:45 in 1982!

I managed 4:45 in the Rocket City Marathon in 2004.

I did (a combo of walking and jogging) 6:30 for a marathon split in the Delano 12 Hour last March.

My recent long training runs have been done at about a 13 minute pace average. (I know I'm slow. My totem animal should be a sloth; I'm a ...slogger?)

Have done a handful of shorter races in recent months (5K, 10K, 15K) all at 9-10 minute paces. But don't really think I could do the entire marathon distance at that pace; especially since the Flying Monkey Marathon is a very hilly up and down course (but most of my long runs have also been hill training)

I guess I'd like to see a finish faster than the Delano race split; I've got 8 good solid months of training under my feet since then. And I'd like to be faster in the race than I am in training, but I just don't know how much the hills and the final miles will slow me down. hmm.. Finishing in ANY time will be satisfying . ..a 6 hour finish would be 13:45 mile pace. A 5:30 finish would be 12:35 miles. I'd be happy happy with something in that range. Anything faster than that would probably send me into bragging overload. ;)

http://www.marathonguide.com/fitnesscalcs/PaceBandCreator.cfm
http://www.pacetat.com/ ...personally, I think it would be a total hoot to get an actual pace tattoo. :)

4 miles this morning.

Book #70

70) Sawyer, Robert J. FLASHFORWARD Tor: 1999.

I've been enjoying the new television series, but didn't realize it was based on a science fiction novel. So, it was a nice surprise finding it in our stacks. And the show is enough of its own entity that I don't think I've spoiled anything by reading the book.