T-Minus 7 Weeks and Counting

We continue to roll quickly towards the Big Sur marathon and yesterday we began the final build in our training. Between now and the end of April, we will continue to increase our training run times to about 3.5 hours and we'll try to add as many hills as possible to get our bodies used to the shock of suffering the inclines and descents when they're tired.

With that in mind, we went for a 2:22, 22 km (13.5-ish miles) jaunt yesterday with three major climbs in it. The route and profile are below:



It turned out to be a great run. Amy pushed hard through the climbs and ran up them like a champion, only running out of steam at the very end of the last one (sounds like perfect timing to me!). As a reward, we decided to go back to Vera's for those wonderful burgers that we highlighted a few weeks ago! The remainder of Sunday was spent with us lying on the couch feeling exhausted and each of us suffering through 15 minutes of agony in the ice bath.