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Of course, before we get to the 100 miles before we even get to 50 miles, we have a marathon coming up, and that's just just 26.2 miles.

Now I'm running the L A marathon this weekend.

It's my first time doing it.

And I really only signed out out.

I really only signed up out of foam.

Oh, yeah, I would have a huge fear of missing out if I did not sign up for the L A marathon when I live here and it's my first year living here, and I just really wanted to check it out.

That being said, I am just coming off of my down season, my off season in between training for races.

So I'm really not up to the mileage that I typically would hope to be at for a marathon.

You know, ultra runners are crazy, so I'm just gonna say tech with it.

I'm gonna run it anyways, so we'll see.

I I've been faster on my runs than I have in the past, so I have the goal in the back of my mind to PR for this marathon.

I would love to set a new personal record, but I'm also nervous because I haven't trained the way of it.

I would normally hope, but, you know, maybe this is a good chance to just be like balls out go is fastest possible.

Maybe that's my strategy, but it's not.

My strategy is to take it slow for the beginning.

Take it slower than I think I need to.

And that's probably something you've heard a lot of people say, But what I've heard about the L A marathon specifically is that it is very hot and that although they're just kind of small rolling hills throughout the race, they add up and they get to you and that by about mile 17 you will be wiped out for no reason, like you won't understand why here wiped out because the race course doesn't seem that difficult until you get there.

But you are exposed to the entire time and you have to conserve your energy.

So I plan on drinking lots of water I also bought these salt pills, and I'm going to take a salt pill every hour so that I can combat the dehydration and the electrolytes that I'm going to be losing my replacing them with the salt pills and hopefully that will prevent me from getting cramps.

That will help me to keep going and stop me from getting too tired and dehydrated.

And then I'm going to take the hills a little bit slower than I normally might, because I've been doing a lot of Hill training lately, so I feel like I can probably charge up and down them.

But I'm gonna let my body have arrested the star.

I know that it's going to be quite the race for pounding pavement and for achey joints, So I'm going to take some Advil with me.

I know there's a split thought of Think there's a split groups of thought on the whole taking Advil while you run.

But you know there's not really anything you can do to train for your your ankles giving sore because of pounding the pavement for four hours.

So I'm just gonna take a little Advil with me, you know, if I take two Advil like a month for my long runs.

I don't think that that is all that bad.

So it's really whatever you gotta do to get across the finish line, right?

I'm going to experiment with eating whole foods.

I'm not doing goo.

Um, I might make.

Wow.

Gee, I haven't even thought about do.

I might make my own goo for the race, but if not, I'll be eating things like dates.

Nuts?

Um, yeah.

No more Stroup waffles for me because of the whole vegan and trying to whole foods.

So I'll let you know afterwards.

What I found ended up working for me.

But that's the plan.

See you on the course.