I postponed the long run until today. My "cardio" was very good today and I wasn't even very tired after the run. But, I did attempt a pretty fast pace and realized how hard it is to break the 3 hour mark for a marathon. I ran 8.76 miles today according to my Garmin Forerunner. I didn't pick that distance--it's the round-trip distance from my place to the marina on Elliot Bay. My average pace was 6:52 minutes per mile. If I had continued running at that exact distance I would have finished the marathon in 3:00:02! Great, right? No, because I only ran 1/3 of a marathon and to keep up that pace would have been very difficult for me. So, with 6 days to go, I'm not sure how I'll do. I will try to beat my last marathon time of ~3:14.

I finally turned on the automatic lap timer for every mile ran (I didn't turn it on until .24 miles into the run):

Lap 1: .241 miles; avg. pace: 9:33/mi
Lap 2: 1.00 miles; pace: 7:17/mi
Lap3: "" 6:48/mi
Lap 4: 6:58/mi
Lap 5: 6:43/mi
Lap 6: 6:53/mi
Lap 7: 6:21/mi
Lap 8: 6:56/mi
Lap 9: 6:24/mi
Lap 10: .523 mi; pace: 6:52/mi

Total: 8.76mi Run; 6:52/mi pace; 1020 cal.; 143 lb.