Not the training week I wanted, but still made a huge step

Dear James, Daniel and Emily,

So my stomach problem was still affecting me enough that I did not run Tuesday morning. Which means I will be going into the race on Saturday with only 1 real run in over a week. The positive is I should at least have fresh legs. But I would still have felt better having done a real long run Sunday followed by at least a 6 mile on Tuesday. But you know what? That's all good, I will still tackle the race, and if I end up running real slow and/or walk some of the 10 miles it will not be the end of the world, the primary goal is to finish with a reasonable time, and then use that as the spring board for my next step: Half Marathon.

Today is Day 1 without Diet Soda in the morning. I had what should be my last Diet Pepsi yesterday morning. Just to clarify I am not saying I will never drink a diet soda again, just that I am ending my habit of drinking them all the time, and ending that as my crutch. The thing about the diet soda is that they don't lead to weigh gain necessarily (unless you use them as an excuse to get that extra large serving of french fries). But they also don't help lose weight either. So I hate to think of how big I would have gotten had I not developed a taste for diet soda at an early age. But years of diet soda didn't exactly help me lose the weight either. Either way I am breaking that habit, tea is good, either cold unsweetened or hot when the weather calls for it.