And The Winners of the Sony Walkman Players Are.....

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The Sony Walkman giveaway has drawn to a close and it is time to pick the winners.  Random.org was once again close at hand to pick the winners.  I promoted this giveaway both online and also at the local running group.  I was excited to see that when the winners were chosen that there was a winner from the blogger community and another one from the local running group.

Don't forget that if you are not one of the two winners you still can get your very own Sony Walkman MP3 Player at a discount by going to www.sony.com/runningmate.

Win A Sony Walkman

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Nearly a year ago I was contacted with the opportunity to review the new at the time Sony W Series Walkman® MP3 Player and give one away to my readers.  I will not go back over all the details, but if you would like to read what my review was you can visit the review post and see what I thought about it.

A few months later I was once again contacted.  This time they were offering to sponsor me in an upcoming marathon which I was quick to accept.  I ran the Soldier Marathon, my second marathon, last November wearing their shirt but not wearing the MP3 player on race day since I believe running a race is so much more enjoyable when you take the time to get to know those running around you.

Sometimes 20 Miles Is More Mental Than Physical

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I am not ready to get into a debate on whether physical or mental wins out more, but yesterday my 20 mile run was more of a mental challenge than it was a physical challenge.  Please don't read this the wrong way - I am not by any stretch saying is was physically easy, I am just saying that physically it was a done deal, but mentally I didn't want to even start because I just knew I was going to fail.

Three weeks ago I ran my first 19 miler of this marathon training schedule.  It was a challenge, but I don't remember thinking that I wouldn't make it (maybe I have already forgotten)  During that run around 13 miles I started to feel a tightness in my left calf.  I continued my run paying close attention to make sure it didn't get any worse.  It turned out to be the wrong decision and I should have quit at the first sign of something not being right.  (you can read more about it here) After all was said and done I ended up with two weeks of a lot of rest...... right in the middle of marathon training!  Not only was it right in the middle of marathon training, but was the two weeks around what was supposed to be my first 20 mile run, as well as the two weeks leading up to my mid-training half marathon race, the 13.1 Atlanta.

Sony is sponsoring me in my upcoming marathon!

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The past few weeks have been a whirlwind and so this post and announcement with all it's details is way overdue.  Lately my blog posts have been limited to modified versions of what was posted to my running log, or time sensitive posts that I felt were important enough to lose sleep over like my two daughter's recent XC time trial.

We all know what time of year it is, time for school to start, time for the kids sports to kick into the full on fall training, and of course marathon training.  All three of these have hit me harder this year then ever before, especially with both of my daughters running Cross Country this fall, and my son playing Football for the first time on the 9 year old team.  Looking at their schedules makes my marathon training schedule look like child's play. :)