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Alfredo,

Hope you're healing well and you will be strong for your race this weekend.  That rooster pic is hilarious.

As for me, I have been flat out exhausted this week, very unusual for me.  I have lots of outside stress, so I took Wednesday and Thursday completely off of training and got lots of sleep.  Hopefully that's what my body needed me to do.  I'm going to go for a swim today and then bike and run over the weekend.

Hope everyone is doing well and enjoying the weekend!  I just finished my last 20 mile long run and felt good through most of it, so I'm looking forward to Chicago now in 2 weeks!

Ernesto and friends, quick question (which might be a really dumb one, but here it goes), I just found out there is a 1/2 Ironman triathlon in Guatemala on Oct 30th and I will be finishing the Chicago Marathon on Oct 9th.  This is going to be a neat one, although really tough, because it takes place in the northern jungles of Guatemala and it ends in front of the main temple of the Mayan City of Tikal.  Do you think I could recover from the Marathon and ramp up some biking in the 2-3 weeks in between to make it in decent shape?

Ernesto, the need for a longer recovery after the full Mary makes sense, especially since it's my first one and I'm not feeling as hot right now after today's 20 Mi. long run.  That's why its so good to have you as a Mentor!  How is your training going and are you back on your bike after your recent Century ride attempt? Saludos!

Not much action trainingwise here this weekend, but I joined a running club in Southport, 45 min bike ride from home. So it will be bike-run-bike on Sunday now. Oh, the annual fee is $5.- ! Bargain.

The main reason for that was to be able to put a team together for my next challenge - 96k trail run, which is a team event and all 4 members have to get to the finish line to be counted. The event replicates the original Kokoda Trail in Papua New Guinea which was a fierce battleground during WWII and where Aussie diggers in extreme tropical conditions stopped Japanese invasion of Australia.

Another reason was to meet some new faces of course and encourage each other.

Hope you all had a great weekend!

Ernesto, I ended up doing 4 weekly 20 mile long runs in a row along with a combination of interval and tempo runs during the week (with the last long one being yesterday's run).  This was based on a plan put together by a local coach who many of the friends that are going to the Chicago use (we are about a 100 Guatemalan's that are going to run in Chicago). 

From now on, according to the coach, I lower significantly the volume and focus more on intensity during this week and then ease down on the week of the race.  On the positive side, I believe I have been able to recover well from each of the long runs and don't feel drained during the week.  

Should I be taking it easy for the time remaining (13 days) and do you have any specific nutrition recommendations leading to the race?  Thanks!  

OK need some help with night before and morning of DIET i see the sponser of this race (i just got packett info) is  "Carabas and they are doing a carb up dinner special for the tri participants. I  never carb up ? is this the thing to do  dont really like carbs as a rule . I DO not like pasta or bread really. But if i need carbs i will do something . also in the morning worried about eating something that will make me need to go!!!! during the race. is this a stupid worry

OK, I need advice.  I am flat out exhausted.  My body aches like the flu, but I really think it's muscular.  I just want to go home and sleep.

I don't really think I've changed anything nutrition wise.  Yesterday's bike ride had the last 6 or 7 miles with a direct headwind of 20 MPH.  I didn't stay up particularly late over the last week.  I even took a few naps.

I understand that I can't really build much fitness in the next 6 days.  What should I do?

OK, I need advice.  I am flat out exhausted.  My body aches like the flu, but I really think it's muscular.  I just want to go home and sleep.

I don't really think I've changed anything nutrition wise.  Yesterday's bike ride had the last 6 or 7 miles with a direct headwind of 20 MPH.  I didn't stay up particularly late over the last week.  I even took a few naps.

I understand that I can't really build much fitness in the next 6 days.  What should I do?

As you probably know the registration for the 2012 Boston Marathon is closed. The standard (minimum to submit an application) for your AG was 3:35'00, however the slowest slot was allocated to 3:33'46" (then again, for your AG). I don't want to whip out the old crystal ball again but I'm pretty sure you can beat that time with a stick and get your entry for the 2013 Superbowl of runners.