3 Days and 15 Hours from now, I'll be on the starting line for the Marathon race, beginning in Marathon, and ending in the reconstruction of the ancient Olympic stadium in the Athenian City Center. I've been training for this since the Monday after Spring Break and am so antsy it pains me to be sitting here typing. I've been on a two week "taper" now and am feeling strong, healthy, and ready to go. It's kind of an interesting feeling though unlike anything I've ever prepared for because, for instance, in track, if I ran the 400, I practiced running the 400, the same with swimming events. But, the marathon training I did capstoned with a 20 mile run, a whole 26 miles less than what I'll be doing on Sunday. I think it just makes it all the more exciting.

     This week has been pretty low key. Lots of pasta and relaxing, along with mental preparing. I'm getting better at Latin. It's been neat to translate Cicero - I'm not doing any big literary works, but paragraphs; however, they're getting bigger and more complex. Above: The entrance to the Roman Agora in Athens made to resemble the Parthenon, however, the Romans apparently are bad at following ratios.

     I have decided to put together my own Monon Bell tailgate in Athens for some of the students here to share a little bit of that Wabash pride with them. It should be fun. I was hoping to find some scrap wood and all to maybe assemble some corn hole sets, but we'll see how that goes. I can feel the excitement building from here.