8 weeks to go.

• This is the most total miles I've ran in one week so far. 24 miles for the week. It was actually a pretty tough week running. Because of my long run last Sunday and my travel schedule I ended up running 4 out of 5 days and then took Friday and Saturday off. My 'rest day' ended up being 18 holes of golf that I walked and Saturday hiking up dunes and chasing my kids around the beach at Pacific City.
• I had a 12 mile run planned this morning where I would just add run one more bridge further, this case the Morrison, to my run from last week. So apparently the bridge pedal was this morning so I had to compete with the above picture on my run this week. Actually it wasn't that bad. The only couple of times it got inconvenient. Crossing the Sellwood bridge a lot of the bikers stopped to take pictures, so they stopped up on the sidewalk. I had to jump down off the sidewalk and run on the bridge with the bikers. I got a surprise look from the guy I was running next to on his bike. Then the other time was trying to get on the Morrison bridge, Natio was packed with every biker in Portland for 5 blocks. I ended up just cutting through the crowd of bikes. 
• In the end the run was tough and a bit slower than my 11 miles last week. I'm thinking about doing the Sunset Half next Saturday as a training run and 'race' practice for the marathon.