Just a few quick words from a Holiday Inn Express in Dallas, Texas for the night.

A long day of travel but rather relaxing and fun as well.  After running 26.2 miles almost anything is fun including dealing with airlines in the U.S.

Overall I feel pretty good today. I realized this afternoon that my right ankle is sprained pretty good. I think that happened on about mile 16-17.  My knees feel a lot better than they did last night or the last half of the marathon.  They are still weak but better.  The only other injury update is just general muscle fatigue and soreness mostly in the lower legs and shoulder/back of the neck region.

It looks like I will only lose, at most, 1-2 toenails this time.  I lost all 10 toenails after the first marathon I ran back in 2004.  I lost 2-3 from the second marathon. So what can I say? I am improving!

When I get back to the office, probably Wednesday morning, I am going to try to write a bit about the marathon and post some pre-race and post-race photos hopefully.

Thanks to everyone who has sent me kind and thoughtful emails or Facebook messages.

Philippians 4:11-13

PS: Has anyone else come across the cool College Football Pop Tarts?  Well they got me. I didn’t even want Pop Tarts but I was at the store and saw that they had College Football logos on them and I had to get them.  So far I have eaten LSU, Georgia, Texas Tech and Texas.