FUNKOPOLIS POUNDING THE PAVEMENT

DISTANCE RUN TODAY (again):  2.63 miles

TOTAL THUS FAR:  49.21 miles

DISTANCE REMAINING:  10.49 miles

WHERE AM I ON "THE VIRTUAL TRAIL"?  I've managed to make my way about six miles down Route 76 E, heading closer and closer to Phildelphia.  You can almost taste the cheesesteak now!

COMMENTARY:  I went to the gym to try and make up a few miles tonight after being rained out earlier today.  I felt a little weird about going to the gym with a digital camera to take a picture of my mileage, and my watch would have read 0.0 miles, as the GPS would have seen me essentially standing still, being that I was running on the treadmill.  :)

I opted to put one of our publicity shots up tonight, which seems to look a lot better than another sweaty ole picture of me would have.

As I finish this challenge up, the Olympics are about to start, and all I can think about are the runners who will be racing in the Marathon in Athens.  Marathoners tend to like sunny, cool, dry days with temps somewhere in the 60s, maybe.  They like flat, fast courses.  Athens will easily be over 90 degrees, the humidity is outrageous, and rather than having a series of hills (like Boston's Heartbreak Hill), Athens has a hill all right... a 12-mile hill!!!  I am in awe of anyone who can complete the course given those circumstances, let alone actually compete.

More tomorrow!

tim

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