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Thanks! 26.2 miles, so not too bad for a bike ride. I remember when I used to do 40 miles through the hills like it was nothing. This one only has two inclines, not even hills by the standards around here. But finishing it with a good time will be the challenge, since I tend to be a bit slow (my average speed is only 15 mph).

Yes that sounds reasonable!! Hope it goes well for you! x

It's a mostly flat marathon along the beach (but not in the sand at all).

Wooohooo, I wish you success to that marathon! I'm a biker myself, and enjoy mostly cross-country and downhill, but I've never compete in a marathon, even though it sounds like fun (and tiredness). I like the way you say "used to do 40 miles through the hills like it was nothing", it's a performance I'm looking forward to reach. I'll be on a trip in the near future to the mountains, 70-80 miles far from my town. It's gonna be pretty neat, especially because we'll be camping in the woods and probably hunt, fish or gather our food, some kind of survival scenarios .

Oh that sounds awesome! Hope you have a lot of fun!

I used to use my bicycle as transportation back before I could afford a car. It was amazing what kind of shape I was in. I could eat absolutely anything I wanted to and you couldn't even get fat to stick to me. I used to ride about 100 miles a week, sometimes more. I was never a very fast rider, but I could always get to wherever I needed to be.

Then I bought a car about 5 years ago and got totally out of shape. I've been trying to pick up my pace lately though, so now I'm up to 20 minutes where I ride at a constant 20 mph. After that I start slowing down again. If I can't maintain the higher speed for at least an hour by the time I get to the marathon, I'll just shoot for my 15 mph normal average speed so that I don't risk not finishing. Otherwise, if I can go for an hour at 20mph then I know I can go the whole time at around that speed.

Wow, you sure were addicted to cycling! 200 miles IS alot. For me, fat isn't a problem, actually I have to exercise so I won't get thinner:D (my metabolism works at the speed of sound). Anyway, I really don't think that cars will replace cycling in my case, because it has become a passion. And in a rush hour traffic, it has become a necessity

Here the traffic is really bad in a lot of places, but then it's usually so bad that I'm afraid to use the bicycle instead.

Although, before I even started running for fun/exercise, my brother was graduating high school and I was stuck in traffic. I finally get there with not much time to spare, but there is no parking left! I ended up having to drive back to my house, and then run all the way there (it seems like before I only would run if I had to, but it was still killing me to run 3 miles back then when I wasn't used to running). I barely got there in time, and then my parents yelled at me for forgetting my camera. Oops. At least they had their camera though.

I think once I do this marathon I'll still continue cycling. It's pretty fun.

Hehe, that's pretty funny. Well, you know what they say, just keep on rolling

Thanks! I'm starting to think this should be really fun. I'm going to go on a semi-long practice ride Monday morning to see how I'm doing now as far as being in shape.