Had the last long training run for the season. Starting tomorrow, it’ll just be light runs for the week. The leg will hold up I think. It’s mainly a confidence thing with it right now. I bought an IT band wrap which appears to help a little and I’m going to use it during the marathon.

The game plan for the marathon is a 9/1 run/walk ratio. It makes the math a lot easier to do during the latter stages of the marathon. I start walking every ninth minute and I start running every tenth minute. For the first 15 miles, I want to do a 11:20 - 12:00 mile pace. That’s about 30 second slower pace than I can run over a half marathon. We’ll see how I feel at 15, 18, 20, 21, 23 miles before I’ll push it during the race.  I’m also going to eat a gu at regular intervals, starting at about 49 minutes and one every 30 minutes after that.