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Seven weeks ago I began training for the 1st Annual TeamRaymond Basement Marathon.

The first day I ran, back on February 21st, I kept a pace of five miles per hour. I couldn’t sustain that pace the entire three miles and so I had to walk about one-third of the distance. Tonight (yeah, tonight…I didn’t start until 10:45pm) I ran three miles - the entire three miles - at six miles per hour. And without much effort. That’s what…a twenty percent increase in speed over a seven week period?

I feel pretty good about that.

May 31st is seven weeks away. If I can raise my speed another twenty percent then I’ll be running at over seven miles per hour as my base speed. And if I can sustain seven miles per hour over the length of a marathon then I’ll finish in three hours and change. About three hours and forty-three minutes, to be more accurate.

A sub-four hour marathon. I could live with that.

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Total miles run to date: 137 miles
Longest distance run to date: 12 miles
Upcoming distance: 13 miles. Ugh.