Date Workout Miles Avg Pace Monday, 8/11 Regular Run 6 9:33 Tuesday, 8/12 Regular Run 9 9:47 Wednesday, 8/13 Rest 0 -- Thursday, 8/14 Regular Run 6 9:37 Friday, 8/15 Rest 0 -- Saturday, 8/16 Long Run 16 9:45 Sunday, 8/17 Yoga in the Park 0 -- Total Weekly Mileage: 37 My training runs are feeling better in some respects--endurance, mind set, time (sometimes)--but in another respect, I'm concerned about my ability to fully train for this marathon. My left foot, the one with bursitis, has been hurting again. It hasn't gotten so bad that I feel I can't run through it, and in fact the pain isn't the worst while I'm running--it's the days after when I'm just walking around that I feel the most pain. I just want to walk in giant, protective marshmallow shoes (perhaps I should try the Hoka One One s). But the underlying issue would still be there. So what do I do? I've decided to take a bit of a break this week to see how much better I can ...

Last week was basically an anticipatory build-up to my second 20-miler, which I initially wasn't planning to do, as that meant I'd end up with three total before the marathon. But I was feeling good enough to do it, and in a way I think I was still riding the success of the first one . Also last week, I got two more CrossBoot classes in--one was a morning holiday session (for Labor Day), which are notoriously brutal sessions, and the other was my normal Wednesday night class. I feel really good when I can get two classes in per week; although, in the immediate days following, my legs don't feel great when I run, but I think in the long run (no pun intended), I'm getting stronger and even a bit faster. I wasn't as good about doing morning runs last week, and in fact, I fell two miles short of my weekly mileage because my Tuesday run, which I switched with my Thursday run, was a painful one (and should have been six miles). For pretty much the first time this t...