Wow, it's been a while since I've updated. Nice to see all 3 of you again.

Since the 20-miler, I've been taking it pretty light on the running front. I left for Albuquerque later that week, so I missed the training run. While in Albuquerque, I tried to run a bit. "Tried" being the operative word. Because of the extreme altitude difference (Albuquerque's altitude is 5,326 feet, San Francisco's is 128 feet), I made it literally about 10 minutes before running out of breath. It was very very sad. I made myself feel better by gorging myself and not running for the rest of break.

Two days after I got back, we had a short 8-miler in Berkeley. I had yet to do any runs at that training site, so I was interested to see how it was. Well, it was freezing. It rained the entire time and was quite windy as well. I couldn't feel my fingers for the first few miles. My group made up for it by running really fast. We ended up being the second group to finish, about 5 minutes ahead of our pace. Oops.

This week we have a 23-mile training run, so I've been taking it easy and doing my maintainence runs on the treadmill at work. I've sort of resigned myself to the fact that my knee pain may just be something I have to deal with. Although it hasn't gotten worse, it hasn't really gotten better either, and I do still have pain when I run. I'm confident, though, that I'll be able to run the marathon, and hopefully I'll be able to do more after this one.