[lLianneForbess]

Well, my training plan wouldn't include going that far regularly, I'd start smaller and be gradual, I just kind of wanted to know what I was capable of at this point. 35-40 miles weekly to train for a 26 mile run? Seems a bit overkill unless you're really trying to win the race (plenty of people are only trying to finish, I'd be with that group). I'm not sure where I heard it, but I heard that marathon level runners don't train by going the full distances every week, becuase that trashes your body, but if you've been to the boston marathon site, and thats what the stuff said, then I guess I'm quite wrong. Although, even the runners I know who do the 100-120 mile races (they don't run the whole distance) have only ever ran just under 40 miles. and if thats what you're supposed to do weekly, that doesn't seem right. One of the people I talked to did 18 marthons and 10 ultra marathons, and the farthest he ever ran was 38 miles, as part of a 50 mile race. On a side note: did you guys hear about the kid who's going to run 200 miles for charity in California? Or atleast I think it was California. That's just crazy. Was he going to run the entire thing? Oh, and my knees are just fine now that its been 48 hours, just a little soreness left is all, so I doubt I damaged them. Really I think it was the uneven surface of the snow/ice clumps on the trail that irritated them so much. In conclusion: I seemed to have failed at the whole 'working on being more concise' thing...