Marathon training – hot as (bleep)!  19 weeks to race day!

Over the course of my marathon training, I’ll be providing many updates.  Sometimes, they’ll be short weekly posts and others may be longer updates of several weeks.  The key is that I’ll share the space I am in at each point in this journey towards running 26.2. Over this past week, that space went a bit back and forth.

Week two of marathon training had a different feeling than week one.  While the start of training felt like the marathon was getting close with only 20 weeks to go, my mindset shifted in week two to the realization that I still had 19 more weeks of this massive commitment remaining.  Right now, while the marathon is the destination, my immediate goal is to give the training program everything I’ve got.  This week, it set in how daunting that is – especially as New York was hit with insane heat.  All I can say is that, for a couple days, it was really, really, hot.  It reminded me of Eddie Vedder’s speech at this Pearl Jam concert I went to at Fenway Park in 2018.  I’ll let Ed take care of the explicit language that better describes the heat . . .