I am less than three weeks away from my next marathon. I am equal parts excited and anxious! I feel like I have been training forever, but changing it up with swimming, biking and strength training has helped ease the monotony. I have started training with a personal trainer only a little over a month ago, but it sure has helped. It does make me anxious though that I am not running quite enough. I know I do, but since when is anxiety rational??? I know I can finish, the question is how long it will take. I am aiming for 4:30, but it will all come out on the race day. I was waiting for my trainer to send me a new training program, so I ‘cheated’ on the regular plan with a run. I already did my bike intervals in the morning and core workout at lunch. I was supposed to swim, but I hurt my shoulder the other day (more on merits of good form when exercising in near future…), so that was out. I love running! It felt like easy 6 miles, so I was surprised my pace was 9:04 min/mile. I was going for my planned marathon pace of 10 min/mile. I know Garmin was telling me I was going way faster, but it felt awesome! Sunny, cool afternoon, no wind, no crazy crowds… How could I not? Tomorrow, it will be back to regular plan (hopefully, I will remember to run according to schedule and only according to schedule…).