This week's stats:

Box step up+down (18 inches high bench): Monday - no extra weight, just body weight - 15 minutes Saturday - no extra weight, just body weight - 25 minutes

Runs: Wednesday

Friday

Sunday

Weekly Total: 51km - 397m elevation gain

Alcohol consumption: None

How it felt this week: I tried to push for more speed for the 10k and 5k runs. Seems like I succeeded and was slightly faster than last week's 10k and 5k runs. This morning's long run felt pretty good. It was raining when I started the run, then the rain stopped about 3km into the run, but started raining again at about 27km. I originally set out to run 38km for the long run, but the rain got quite heavy and my completely soaked socks and shoes were annoying me, so I stopped the run at 36km. 2km short of my plan, good enough I guess. The good news is I felt good after the run and felt that I still had gas left in the tank. Completing the marathon wouldn't be an issue at this point. Bad news is that my pace for the long run was slow and won't be fast enough to finish the marathon in under 4hrs if I keep going at this pace. Will need to work on my speed throughout the remaining weeks, and also sustain that speed or at least don't drop off too much on the back end of the 42km run. So more endurance work and more speed work. Still hopeful and still going for it. Starting to taper next week; will probably do a 28km-30km Sunday long run instead of another 30km+ run.

Weeks before race day: 4 weeks