So, my training plan was to start fresh on Monday. Take the rest of the week to ride bikes and hang out...the usual stuff. Greg has a night ride planned at Warrior's Path tonight, but it looks like rain for most of the day and wet roots and rocks really aren't much fun. So training is starting early. I decided to text one of my running partners, Chris "Ironman" Dillow for a possible run after work. Of course he said he would! He asked me what kind of distance I wanted to do. Now that's a heckuva question. I gave it some thought and decided that somewhere around four miles was a good start. I have run a couple of 5k's in the past few years, so that's probably my max. I was talking to Chris's wife on facebook yesterday after she read my first entry and she has been training for a marathon too and said that she usually runs a specific distance and adds 12 minutes. So by that training standard, 5k (3ish miles) is my current max, plus a few extra minutes should be around four miles. I'll give that a shot.
On a related note, I went to my cousin's funeral last night. It's tough to have someone so young go through what she did. She was only six months or so younger than me. But, it was good to see a lot of my family that I don't normally get to see and to have a lot of them meet my better half for the first time. I just hate that we had to see each other under those circumstances.
Also, I may have found a marathon to run. I hear the Nashville event is a good one!
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