Club Marathon

Kelly and I attended our first marathon training "class" last night. We quickly found out we are a little behind in our training, but nothing we cannot overcome. They handed out running schedules and it was eye opening to see what was in front of us. The nice part is, we now have a plan to follow. The trick will be following the plan.

Last night's class consisted of a 5.5 mile run in the sweltering heat and humidity followed up by critiquing running forms of the people who were at last week's class. The run was pretty difficult for a number of reasons, but mainly becasuse of the heat and because of our lapse in training. This coming Saturday our group is running 8 miles and we start at 6:45 in the AM. All of our long weekend training runs that are coming up are early on Saturdays. This is going to cause a drastic Friday night lifestyle change for the next 3 months, which I am more than a little nervous about. As it turns out, I really like beer which isn't condusive for training.

The great part about the group is that there is more support than doing it on your own or even with one other person. It also forces us to train by going to class. The class also will have different people talk each week and they will cover different topics from nutrition to they type of gear you need. Another great part about the class is that there doesn't seem to by any psycho runners in the group. Everyone seems pretty normal and the pace last night was very managable.

Saturday will mark the longest training run of the summer and I will check in after that if my body allows it.