Officially signed up for the Big Sur International Marathon. Now I have about 15 weeks to train. Ran a bit November of last year but then conferences, finals, papers, and the holiday got in the way. But now I need to train for real. Like fer rils man, fer rils.

Lesson of the day: just run. Deciding to run without a watch was one of the better life choices I've made recently, thanks to advice from Al who just ran a marathon not too long ago. I also learned that my arithmetic is shit now. Was doing powers of 2's slowly and my last accurate doubling was 8,388,608 and then I somehow got off and arrived at 44 million something or other before I realized that I was way off. How did I ever even get to 22 million? Oh, also, run slowly. 10 min. per mile is a pretty shitty pace but 1) My legs don't break on me 2) I feel fine through the run and 3) 1 and 2 allows me to continue to push up the mileage.

Accelerated schedule calls for 4 miles tomorrow, 3 miles Thursday, and I'm deciding a 6-7 mile run on Saturday. I remember when we wouldn't run any more than 5 miles or so on a "long day" in cross country in high school and that was halfway into the season. Hope I can do 6 now with 3 days of training.