Training Goof!!!!

So, just 17 days before the marathon, I realized I am a whole week off in my training! I must have counted the weeks wrong when I looked at my training schedule. Now I have to decide if I should cut out the harder or the easier of the two weeks before the marathon. My schedule this week has me running my 20-miler this Saturday, which I will do for sure, but I am not sure what to do next week. I plan on getting plenty of rest the week of the marathon, so I might just go ahead and do the harder week next week since my body has felt great on the long runs. I ran 14.4 miles last Saturday at a 9:20 mile pace. The weather was gorgeous, I had new shoes so I was feeling pretty good. Oklahoma is making me really really nervous right now: the wind has been horrible, horrible, horrible. I am literally praying the wind away for race day. It is the only aspect dampening my spirits when I think of race day. My schedule this week is:

Tuesday: 5 miles

Wednesday: 10 miles

Thursday: 5 miles

Saturday: 20 miles

The 20 mile run will be very interesting considering I will be in Dallas/Fort Worth staying with my sister. At least I know I will have a babysitter. And I may (gasp) run on a treadmill because I won't have time to map out a 20 mile course. If only I had a Garmin.

So, Easter was awesome! I love love love our church. The music was so powerful and the message was right on. My favorite part of the message was when the pastor spoke on the logic of the Christian faith: if the writers of the gospels made up a bunch of stories with the goal of converting people and making up a new religion why are the stories (like the virgin birth and the resurrection from the grave) so hard to believe? If you wanted to trick people, at least make up stories people wouldn't question. Also, at the time the gospels were written, there were still eye witnesses alive who were at the cross and who saw Jesus after he rose. If the stories were fabricated, it would have been very easy for the eye witnesses to come forward and say, "Hey! I was there and that is not what happened!" BUT, there is no account of anyone doing so. As the Apostle Peter says, "We did not follow cleverly invented stories when we told you about the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty" (2 Peter 1:16)