Putting the 'finishing' touches on the Run University Training Journal - yes it's going to be an old fashioned 'book' with select excerpts from the Book of Dan and pages (dated) to enter info about your daily run. I know it seems dinosaur 'ish' in this computer age, but so what? If your computer crashes all that stuff is gone! Plus it's easier for ME to look back in a journal to see what I did, flip through pages if I need to look around that date or check on mileage....anyway, hopefully it'll be out around Labor Day - We are in week 1 (day 2 is tomorrow) of Runner's Boot Camp and I actually am enjoying (for lack of a better phrase) a back log of coaching (i.e. waiting list). I keep reminding myself in this heat/humidity how MUCH I hated the cold. It helps me while I'm sweating like a horse pulling a wagon out there. If sweat is "fat cells crying" then my fat cells are just watched a double feature of 'Old Yeller' and 'Love Story'....something like 'Marley and Me' and 'Message in a Bottle' for you youngsters, only you need twice as many tissues for 'Old Yeller'....saw it when I was like 5 and I'm scarred for LIFE! Fall schedule is taking shape and that means my training schedule better START taking shape! It's looking like Omaha Marathon in September, Flying Monkey in November, Thunder Road in December and TARGET ONE - Houston Marathon in January. All the others will just be long training runs - Houston the goal is <3:40. I like for each run to have a purpose, Omaha will just be for the distance, get my legs under me and be prepared to run 26.2 miles, get some strength and get my body used to marathon distance 'fuel' wise. Flying Monkey on one hand will be for strength, on the other hand...survival. That is one tough course....yowza! It's in Nashville at Percy Warner Park - if you're familiar then you know...if you're not...well if ever there was a case that ignorance is bliss.....this is it! It is beautiful though; what I remember through the tears. Charlotte will be a negative split/specific training run for Houston. The first half I'll plan to run in 'X' with the 2nd half faster. It'll be a measure of fitness and training. If all goes well, great! If not, I've got 6 weeks to get the gremlins out of the system. Now the's time! Make a plan for the Fall and use it to get you on track...Montgomery Half in October, Vulcan Run in November - there's stuff to look toward. Don't press your pace right now, just run. Hot or not, each run fast or slow build strength - muscular and aerobically. Like the yankee general, Gen. McDowall said to his troops as the retreated during the Battle of Bull Run....."Keep running!"