Day 364

Closing out week three and starting up week four in my marathon training, I'm feeling pretty awesome. My energy has continued to stay up and I'm becoming something of a morning person now that I'm sleeping well. Last week I finally hit a goal that I've had for a while: getting four miles into an hour! That's an especially cool victory for me because my ankle was slightly out of place that day (I pushed myself too hard the day before and then slept in a weird angle). I felt like I was going to much slower because of my ankle, but at the end of the walk I discovered that we'd actually gone a bit faster than usual! I think the regular warm-ups are contributing to that a lot. Once my muscles are used to the idea that it's time to do something, they're pretty eager to cooperate.

Over the past three weeks I've been incredibly blessed to have my training partner with me. She has knowledge where I lack it, is compassionate and ready to work with me while also pushing me to improve, and she has become a dear friend of mine in this short time. Sometimes God just brings the right people into your life and she has definitely stepped up to fill in a gap in my life.

Other than that it's been a somewhat uneventful week. Training went well, I reached a new goal, and that's awesome!

This week, I'm going to be focusing more on going as far as possible in the same amount of time. I'm excited to see how far and how fast I can go before I start jogging.