Still Alive

Its been a couple months since I made my last post, but I am still alive and still training. Training has been progressing well--I haven't made a true training schedule, but I've been continuing my 3 day a week lifting routine and doing 3 days of cardio. I've been running 10 miles on Saturday mornings and ran 13.1 last weekend; I felt energetic enough to go another few miles, but I stopped because it was quite hot and I was worried about my hydration. I ended up going out for a 10 mile bike ride later that day. I also did a "sprint" triathlon over the course of a few hours on a different day. My brother and I went biking for a bout 17 miles and decided to go swimming afterward. I ended up swimming about 750m so I figured I'd finish off my backward triathlon by running a lap around Lake Calhoun which just a bit over 3 miles. My legs felt a bit odd running right after the swim, but I still made miles just under 9 minutes. My toes have stayed healthy during the last few months thanks to running in my sandals; my sprained ankle has progressed slowly, but it is not bothering me much. It looks like all systems to go do some runs of 15 miles+ over the next couple months and look for that four hour marathon time. My half marathon time last weekend was 2 hours 3 minutes but I wasn't pushing hard at all because I thought I might go for 16-20 miles.