Wow. Well, we are training for the SLC marathon, as many of you know, and we have been faithfully following the training schedule. This week, on Saturday, we hit the summit of our training schedule- a 20-mile run. We have never run that far together, and we were (to be honest) doubtful about how we would do. But we decided to do our best and try. So we woke up yesterday morning and got going. We ran 10 miles out, and that way we obviously have to run the second 10 miles in order to get back. We downloaded the same playlist off of iTunes on our iPhones and started the songs at the same time so we would hear the same songs at the same points along the way. Surprisingly, we did well. I think the little energy gel packs we have started to use on our longer distances helped a lot. At any rate, this is a picture of us- AFTER we finished! We look happy because we did it. We have read and heard many people say that if you an do 20, you are good to go for the marathon, so we are building our confidence. We still have 4 more weeks of training to go and approximately 152 more miles to run before we attempt the big race, but we are hopeful that all will go well. Yay us!*Jonas is training for the half marathon! He is pretty awesome!
6 comments:
wow Dresden. You guys are awesome. Can't wait to hear the report from the big race.
Wow! You guys are amazing, congratulations!
I did six miles today, and I was only speed walking/jogging. No marathon for me :)
Go you guys!!! Hey we might (hopefully) see you guys there! Ben's running the SLC half. We'll definitely be looking for you guys! Keep it up! You guys are awesome!
Wow! How fun to be able to train for the marathon together. You guys will do great.
This is so wonderful! What togetherness! Keep running.
That's amazing! You guys are so cool. We'll be cheering you on...you just won't be able to hear us because you live too far away!
You'll do great!
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