Week 2 went great, ending with a 9 mile run for the week.  There are no injuries to report. In general the pace for the entire week was a bit slow, but that is fine for this stage of training.  Right now the important key is being injury free. I’m very pleased with the first 2 weeks of training.  

I want to talk some about the 9 mile run.  I was running in the Smokey Mountains in Waynesville, NC.  This course was so hilly and steep that I had to walk a bit of mile 9, and I am really used to hills that I run routinely in the Shenandoah Valley.   On top of this, I made a wrong turn and went the wrong way uphill, needing a ride to the correct hill and back to the lodge.  But it was still a great training run!  Imagine training on these hills all the time.