running double

This morning I decided that without a doubt, I am going to sign up for that 10k race in Lake Tahoe this Saturday.

There. The decision is made.

So I'd better get serious. I've only got a week!!

I'm concerned about my shoes. My right leg has been starting to hurt. I need to run a lot this week. I need my shoes to hold up. I think I'll go into the running store (where I bought them) and see if I need new insoles. Hopefully not.

I ran Westville to Pointed Rocks to American River. Usually I stop there at the bottom of my street, but today I kept going. I continued on around Otter Trail and then back home.

That was a pretty long route, but if I'm going to have any stamina up there at 6500 hundred feet- I have to push myself here at only 1500 hundred feet. Dang- I must be crazy. I don't know if I'm ready for the mental and physical a** whooping I'm probably going to endure, but what doesn't kill us only makes us stronger. I believe that. At least while I'm getting my butt kicked I'll have a nice view of the Tahoe Valley.
Yeah- that's thinking positive!