Hooray! Hypnobirthing works for marathon!

Robert ran 15 miles and walked 5 yesterday for a total of 20 miles! He's preparing for his marathon, and now it looks like he will really be able to do it.
The coolest part to me, though, is that he used the breathing and visualization techniques we've been learning in hypnobirthing. He said what he usually did was mentally yell at himself when he got hurt or wanted to stop and that just made him mad and want to quit. This time he used the breathing techniques and told himself his body was mean to do this. He also sort of used the glove relaxation. That's where you imagine you put a silver glove of endorphins on your hand and you feel it go numb and then you can pass the numbness on to parts of your body. Well, he didn't quite do that because he was running, but he imagined the areas that hurt going numb and it worked. He also said he took stock of what was going on. That he was running funny because all of these different places hurt, but really it was one spot on his foot that hurt that was making him run funny. So, he concentrated on numbing that part! I am so proud of him and I am so excited that he used the techniques and will use them when he runs the marathon! He will be an expert by the time the birth happens. Yay!