T-Minus 4 days

its technically tuesday, so 4 days until saturday.

Two big things happen on saturday while a large portion of the U.S. sleeps off an Independence Day-induce hangover.

The one important to cycling fans such as myself is that Le Tour starts Saturday. The field is wide open again this year. I'd make a prediction, but I'd be completely wrong. I hope SlipStream...er Garmin/Chipotle makes a good showing. No prologue this year. It'll be an interesting race. It's hard to believe its been a year since I was in London watching the opening ceremonies, the prologue, and stage 1.



The second thing, which is more important to me is that I run my first 50 miler. People keep asking how I feel. I don't really have a feeling about it yet. It still seems distant. I'm not nervous. I'm not excited. I'm not scared. I partially feel prepared and partially feel completely unprepared. All I can do is show up and run. And run. And continue to run.

Five miles tonight, but it was one of my worst runs in years. Mostly due to "stomach" issues. Seven miles tomorrow..er tonight, five on Wednesday, and three on Thursday. Then my training is complete. Early forecast is for 78 degrees and 30% chance of rain. I won't start believing the weather till around Wednesday though.