Cool

Cool weather definitely helps! Good solid run this morning from home with no problems. I have been wearing my ipod for the past couple of runs and I know it helps. We are not allowed to wear anything out on group training, and for good reason....you have to hear the bikers coming up behind you yellling: "Passing on your left!"

This weekend will be 10 recovery miles and then a nervous week of preparing for 26 miles next Saturday!

Read about Khalid Kannouchi below:

As told by John Beach:


"As a promising young runner during the early 1990s, Khalid Khannouchi of Morocco asked the track federation of his home country for assistance with training expenses. When the federation refused assistance, Khannouchi traveled to the United States in 1993, found a job in Brooklyn washing dishes, took up residence with three friends in an apartment and then began serious training. Khannouchi married American Sandra Inoa (a runner he met at a 5k race in Hartford, Conn.) in September 1996 and applied for his green card two months later. He was sworn in as a U.S. citizen on May 2, 2000.

Khannouchi ran very well in smaller road races in the U.S. before running the fastest debut marathon in history to win the 1997 Chicago Marathon. Two years later, Khannouchi ran the fastest time ever in the marathon at Chicago on October 24, 1999. And three years after that, he again ran the fastest time in the world in the London Marathon in April 2002. 2002: Set World record by winning the London Marathon in a time of 2:05:38. Amazing! 2000: Set American record by winning the LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon in 2:07:01 on October 11, his first marathon as a U.S. citizen...3rd at London Marathon in 2:08:36...U.S. citizen on May 2...ranked #3 in world (#1 U.S.).

1999: Won the LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon in world record time of 2:05:42.
1998: Won the LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon in 2:07:19.
1997: Won the LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon in 2:07:10, the fastest marathon debut in history."

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Total Training Weeks: 19.5
Total Training Miles: 313