BONK!!! :(
The first of many back posts! 
Well, it was a perfect storm of stupidity for me today. The half marathon is a week from today. I’m trying to save some cash and forgoing my trip to Virginia Beach to participate in the Rock and Roll Half Marathon on Labor Day weekend. Instead, I’m running a half marathon closer to home. A lot closer. As in the starting line is across the street from my front door. 
Unfortunately, that puts the half marathon about 3 months earlier than normal. 
So with a lot less training, and a lot more weight under my belt, I tried to run a practice half today, 13.1 miles. I barely got 8 before I gave up.
I was up to 4AM the night before working on my %$#@!&* computer. I hate XP. Anyway, I got up at 8 to IM with lovely girlfriend. , then went back to bed and slept to 2. Then I got up, ate some cereal and a short time later, tried to go running.
Between the weird sleep cycle, the eating too soon, and running at the hottest part of the day (oh yeah, we went directly from winter to summer here in New England, again), I just couldn’t pull it out. So now I’m going to have to run 3.1 miles past my max this coming Sunday. I may just take this last week off to rest and ward off injury my ankles aren’t feeling too good.
I still plan to run the race on June 1, even if I have to cross the finish line on my elbows.
As captain Kirk said, “May fortune favor the foolish.”