Everything is coming together

In 6 days, I am running the Beach to Beacon run in Maine.  Yay!  Maine!

Florida and I are not getting along so well right now.  It's too hot and humid (not surprising).  I got back Tuesday and did get out once for a 6-mile run.  Of course, it was more like a run/walk.  I survived it, but I certainly didn't enjoy it.

I also sat down tonight and did my marathon training plan.  It looks easy.  Maybe too easy.  Much easier than trying to do 6 half-marathons over 9 months, I can promise you that much.  Part of this is because it is a beginner's plan, whereas I had been doing intermediate plans for the half-marathons and the impending 10k.  Sure, there are long runs in the marathon plan, but only 4 that are over 12.  Yay!  And the other runs are relatively short, considering.  Yay!

The best part is that the training plan fits perfectly with when I need to be out of town for work, so I don't have to do crazy rearranging to get everything to fit.  This includes a weekend when I will be in Milwaukee for a conference.  It just happens to be a taper week (only 5M for the long run!  YAY!!!) and I am supposed to run a 10k that weekend.  By even more awesome coincidence, I found one.  It is the Colorama 10k that takes place at Lapham Peak.  Why is it called Colorama?  Because the leaves will have changed!

CHANGING LEAVES!!!!  YAY, YAY, YAY!!!!  Because we don't usually get so much of that here in Florida.

Yep, I'm excited.  As you can probably tell.  Even though I would still prefer being in the Melbourne winter.