I once heard that you are 70% more likely to accomplish a goal when you write it down and I've tried this practice for the last several years with some success. It wasn't until last year that I decided to set deadlines on achieving my goals. One of those deadlines is to finish a marathon by May 11, 2011, my 30th birthday.
Why now?
It seems as more and more marathoners have been entering my life recently. Most influential is my father. To date he has run ten marathons in his quest to run a race in every state. I started feeling a bit ashamed that someone that was almost twice as old as me was able to achieve a goal that to this point I've only talked about.
If I was going to reach this goal I wanted two of the most inspirational people in my life to be there with me. Sam, my amazing and supportive husband, has agreed to take on this challenge with me. And of course my dad will be next to me at the starting when the gun fires.
Running in a marathon with my dad has actually created the first of what I'm sure to be many challenges. Since my dad has decided to run fifty marathons he understandably does not want to add another just for the sake of running alongside his willful daughter. Because of this I need to find a race that will give us enough time to train will not be cost prohibitive to travel to and is in a state that my dad has not run yet.
The result? On May 16th we will be running the Delaware Marathon in Wilmington, DE.
It's just shy of twenty weeks to the race and I plan to use the training guide provided by The Non-Runner's Marathon Trainer by Whitsett, Dolgener and Kole. This blog will be a record of the challenges and accomplishments of this journey.
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