Seven & Seven

7-7...There are 77 days until the Boston Marathon.  Yup, I counted and now have an ongoing count-down.  After being out a bit with a sore foot, I did my first workout today.  It was an eight mile cut-down, just to get in a little faster running and see where I was at.  It's a good introductory workout and I have some past results (although not on this course) to compare it to.  I typically stuggle a bit with cut-downs, so it was a good tester, too.  It went well and I enjoyed doing it.  It was appropriately hard and I'll have to see how the course goes next time (to get a better baseline for effort vs. pace), since it rolled quite a bit with a couple of decent hills.  I enjoyed some orange hammer gel post workout/pre-cool-down to hasten the recovery....mmmmmm.