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As I enter the last two weeks of training before the marathon, I am committed to making every run count. I want to maintain the intensity of my runs and workouts even while reducing my mileage and training load.

That said, today's workout was no exception.

I ran a total of 4.5 miles today, including 6x400 intervals.

2 Miles easy warmup at 10:32 pace
Intervals were: 1:59, 2:03, 1:55, 1:59, 2:02, 1:58. Rest intervals, which I walked, were 2:00. Cooldown was a little less than .5 miles.

McMillan's training calculator indicates I should be doing 400s between 2:03 and 2:10 which is based on my MORE HALF MARATHON time, but I think my Half would actually be faster now and I'm quite satisfied with my splits. In fact, my first and last 400 are almost the same time, so my consistency bears out my training.

Later this afternoon, I hit the gym for strength training -- upper body and core. Bunch of bicep curls, bunch of shoulder presses on the Bosu, bunch of pushups, some tricep torture, whole lot of bent over rows, rebounder w/ 4 lb ball, stretching. I'm sure there was more but I was talking about Sunday's Pig the whole time and I can't remember. Marathon Brain.

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I just got done watching American Idol. What a disappointment. I like the BeeGees, but really, who else can sing their songs like they do? And will somebody please confiscate the Crayon box from Paula? Her eye makeup was positively distracting