Today I’m training my replacement at work, which is cool (but at the same time kind of strange) because it’s Ren’s cousin Shelley’s husband Jimmy. I’m glad I don’t have to train a complete stranger. Usually, training someone is hellish (I’m a horrible teacher, it’s my fault) but this is not bad at all.

Ran yesterday in the park. Only ran 1.5 miles. But ran the whole time, and pretty fast for me, too. 18 minutes. 12 minute/miles. In this heat, it’s probably like 8 minute miles in the cold. Or so I’ll tell myself. Going to go again this afternoon. Hopefully I’ll be able to run a little further today. I don’t think I was ideally hydrated yesterday, so this afternoon I’m going to drink lots more water and see if that helps.

Strange thing: I still haven’t deleted the splits from the marathon from my running watch. I don’t want to! I know I have them recorded, but when I look at them on my watch, it’s like being at the race all over again. Silly. But by not erasing them, I can’t really use my watch while running. Oh well. I’m just not ready yet!