The last time I ran 18 miles it was the 30K Crossroads of America in late summer 2009. I finished that race last and I was glad to have finished. Today I was happy to finish my training run. There is a long way between 18 and 26.2 though and while I think I can finish, it will likely be a very slow marathon. My training runs are within the window for long run pace for my goal time, but I just don't know that I will be going any faster on race day. But maybe...just maybe. Today's weather was good in the sense that it wasn't actively raining most of the time so I did get to run outside instead of doing 144 laps of the indoor track at the Monon Center. But it was a tad chilly when the wind blew (probably could have used a long sleeve shirt and gloves) and not great for the 10 minutes it did rain. But I got to run outside. Along the way I saw several Indy Runners people out for their Saturday morning run, said "hi" to Monon Bob twice, talked to Erika Wells and m