I am a Marathoner!

It's commitment time and I have decided to do a marathon! I have wanted to run a marathon for quite some time now. Sometimes I would make excuses about why I wouldn't want to run a marathon because of what it would do to my knees, feet, body, etc. so I would rationalize why I wouldn't ever run that far. But deep down inside, I still really wanted to do it. Then a friend of mine mentioned how her college roomate was going to start training for the Salt Lake City marathon and ever since that day I haven't stopped thinking about it. So, I found a book called "The Non-Runner's Marathon Trainer" and it is perfect for me! It is a book that is specifically for people you are not avid runner's and who don't care about fininshing in a specific time. I ordered the book from amazon.com and received it the first week in January. I looked at the training schedule and it was a 16 week program. I looked up the date for the Salt Lake City Marathon-- April 19th -- 16 weeks away and thought, I'm going to try for it and see what happens. Well, I'm now in week 9 and loving it! It has been a great experience thus far and I decided this weekend to commit. One of the things the book tells you to do, is let people know that you are doing a marathon (thus this post) and start telling people, "I am a marathoner". I thought it would be fun to post my thoughts about the trainings each week. The chapter on Week 9 says this is the hardest week for alot of people in the training so we'll see how it goes!! This week I do 4 miles, 7 miles, 4 miles and a long run of 16 miles. Here goes week nine!!!!