The Best Laid Plans

It occurred to me last night that if I want to run a marathon this December I'll have to start running with an eye toward that in the next month or so (readers my remember that I ran a half marathon last December (1:52:57)). Well, I've been thinking about running the full marathon version this year. Of course I don't want to stink up the place too much and would only be interested if I thought I could get into shape to run a 4:00 or better. The catch is that there's really no way to gauge whether I might expect that sort of run without doing a month or so of marathon-prep-type, which, since I've been riding my bike more, isn't as appealing as it might be.

I pondered this a bit over a New Orleans breakfast of champions, but I probably won't really know what I want to do until after I get back from traveling in a few weeks (details to follow) and all my regular semester duties start up again.