4 miles of semi-hilly terrain with the sun setting. The temperature was around 85 degrees, and it was humid outside. I did interval training and continued with my plan to run intervals of a mile with a two minute break in between. Each day, I am increasing the amount of laps by one mile, and I plan to do so indefinitely until I get to the half-marathon mark (around 14 laps, I'll round up the number). My goal is to run each of these laps at least under 9 minutes for the time being. I would like to be close to my goal of reaching one mile times under 7:21 because my qualifying time for the Boston Marathon would be under 3:16. So far, I have only run a marathon in 4:26 minutes or so (the Richmond Marathon). The upcoming marathon I am training for will be on the 11th of November in the Outer Banks. It is a qualifying marathon for the Boston Marathon. Today, I ran 4 laps with an average time of 8:30. I will have to cut this time by one minute. I am going to have to try to run at a different time of day tomorrow. It would be best to run in the night because it was hot outside, and the sun was very strong. I need to run faster and must concentrate on running faster. It would also be good if I lost some weight. I have gained 6 pounds since my last marathon, and I now weigh 175 pounds, which is slightly overweight (I am 5'9). | 