28 Weeks till 26.2

Saturday, January 10, 2009

I signed up for the San Francisco Marathon on July 26th. I've been talking for several months about wanting to eventually do a marathon and it slowly and steadily dawned on me that now is the best time to do one. I'm in a great city for training (for any race...hello, hills!), I'm surrounded by seasoned runners and athletes, I'm learning new things everyday due to See Jane Run, and I'm probably in the best shape of my life (thus far). I knew that, unless I gave myself a goal to work toward, I'd never actually build the necessary mileage.

So I'm scared and I'm excited and I'm confident and I'm anxious.

And I think I'll use this blog to log my training: my successes and failures, my aches and pains, my emotional highs and lows, and just my general thoughts. In my limited time as a runner, I've noticed that running paves the way for very interested thought rabbit trails. Maybe I'll share some with you, reader.

In the meantime, stay tuned for my running shenanigans retold.

Training starts tomorrow.

(P.S. Above is a picture of me warming up (literally) for the only race I've run thus far: the Chilly Chili 5k in Chittenango, NY, last February.)