Bionic Teutonic

I’ve decided to run the Seattle Marathon this year. My friend Jesse mentioned he was starting to train for it a couple weeks ago, and I’ve been mulling over whether to join him for the last couple weeks. I went out and bought a book about marathon training and scoped out what the training program would look like and now feel like it’s an achievable goal. I’ve wanted to run a marathon since I was a kid, and this seems like a good excuse to carry through on it. I’ll be following the Chicago plan, which alternates hard and easy weeks and gradually increases you top mileage until you do the final 20 mile training run before the marathon. When I look at the distances on the chart, they feel a little daunting at this point. So far, I’ve only done a 6 mile run as my longest, and I was oddly sore after that. Not in my legs, but in my upper back and neck for some reason. I think the jarring motion of running on pavement is the main thing I’ll have to get used to, because while I’m in relatively decent shape, my body still needs to get accustomed to running for that long. We’ll see how this all goes. I’m feeling relatively good about it, but sometimes I wonder why on earth something like this even appeals to me. If I actually end up making it to the finish line, I’m think a nice, long massage will be in order.

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