A week ago last Saturday I successfully got in my nineteen-mile training run with the Premier Sports Marathoner in Training (MIT) group, and this last Saturday I successfully got in my twenty-mile run. On Friday I leave for New Orleans, and on Sunday I will run the Mardi Gras Half Marathon. By that time it will already be February, and I’ll only have seven weeks until the Tokyo Marathon in March. In February I have runs of twenty, twenty-two, and twenty-four miles planned, so it will be a busy month. Because nobody else I know is training for the Tokyo Marathon, I’ve had to run a lot of miles by myself so far. I expect that will be the case in February as well.

Tags: marathon, marathons, Tokyo Marathon, Mardi Gras Half Marathon, running