{"id":515,"date":"2008-09-02T04:00:46","date_gmt":"2008-09-02T09:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/?p=515"},"modified":"2008-09-01T10:38:34","modified_gmt":"2008-09-01T15:38:34","slug":"august-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2008\/august-highlights\/","title":{"rendered":"August Highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I can’t believe that it is already September.\u00a0 The summer has flown by and school is getting ready to start back up.\u00a0 Yikes! I think I joined with everybody else out there in throwing off my sleep schedule to watch the Olympics – including an amazing marathon performance, lots of new world records, and some great examples of the true Olympic spirit<\/a>. Watching the Olympics raised the question in my mind, do I have what it takes<\/a>?\u00a0 Despite adding on 4 more weeks of marathon training I doubt I’ll run anywhere close to a 2:06, at least not for the full distance anyways.\u00a0 Weeks 9<\/a> 10<\/a> 11<\/a> 12<\/a> are all in the bag.\u00a0 I’ve now run increased my longest run ever to about 21 miles and I’ve done the distance twice now!<\/p>\n

When I wasn’t busy increasing my long runs I threw in some races.\u00a0 I almost got a 10K PR while running the Hennepin Lakes Classic<\/a>.\u00a0 I managed to get a 15K PR two weeks later in the MDRA 15K<\/a>.\u00a0 Two weeks and a 20 miler later I set a new PR in the half-marathon distance, by a minute and a half at the Rochester Half Marathon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’ve been meeting and getting to know a lot of runners through a tool called Twitter<\/a>.\u00a0 It has been a fun way to connect and share about running and other random bit of life.\u00a0 I even introduced the idea of tagging runs<\/a> in Twitter so we can see each other’s better.<\/p>\n

I am almost a 1\/4 of the way to my goal for raising $2,000 to support the great work of World Vision<\/a> around the world.\u00a0 This month’s related posts included:<\/p>\n