Blog Conclusion
Well, now that the season is over it's time to decide what is next. I have decided to try to get a little speed back into my legs and train for the California International Marathon in December. I have run this marathon several times and although it is not my favorite course, it is a good one. Getting speed back in my legs is proving difficult. I have not trained with a true marathon schedule in about 1 1/2 years when I trained for Boston 2006. I seem to be stuck in a rut of one speed only on the run so I'm trying to break out of that with some tempo and faster than race pace runs. We will see how it goes.

I have also decided to continue with Ironteam as a mentor and will train to complete Ironman Canada next year. Skip and I travelled to Canada at the end of August to support my teammates that competed there and to sign up for 2008. The only way to get into Ironman Canada is to sign up in person the day after the event. (TNT also gets registration slots but they prefer us to get our own if we can so more people can join the team).

Just before we went to Canada Skip told me that he wanted to join the team too!!! He loves the swimming and biking but is not too fond of the running part so he is planning on a swim/bike/walk Ironman. He has already started doing some short runs however so I'm sure he will do a run/walk combo for the marathon. That is what most of us mortal Ironmen and women do anyway!

So, we will start a new blog for the 2008 season with info on how we are both doing.