1 week to go

Now begins the final countdown.
It's been a crazy week with all the traveling but I was able to get a 16 miler on the provo river parkway. It's kind of fitting to do my last marathon training "long run" on the same trail that I started running consistently on over three years ago. The run felt really good and for the first time in a few weeks I'm looking forward to this race. I finished the run feeling really good and was tempted to keep going but decided not to push it. The knee was feeling really good and I wanted to keep it that way. I didn't have the usual 14 mile meltdown so all in all it was really encouraging.
Things should be interesting, I plan on taking it pretty conservatively so that I'll have a better chance of finishing without too much pain. I would still be stoked for anything under 4 hours, but under 4:30 will be pretty awesome as well.
See you in St. George!