This is going to be a super short post today because I am busy preparing a whole bunch of other great posts for next week.

Today we completed our last long run before the marathon! Our three hour, 24.5 km run marked the end of the hard training which means… it’s taper time!

As one of our coaches pointed out today, we’ve made it. I have been so focused on the actual race that I hadn’t really thought about it like that. We’ve been working our butts off for almost eight months and seeing where we are now compared to where we started is shocking . Today we did a three hour run like it was no big deal and that’s not something to take for granted.

As of tomorrow the marathon will be exactly two weeks away and it’s still a little hard to believe that it’s actually happening.

This morning we took a few minutes to celebrate with some Hawaiian pumpkin cake (the name of which I can’t remember) thanks to Robert! Mmmm cake. cake1cake2

P.S. Apparently there are a few people on the team who don’t know how to take a serious cake-eating picture 😉