completed 29 km today along the Lakeshore...feeling slightly out of it right now and currently lying in bed watching the first season of Ugly Betty..also wondering how on earth am I going to manage to run 13 km more than that....feeling also apprehensive about the up-coming travel plans. Hoping it won't affect the running that much and at the moment am just grateful for the fact that I leave on Tuesday morning and not tomorrow morning. Could not possibly pack right now.

Why am I doing this?

The title of this entry isn't referring to why am I trying to attempt to run a full marathon, but really is more trying to answer the question of why I am keeping this blog. I just finished watching a video of Mena Trott explaining why she and others blog. Why do we really blog when we know that no one is even reading this?

The most simple answer is that I am a bit of a narcissist, but the more complex answer is that I personally really want to document this experience- the highs and lows of training for a marathon. I want to be able to look back on this time of a my life and see how I was feeling at any given point. To be able to document this experience is a powerful and intimate thing. In years to come when I have a family of my own or my children's children have a family of their own I want them to be able to see what I did...ok, wait- maybe I am a narcissist?

Running in Zilker Park, Austin

If you ever find yourself in Austin, Texas definitely check out Zilker Park for its great running trails. Beautiful routes, great water fountains, and even a couple of showers to wet your head if you are too hot! Fantastic! Did my 10km tempo run there (although not too sure if it was really tempo...)

Even a statue of Stevie Ray Vaughn to check out along the way...

Hotel Running

Training for this marathon will not only involve me doing a lot of running distance-wise, but will also involve me doing a lot of running in hotel gyms. Had my first hotel treadmill experience--considered running outside, but is super humid here in San Antonio and have no clue where to run, so just decided to bite the bullet and run in the hotel gym (Holiday Inn Riverwalk in San Antonio= not the best gym)....But I managed to do the 6m I was supposed to do tonight and also managed to calculate what 6kms is in miles...well, had some help with that...otherwise known as conversion calculator.