The good news is that I have successfully completed my four-month warmup and am ready to begin the Bingham 20-week program to walking/running the marathon. The conclusion of the warmup means I can walk/run up to 7+ miles without difficulty.

The next two months will be interesting in that I depart in the morning for Fort Lauderdale to start covering Nordhavn Atlantic Rally 2004 for the new magazine Power Cruising as well as for next winter's bi-annual Circumnavigator. See Summer Adventure on the links at right.

I'll be crewing on three different boats on the three legs of the rally, Fort Lauderdale to Bermuda, Bermuda to Azores, and Azores to Gibraltar. Since we'll stop over in each port for a week, I should be able to get in at least my long runs just about every week. When we are at sea, of course, running will not be possible on the relatively small motorboats I'll be aboard.
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