Up to 6 miles

The eyelet skipping helped quite a bit. The blister area still got hot around 6 miles though. I should say that the blister is not fully healed, which I'm sure makes it more sensitive. A fully healed blister, and a little looser lacing, and I think I'm all set.

I also GU'd for the first time. Wow, that's interesting stuff. I had chocolate. It's basically about twice as thick as peanut butter, and tastes like chocolate pudding (sort of). You swish a big gloop of this stuff in your mouth, take a big swig of water, swish it around until you can swallow it, and do it again until the packet is empty. It definitely gives you a boost of energy.

5 weeks until the race. I'm looking good at this point (knock on wood).