Having the Humongo Nation tour smack dab in the middle of a marathon training schedule was a challenge. Two reasons:

1. Diet.

The cool thing about being on tour is that once you approach a new city, everyone starts tweeting things like "you MUST go to Kane's Doughnuts." and "You have to make a stop at Sublime Doughnuts." One of the things that you learn on tour is that there are must visit doughnut places, bbq places, mexican, burrito, seafood and chicken sandwich places. There's a ton of "once in a lifetime" food opportunities across our land.

Sampling local food awesomery is a part of tour life. So much so, that we even created a blog for it. By the end of the second week, I was full. Truthfully, I was full after the first day - but there were places that we had to eat at.

2. Running.

Didn't exactly have a lot of time for this. We were working from 7am till as late as you can stay up on most days, which doesn't leave time for much running. And on Friday night, we deserved adult beverages, which doesn't leave me in the best condition for running on Saturday mornings. I don't drink much, so when I do....well, it doesn't work your body like Gatorade does.

My normal schedule has me running four days/week, with at least one long run, usually on a Saturday. I was lucky to get four runs in total during tour. Each under 6 miles.

The cool thing was that I've planned for this. I've even built two recovery weeks into my schedule, which is good. I'm back on a regular schedule again, but I'm nowhere near the runner that I was two weeks ago. Looking forward to getting back to where I was.

Oh, and if you're ever in Maine, New Hampshire, Massachussets, New York, Washington DC, North Carolina, Georgia or Florida - I've got a place that you just must eat at.

As always, feel free to make a donation to the American Heart Association as payment for my bad eating habits, or for my entry into the marathon. Can't do this without you.